<![CDATA[Indonesia is an area with a tropical climate, so it has two seasons, namely the rainy season and the dry season. The rainy season lasts from November to March and during this period rainfall tends to be high in several areas. Padang Panjang City is one of the cities with the smallest area in West Sumatra Province, which has the nickname Rain City. This is because the city of Padang Panjang has cool air with a maximum air temperature of 26.1 °C and a minimum of 21.8 °C, so this city has a fairly high level of rainfall with an average of 300 to 400 mm/year. This article discusses rainfall forecasting for Padang Panjang City by comparing the Singular Spectrum Analysis and Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average methods. The data used spans 8 years, from January 2016 to December 2023. Forecasting results are obtained from the best method selected based on the smallest Mean Absolute Percentage Error value. The Singular Spectrum Analysis method has a Mean Absolute Percentage Error value of 5.59% and Singular Spectrum Analysis and Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average has a value 7.43%. The best forecasting method is obtained by the Singular Spectrum Analysis method.]]>
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