Uluwatu weather by month
The best time to visit Uluwatu is July to September — 89/100 in July, 27°C and 18 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, April to November (87/100 on average).
The worst month is January at 67/100 — warm, soaked, clean air. See January →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Indonesia →
Best season: April to November (87/100 on average) · worst January (67/100)
- Days
- 27°C
- Nights
- 25°C
- Wet days
- 18
- Sun
- 10.9 h
- Humidity
- 73%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Uluwatu, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Uluwatu is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Uluwatu through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
- March
- Lebaran holiday peak20–24 MarHoliday
- Nyepi5 Mar – 5 Apr (usually)Closure
- April
- Dry-season surf1 Apr – 31 Oct (usually)Season
- June
- Australian winter school holidays25 Jun – 20 Jul (usually)Holiday
- August
- Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang1–31 Aug (usually)Festival
- November
- Wet season1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually)Season
- December
- Christmas and New Year peak18 Dec – 5 JanHoliday
Crowds in Uluwatu in July
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Peak crowdsDry-season surf, Australian winter school holidays, Mid-year break in Indonesia(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Uluwatu
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Uluwatu-forum and surf-guide threads on July agree it's the peak of the low-rain season and the peak of the swell: the year's biggest groundswells arrive this month, reliable SE trade winds blow offshore into the Bukit Peninsula's west-facing breaks every morning, and rainfall runs among its lowest totals of the year. The trade-off is crowding - the lineup itself is described as resembling a small city by mid-month, though most surfers call the wave quality worth it. Wind is the other consistent theme: mornings run clean and glassy, but afternoons turn genuinely blustery, choppy enough to affect snorkeling and noticeable enough that clifftop restaurant tables catch a steady breeze through the evening. Warm, sunny days are the norm. The record: 27.4C days, 24.5C nights, 57mm across 18 days, a 27.6C sea, 73 percent humidity and 10.9 hours of sun - more scattered rain days than the guides' "minimal rainfall" framing suggests.
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