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Wetar Island

2,622 km² of land in the Banda Sea.

N 20 km

Ferry portsPeaksLakes

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

2,622km²

Area

352km

Coastline

493m

Highest point

6,127

People

30°C

Warmest sea

November

631km

To the mainland

When to go to Wetar Island

Best for the beach from June to October.

The sea is warmest in November (30 °C) and coolest in August (27 °C). You can swim comfortably all year (21 °C or more).

29°28°27°

Jan22

29°28°26°

Feb20

29°28°26°

Mar19

29°29°27°

Apr14

29°29°26°

May9

28°28°25°

Jun5

27°28°24°

Jul2

27°28°24°

Aug1

28°29°25°

Sep1

29°30°26°

Oct3

30°31°27°

Nov10

30°30°27°

Dec21

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in Southwest Maluku Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia

Wetar Island is an island in Indonesia. It covers 2,622 km², with 352 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 493 m. About 6,127 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 631 km away.

Getting there

Baucau Airport (BCH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 77 km in a straight lineCar hire at DPS airport (Kuta, Badung)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
FerriesKisar - Lurang, Ilwaki - Amau, Amau - Lirang
631 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From June to Octoberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Wetar Island.

4ferry terminalsEray, Lurang, Ilwaki and 1 more
6named peaksLalaitu Mountains, Gunung Makor, Tenagatu Huhun and 3 more

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Wetar Island in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Wetar Island, each with its own numbers.

8mountainsPeakyas
1lakeLakeyas

Largest lake
1.8km²
Lake Tihu
according to Lakeyas
Warmest lake
26.6°C
Lake Tihu
surface water, warmest month · according to Lakeyas

8 mountains

on Peakyas, the mountain atlas

Ilitalo
Tenagatu Huhun
Huhun Makor
Pegunungan Littiwai
Pegunungan Lalaitu
Huhun Arnau
Mountain Lebakurun
Gunung Koreasohuhun

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1 lakes

on Lakeyas, the lake atlas

Lake Tihu1.8km²

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The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 468 m above the sea. 21 % of it is below 200 m.

6 %0–50 m
15 %50–200 m
34 %200–500 m
40 %500–1,000 m
4 %1,000–2,000 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Wetar Island2,622 km²

Mallorca3,685 km²

Long Island3,529 km²

100 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	28	28	28	29	29	28	28	28	29	30	31	30
Night low (°C)	27	26	26	27	26	25	24	24	25	26	27	27
Sea (°C)	29	29	29	29	29	28	27	27	28	29	30	30
Rain (mm)	217	174	120	64	42	27	11	5	5	12	48	156
Wet days	22	20	19	14	9	5	2	1	1	3	10	21
Sun h/day	6.0	6.1	6.8	7.6	7.2	7.0	7.9	9.3	9.8	9.6	9.0	6.4
Wind (km/h)	18	18	14	15	21	24	25	23	20	16	12	13

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	+0.4	+0.6	+0.5	+0.5	+0.2	+0.1	+0.3	+0.6	+0.3	+0.3	+0.6	+0.1
2021	+0.4	±0.0	+0.5	−0.3	−0.1	+0.4	+0.6	+0.8	+0.7	+0.9	+0.1	+0.2
2022	−0.4	−0.1	+0.3	+0.5	+0.6	+1.0	+0.9	+0.6	+0.8	+1.1	+0.3	+0.2
2023	−0.1	−0.3	+0.2	±0.0	+0.1	+0.2	+0.6	+0.3	−0.4	−0.3	−0.1	+0.1
2024	+0.3	±0.0	+0.1	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	+0.5	+0.4	+0.3	+0.6	+0.5	−0.3
2025	+0.8	+0.5	+0.8	+0.3	+0.3	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.3	+0.2	−0.2	−0.2

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Timor Cuckoo-Dove, Wetar island, Maluku Barat Daya Regency, Maluku, Indonesia iNaturalist — no rights reserved · CC0

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q615657) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls	Peakyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0, LakeTEMP (Korver et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0