BMKG says the dry season will begin in April 2026; some provincial regions will be drier

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warns that this year’s dry season will be longer and relatively drier than last year. ‘Predicted for most of Indonesia, its onset will come earlier. It will also be longer; in plain terms, 2026 will be relatively drier than 2025,’ said BMKG head Teuku Faisal Fathani, quoted by Antara on Wednesday, 4 March 2026. The start of the dry season is predicted to begin in April 2026 in several regions of Indonesia, namely 114 dry-season zones, and will be felt gradually in other regions in May and June. Furthermore, BMKG forecasts that conditions during this year’s dry season will be normal overall, while some areas will be drier than usual. Deputy for Climatology at BMKG, Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan, in the same briefing, stated that 451 dry-season zones are below normal or tending to be drier, and 245 zones are in normal condition. Regions predicted to experience drier-than-normal or below-normal dry season include Aceh, parts of North Sumatra, parts of Riau, parts of the Riau Islands, parts of West Sumatra, parts of Jambi, most of South Sumatra, the Bangka Belitung Islands, parts of Bengkulu, parts of Lampung, and parts of Java. A similar pattern is also predicted for the majority of Bali and West Nusa Tenggara, parts of East Nusa Tenggara, West Kalimantan, parts of Central Kalimantan, South and East Kalimantan, parts of South Sulawesi, parts of Southeast Sulawesi, parts of West Sulawesi, parts of Central Sulawesi, central Gorontalo, and parts of North Sulawesi.