BMKG predicts several regions will enter the dry season starting April 2026

Jakarta — The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG) predicts that a number of regions in Indonesia will enter the dry season starting April 2026, beginning in Nusa Tenggara and gradually spreading to other areas.

‘At the start of the dry season, most of Indonesia is forecast to enter the dry season in April, with 114 dry-season zones, or about 16.3 percent of the total 699 zones,’ BMKG chief Teuku Faisal Fathani said at a press conference at the BMKG office in Jakarta on Wednesday.

‘It will begin in the Nusa Tenggara region and move westward gradually to the rest of Indonesia,’ he added.

He also warned that the duration of the dry season in most of Indonesia, covering 400 dry-season zones, will be longer than normal.

The peak of the dry season is predicted to occur in July 2026 for parts of Sumatra, central and northern Kalimantan, small parts of Java, small parts of West and East Nusa Tenggara, northern West Sulawesi, western Central Sulawesi, western North Sulawesi, small parts of Maluku, central West Papua and eastern Papua.

Those experiencing the peak in August 2026 are central and southern Sumatra, central to eastern Java, most of Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali and Nusa Tenggara, parts of Maluku, North Maluku and Papua.

Meanwhile, BMKG forecasts the areas where the peak will occur in September to include parts of Lampung, small parts of Java, most of NTT, northern and eastern Sulawesi, most of North Maluku, parts of Maluku and small parts of Papua.