Tapaktuan

Tapaktuan is a town in the southwest of Aceh province of Indonesia. The town is the capital (seat of the government) of South Aceh Regency. According to the official estimates for mid-2022, it has a population of 23,465.^[1]

Tapaktuan
City
A beach in Tapaktuan
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Coordinates: 3°15′0″N 97°10′0″E
Country	Indonesia
Region	Sumatra
Province	Aceh
Area
• Total	100.73 km2 (38.89 sq mi)
Population  (mid 2022 estimate)
• Total	23,465
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
	[1]
Time zone	UTC+7 (IWST)
Area code	(+62) 627

Climate

Tapaktuan has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Climate data for Tapaktuan
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	30.9 (87.6)	31.7 (89.1)	32.2 (90.0)	32.5 (90.5)	32.6 (90.7)	32.6 (90.7)	32.3 (90.1)	32.2 (90.0)	31.5 (88.7)	31.3 (88.3)	30.7 (87.3)	30.6 (87.1)	31.8 (89.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)	26.5 (79.7)	26.8 (80.2)	27.2 (81.0)	27.6 (81.7)	27.8 (82.0)	27.5 (81.5)	27.1 (80.8)	27.2 (81.0)	26.9 (80.4)	27.0 (80.6)	26.6 (79.9)	26.5 (79.7)	27.1 (80.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	22.1 (71.8)	22.0 (71.6)	22.3 (72.1)	22.8 (73.0)	23.0 (73.4)	22.5 (72.5)	22.0 (71.6)	22.2 (72.0)	22.4 (72.3)	22.7 (72.9)	22.5 (72.5)	22.4 (72.3)	22.4 (72.3)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	251 (9.9)	213 (8.4)	323 (12.7)	350 (13.8)	246 (9.7)	178 (7.0)	197 (7.8)	227 (8.9)	267 (10.5)	344 (13.5)	353 (13.9)	301 (11.9)	3,250 (128)
Source: Climate-Data.org[2]

Further reading

• See The Fourth Circle: A political ecology of Sumatra's rainforest frontier by John F McCarthy (Stanford University Press, 2006).

References

1. Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2023.
2. "Climate: Tapaktuan". Climate-Data.org. Archived from the original on 15 September 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2020.