Batam
City in Indonesia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Vue de batam2: Jean-Luc BARRAUD, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Batam is a city in Indonesia, in Riau. About 1.3 million people live in the city proper, making it the 12th largest city of Indonesia in our atlas.
It lies at 1.15° N, 104.02° E, about 38 m (125 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Jakarta time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Batam. Green dots: other major cities of Indonesia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Batam has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). The warmest month is usually May, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 25°C (78°F). Around 2,391 mm (94 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in IndonesiaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Pekanbaru · 295 km
- Palembang · 458 km
- Medan · 653 km
- Bandar Lampung · 743 km
- Tangerang · 863 km
- Jakarta · 875 km
- South Tangerang · 878 km
- Bekasi · 883 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 6295587 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q10103 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Vue de batam2: Jean-Luc BARRAUD, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)