Weather in Jakarta in November

Shoulder season. November sits in between. You will get good days and you will lose some. You should expect rain on 27 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

November ranks 10 of 12 — near the bottom of Jakarta's year. August is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 23 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 27 of the month's 30 days, 6 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Pack for 30.2 °C days and 26.1 °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: 16 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 4.1 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest November day reached 33.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 24.2 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 65 mm — roughly 33% of the month's rain in one day.

November is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest November on record still delivered 330 mm against 81 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 198 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.

Wind is light at 7.5 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 November sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.8 °C in October, 30.2 here, 29.4 in December. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 7 days more than October had.

Daylight in November

Jakarta sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.4 hours in November, against a range of just 0.7 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 29.8 °C in November — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.9 °C in May and bottoms out at 28.6 °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

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

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

November in Jakarta versus nearby

If Jakarta is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bandung is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.5 °C cooler, 2 days less rain. Bandar Lampung is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 7 days less rain.

So: November is a compromise. August is 20 points better and is what Jakarta is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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