Indonesia vs Papua New Guinea: Annual precipitation

Indonesia
3,662 millimeters
in 2025
Papua New Guinea
4,152 millimeters
in 2025
Indonesia rank
4th
Papua New Guinea rank
1st

Annual precipitation over time

  • Indonesia
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 4,152 millimeters against 3,662 millimeters in Indonesia, a difference of 490.6 millimeters.

That makes Papua New Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 86 shared years of data; in 1940 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Indonesia ranks 4th and Papua New Guinea ranks 1st of 192 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual precipitation
Unit
millimeters
Source
Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
192 places, 16,512 data points, 1940–2025
Last refreshed

Total annual precipitation—rain and snow—calculated as the sum of daily averages, reported as the depth of water falling to Earth's surface, excluding fog and dew.