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Raja Ampat in May

Warm and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Raja Ampat is warm, around 81°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about six days a week, less often as the month goes on, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 6 minutes.May in Raja Ampat is warm, around 27°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about six days a week, less often as the month goes on, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 6 minutes.

Typical
81°F27°Caverage
Wet days
6a week · 84% of days
Daylight
12h 06mon average

Is May a good time to visit Raja Ampat?

A good month, just outside Raja Ampat's best months, which run from June to September.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 81°F in May, against 80°F to 81°F through the year.Around 27°C in May, against 27°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

84% of days in May, against 67% to 86% through the year.

Cloud cover

76% cover in May, against 74% to 79% through the year.

Daylight

12h 06m in May, against 12h 05m to 12h 09m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. April81°27°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. May81°27°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  3. June80°27°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.

Where Raja Ampat sits, in May

Asia/Jayapura
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:11 AMsets 6:16 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
0.6°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Rote Ndao1443 km south-west

The land around Raja Ampat, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Indonesia in May

typical · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Raja Ampat

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Raja Ampat sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.