Bogor
City in Indonesia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Montage of Bogor: Yogwi21, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Bogor is a city in Indonesia, in West Java. About 1.1 million people live in the city proper, making it the 16th largest city of Indonesia in our atlas.
It lies at 6.59° S, 106.79° E, about 245 m (804 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Jakarta time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Bogor. Green dots: other major cities of Indonesia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Bogor has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 20°C (67°F). Around 2,270 mm (89 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
- Depok · 22 km
- South Tangerang · 35 km
- Jakarta · 43 km
- Bekasi · 46 km
- Tangerang · 49 km
- Bandung · 97 km
- Bandar Lampung · 212 km
- Semarang · 403 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1648473 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q10393 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Montage of Bogor: Yogwi21, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Botanischer Garten in Bogor: Talaborn, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Istana Bogor: MichaelJLowe, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het Zo÷logisch Museum en laboratorium van 's Lands Plantentuin te Buitenzorg West-Java TMnr 10010799: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Stadion Utama GOR Pajajaran: Sersan Mayor Kururu, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
