Disclaimer: Data may be delayed, incomplete or inaccurate. Model-based weather estimates for single points, not official station records. For education and research only. Use at your own risk. Not financial advice.
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Palm Oil Weather Monitor
Rain is the first link in the palm oil supply chain. Dry spells cut fruit bunch output 6 to 12 months later, so this page tracks rainfall against normal in the eight main oil palm belts of Malaysia and Indonesia, plus the next 16 days.
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Last 90 days against normal
Click a region to chart it below. Below 80% of normal is marked dry, above 120% wet.
Monthly rainfall, % of normal
Each cell is a month's rain as a share of the 2001–2020 average for that month. Brown is drier than normal, blue wetter.
Region detail
Monthly rainfall, last 24 months
Rainfall, mmNormal for the month
Daily rain, last 60 days and the 16-day forecast
ObservedForecast
Rain now, palm oil later
Malaysian rainfall against Malaysian palm oil production a year earlier.
Malaysia rainfall, % of normal (6-month average), shifted forward 9 monthsMPOB production, % change on a year earlier
Sources and method
Weather: Open-Meteo (ERA5 reanalysis archive and forecast models), licensed CC BY 4.0. Each region is one representative point in its oil palm belt, so local rain can differ. The normal is the 2001–2020 average for each calendar month. The latest days of the archive lag by a few days; the current month is compared with the normal for the days so far.Production: MPOB monthly data, via the Palm Oil Market Monitor.A GitHub Actions job rebuilds the data every morning. Not financial advice.