By Harry Nara · Last updated
Choose Your Season
Broader overviews covering weather patterns, events, and highlights across an entire season.
Plan by Month
Each month at a glance — temperature, crowds, and one click to the full guide.
Events & Festivals
Dates, where to watch, and what each one actually costs.
Two Seasons That Divide the Year by Price
Bali is usually explained as dry and wet, which is true and incomplete. The sharper division is what each month costs and how many people you share it with, and the two do not line up the way you would guess: the months with the best weather are the months everyone else has also chosen, and the quietest stretch of the Balinese year is in the middle of the rain.
The Dry Season (April to October)
Twenty-four to 30°C with two to seven wet days a month, reliable sun, and the surf and dive conditions the island is known for. June and September are the picks inside it, because they carry the weather without the peak. July and August do not: both are rated very high, Seminyak fills, and prices follow.
The Wet Season (November to March)
Ten to twenty wet days a month and the same 24 to 31°C, because the temperature here hardly moves at all. Rain is usually a heavy afternoon hour rather than a lost day. The landscape is at its greenest, the rice terraces are working rather than photogenic, and January through March are rated low for crowds, which is the opposite of what the weather would suggest.
Which Half You Want Depends on What You Came For
If the trip is diving, surfing or a wedding, the dry season is not really optional. If it is temples, walking, food and a villa with a view of something green, the wet season gives you the same island with fewer people in it and a lower bill, at the cost of rearranging some afternoons.
Our Bali Guides
Fourteen guides covering both seasons and every month, written around that trade rather than around the rainfall chart.