Batu Pahat climate

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Batu Pahat is warmest in March, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. November is the wettest month (282 mm) and February the driest (99 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Batu Pahat averages 2,439 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 156,236 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month March 30 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month February 99 mm
Wettest month November 282 mm
Least cloud July 76 % cloud
Hottest on record March 36 °C
Coldest on record January 21 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectBatu Pahat through the year

Batu Pahat changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 84 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 282 mm against 99 mm in February — 2.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Batu Pahat is warmest in May at 30 °C and coldest in January at 28 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.8 °C	162 mm	83 %
February	29.8 °C	99 mm	78 %
March	30.2 °C	172 mm	78 %
April	30.0 °C	220 mm	82 %
May	29.7 °C	233 mm	81 %
June	29.5 °C	191 mm	77 %
July	29.1 °C	192 mm	76 %
August	29.0 °C	201 mm	78 %
September	29.1 °C	193 mm	80 %
October	29.1 °C	239 mm	85 %
November	28.8 °C	282 mm	91 %
December	28.5 °C	256 mm	90 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.8 °C	23.3 °C	25.5 °C	32.3 °C	20.7 °C	31	4
February	29.8 °C	23.5 °C	26.1 °C	34.9 °C	20.7 °C	28	12
March	30.2 °C	24.0 °C	26.6 °C	36.4 °C	21.6 °C	31	18
April	30.0 °C	24.4 °C	26.8 °C	34.0 °C	21.6 °C	30	15
May	29.7 °C	24.8 °C	27.0 °C	31.9 °C	22.8 °C	31	11
June	29.5 °C	24.8 °C	26.9 °C	31.9 °C	22.6 °C	30	9
July	29.1 °C	24.5 °C	26.6 °C	31.6 °C	22.2 °C	31	3
August	29.0 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	30.9 °C	21.7 °C	31	2
September	29.1 °C	24.2 °C	26.5 °C	32.7 °C	22.3 °C	30	4
October	29.1 °C	24.1 °C	26.3 °C	31.5 °C	21.1 °C	31	5
November	28.8 °C	23.9 °C	25.8 °C	31.0 °C	22.1 °C	30	2
December	28.5 °C	23.6 °C	25.5 °C	31.2 °C	21.8 °C	31	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	162 mm	19	12 h/day	83 %	86 %	15 km/h	28.2 °C
February	99 mm	15	12 h/day	78 %	83 %	15 km/h	28.2 °C
March	172 mm	23	12 h/day	78 %	85 %	12 km/h	28.9 °C
April	220 mm	26	12 h/day	82 %	88 %	11 km/h	29.8 °C
May	233 mm	28	12 h/day	81 %	89 %	11 km/h	30.3 °C
June	191 mm	24	12 h/day	77 %	88 %	13 km/h	30.3 °C
July	192 mm	23	12 h/day	76 %	87 %	14 km/h	29.8 °C
August	201 mm	25	12 h/day	78 %	87 %	14 km/h	29.6 °C
September	193 mm	24	12 h/day	80 %	88 %	13 km/h	29.5 °C
October	239 mm	27	12 h/day	85 %	88 %	12 km/h	29.5 °C
November	282 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	90 %	12 km/h	29.3 °C
December	256 mm	25	12 h/day	90 %	89 %	14 km/h	28.7 °C

How Batu Pahat compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Batu Pahat	30 °C	23 °C	2,439 mm	364
Muar · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,198 mm	364
Kluang · Malaysia	30 °C	23 °C	2,471 mm	363
Malacca · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,283 mm	365
Mukim Pulai · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,591 mm	364
Iskandar Puteri · Malaysia	29 °C	24 °C	2,301 mm	365
Johor Bahru · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,632 mm	364

Where Batu Pahat ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in May	22nd of 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in May	24th of 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in June	26th of 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia year-round	26th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world year-round	27th of 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in June	28th of 50	30 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Batu Pahat’s climate

When is the best time to visit Batu Pahat?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, November, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, March is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Batu Pahat get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 84 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Batu Pahat?

November, averaging 282 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 99 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,439 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Batu Pahat rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 1.855°, 102.933° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.