Best time to visit Padang

Padang has no real season. The best month scores 47 and the worst 43, a spread of just 4 points, so the honest answer to "when should I go" is whenever the flights are cheapest. The good window runs January to December — 12 months within ten points of the best.

May is the warmest month at 30.4 °C and December the coolest at 29.4 °C — a 1 °C spread across the year. 185 days a year top 30 °C, more than a third of the calendar, so heat is the baseline here rather than a season.

There is a real wet season here. March, April, October, November and December carry the rain — up to 27 wet days in a month — while February, June, July and August drop as low as 19. That 8-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Padang, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight barely moves: about 12.2 hours whatever the month, which removes one variable from the decision entirely.

The three strongest months are January, December, February. The one to think twice about is May. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Padang month by month