Bekasi
City in Indonesia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Bekasi Station 05: Afrogindahood, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Bekasi is a city in Indonesia, in West Java. About 2.6 million people live in the city proper, making it the 3rd largest city of Indonesia in our atlas.
It lies at 6.23° S, 106.99° E, about 18 m (59 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Jakarta time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Bekasi. Green dots: other major cities of Indonesia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Bekasi has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 30°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 24°C (76°F). Around 2,200 mm (87 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Feb.
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
- Jakarta · 16 km
- Depok · 26 km
- South Tangerang · 31 km
- Tangerang · 40 km
- Bogor · 46 km
- Bandung · 102 km
- Bandar Lampung · 211 km
- Semarang · 388 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1649378 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q10392 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Bekasi Station 05: Afrogindahood, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Suburban Betawi: Rantemario, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Patriot Chandrabhaga 02: nodanodaboo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
