Climate
Banda Aceh features a tropical rainforest climate under the Köppen climate classification, with near constant average temperatures. The city annual average temperature is 27 degrees Celsius and most days in Banda Aceh hovers around this mark. However, the city features wetter and drier seasons, with June through August being the driest months of the year. Like all cities with a tropical rainforest climate, Banda Aceh does not have a true dry season month; a month where less than 60 mm of precipitation falls on average. The city experiences on average a little less than 2000 mm of precipitation annually.
| Climate data for Banda Aceh | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 27.01 (80.62) |
26.88 (80.38) |
27.02 (80.64) |
27.30 (81.14) |
27.89 (82.20) |
27.99 (82.38) |
27.76 (81.97) |
27.76 (81.97) |
27.12 (80.82) |
26.72 (80.10) |
26.54 (79.77) |
26.86 (80.35) |
27.238 (81.028) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 256 (10.08) |
114 (4.49) |
117 (4.61) |
139 (5.47) |
143 (5.63) |
84 (3.31) |
95 (3.74) |
90 (3.54) |
161 (6.34) |
200 (7.87) |
225 (8.86) |
321 (12.64) |
1,945 (76.57) |
| Avg. rainy days | 8.5 | 5.9 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 12.4 | 10.3 | 9.2 | 10.6 | 12.5 | 15.5 | 14.3 | 12.7 | 128.5 |
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