Weather in Denpasar in October

A good month. October works. It is not the peak, but nothing about it fights you. Highs average 31.5 °C, lows 24.9 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 5 of 12 in Denpasar: past the worst of the year but short of August, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 9 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 31.5 °C days and 24.9 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 28 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 35.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 22.5 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 54 mm — roughly 95% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. October rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 236 mm across the twenty years measured — a 236 mm spread around an average of 57 mm. The average is real but almost no individual October looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 5 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 79%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How October sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.1 °C in September, 31.5 here, 31.7 in November. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: November brings 9 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in October

Denpasar sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.3 hours in October, against a range of just 1 hour across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 27.1 °C in October — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.2 °C in March and bottoms out at 25.7 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Shoulder. The value months — prices ease off and you get the place closer to itself.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

October in Denpasar versus nearby

If Denpasar is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Surabaya is the weaker option in October — 2.2 °C warmer, 1 day more rain. Labuan Bajo is the weaker option in October — within a degree on temperature, 6 days more rain.

So: October is a compromise. August is 19 points better and is what Denpasar is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

Every month in Denpasar

See all twelve months in Denpasar, or where else to go in October.