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Sungguminasa is a town and Gowa Regency's administrative capital in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. [1] It is home to the Balla' Lompoa Museum, a reconstruction of the Gowa royal palace. The building is constructed on stilts and made of ironwood.
Sungguminasa has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with moderate to little rainfall from May to October and heavy to very heavy rainfall from November to April.
| Climate data for Sungguminasa | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 29.2 (84.6) | 29.4 (84.9) | 29.9 (85.8) | 30.7 (87.3) | 31.0 (87.8) | 30.6 (87.1) | 30.7 (87.3) | 31.2 (88.2) | 31.5 (88.7) | 31.5 (88.7) | 30.7 (87.3) | 29.4 (84.9) | 30.5 (86.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.0 (78.8) | 26.3 (79.3) | 26.4 (79.5) | 26.8 (80.2) | 26.9 (80.4) | 26.2 (79.2) | 25.8 (78.4) | 25.8 (78.4) | 26.2 (79.2) | 26.6 (79.9) | 26.7 (80.1) | 26.1 (79.0) | 26.3 (79.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 22.9 (73.2) | 23.3 (73.9) | 22.9 (73.2) | 22.9 (73.2) | 22.8 (73.0) | 21.8 (71.2) | 20.9 (69.6) | 20.4 (68.7) | 20.9 (69.6) | 21.8 (71.2) | 22.8 (73.0) | 22.9 (73.2) | 22.2 (71.9) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 606 (23.9) | 553 (21.8) | 379 (14.9) | 177 (7.0) | 105 (4.1) | 70 (2.8) | 44 (1.7) | 23 (0.9) | 36 (1.4) | 66 (2.6) | 220 (8.7) | 493 (19.4) | 2,772 (109.2) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org [2] | |||||||||||||
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