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Belitung in September

sweet spot · the best month to go · the warmest month of the year

The year in Belitung

Tap a month for its page

  1. Belitung in January: avoid
  2. Belitung in February: ok
  3. Belitung in March: ok, busy
  4. Belitung in April: avoid
  5. Belitung in May: avoid
  6. Belitung in June: ok
  7. Belitung in July: sweet spot
  8. Belitung in August: good, busy
  9. Belitung in September: sweet spot
  10. Belitung in October: avoid
  11. Belitung in November: avoid
  12. Belitung in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
September at Belitung is 31°C by day and 24°C at night, with 7 rainy days and about 10 hours of sun a day. 31C max, 7 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low24°C
Feels like, afternoon35°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more7 · 117 mm
Humidity79%
Sunshine9.5 h/day
Daylight12.1 h/day
Days over 35°C1
Beach and sea22 of 30 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 29 °C, warm good
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Tanjung Pandan, the island's town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

September: about usual. Busiest in August, October and November; quietest in May and June.

Belitung in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 7 or so rainy days.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 79%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 127 / 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Rupiah. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Indonesia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Belitung: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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