BMKG: 66 Percent of West Java Regions Surrounded by Earlier and Drier Dry Season

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG – The Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) West Java has revealed that 66 percent of the province’s areas are predicted to experience an earlier dry season with weather conditions far drier than usual. BMKG West Java has issued a serious warning to the public because, in addition to arriving earlier and being drier, the dry season is also expected to last longer than normal conditions.

“Some 56 percent of West Java’s areas are predicted to enter the dry season in May,” said BMKG West Java Forecaster Vivi Indhira online in Bandung on Tuesday (14/4/2026).

Vivi explained that this dry phenomenon has actually started since March in Bekasi and northern Karawang, then expanded to Subang and Indramayu in April. At its peak, she said, 90 percent of West Java will experience extreme dry conditions in August.

In the 2026 dry season, predicted to last longer, she continued, an estimated 93 percent of the areas will be categorised as dry.

In addition to August, with 90 percent of the areas reaching the dry peak, she said, a small portion of the areas (8 percent) will peak in July and 2 percent in September.

Only 2 percent of the areas have different seasonal characteristics, covering Bogor City, Central Bogor, and a small part of northern Sukabumi.