Singapore weather, without the ritual
It is hot, it is humid, and rain is possible in every month. The useful question is not "what is the climate". It is which tool to open for the next 20 minutes, the rest of today, or the rest of the week.
Current snapshot
Temperature
28.1°C
Island average, last two hours
Humidity
88%
Why 31°C feels warmer than the number
Today's range
25-34°C
Thundery Showers
Which tool for which question
Raining now?
Rain radar
Where the rain is this minute, and which way it is moving.
Next two hours?
2-hour nowcast
Will it rain in your town before you finish lunch.
Today and tonight?
24-hour forecast
Morning, afternoon and night, with a temperature band.
This week?
4-day outlook
The furthest official day-by-day forecast NEA publishes.
What a typical day actually does
Mornings are the coolest hours, often 24-26°C. Afternoons sit around 31-33°C unless rain cuts the peak. Humidity rarely drops far enough for the air to feel dry. The heat stress page is more honest than the temperature for outdoor sport.
Rain is not evenly spread across the island. A cell can soak Toa Payoh and miss Bedok in the same hour. That is why the 47 town nowcast pages exist. The island 24-hour forecast is the daily shape. The nowcast is the local call.
Singapore weather year
Four phases, not four seasons. Temperature barely moves. Rain type does.
Climate in one paragraph
Tropical rainforest climate, no dry season. Changi averages 2,113 mm a year and 171 rain days (1991-2020). December is the wettest. February is the driest. May is the hottest on the 24-hour mean. Full table on the climate page.