Weather in Labuan Bajo in July

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, July is the one. Highs average 29.7 °C, lows 23.7 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

July is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is August, and the month at the other end of the year is November.

Rain falls on only 5 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Pack for 29.7 °C days and 23.7 °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: 12 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 31.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 21.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 27 mm — roughly 82% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. July rainfall has ranged from 2 mm to 140 mm across the twenty years measured — a 138 mm spread around an average of 33 mm. The average is real but almost no individual July looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 4.3 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 74%.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 29.5 °C in June, 29.7 here, 30.5 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

Labuan Bajo sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in July, 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 27.9 °C in July — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. The sea peaks at 29.8 °C in April and bottoms out at 27.5 °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

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

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

July in Labuan Bajo versus nearby

If Labuan Bajo is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Makassar is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Denpasar is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days more rain.

So: July is the answer for Labuan Bajo. If it is booked out or priced out, August is the next best thing at 2 points behind, and November is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Labuan Bajo

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