Johor Bahru climate

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Johor Bahru is warmest in March, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 24 °C. November is the wettest month (332 mm) and February the driest (131 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Johor Bahru averages 2,632 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 858,118 · 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 24 °C
Driest month February 131 mm
Wettest month November 332 mm
Least cloud July 76 % cloud
Hottest on record March 36 °C
Coldest on record January 21 °C

What to expectJohor Bahru through the year

Johor Bahru changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 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, 53 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 332 mm against 131 mm in February — 2.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.3 °C	201 mm	84 %
February	29.1 °C	131 mm	79 %
March	29.7 °C	214 mm	77 %
April	29.7 °C	254 mm	80 %
May	29.4 °C	229 mm	79 %
June	29.2 °C	183 mm	76 %
July	28.8 °C	169 mm	76 %
August	28.8 °C	171 mm	77 %
September	29.0 °C	172 mm	79 %
October	29.1 °C	253 mm	85 %
November	28.7 °C	332 mm	90 %
December	28.3 °C	323 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	28.3 °C	23.6 °C	25.4 °C	31.8 °C	21.4 °C	30	1
February	29.1 °C	23.7 °C	25.9 °C	33.6 °C	21.6 °C	28	6
March	29.7 °C	24.1 °C	26.4 °C	36.0 °C	21.5 °C	31	11
April	29.7 °C	24.5 °C	26.7 °C	32.2 °C	22.3 °C	30	10
May	29.4 °C	25.0 °C	27.0 °C	32.1 °C	23.5 °C	31	8
June	29.2 °C	25.0 °C	26.9 °C	31.3 °C	22.9 °C	30	6
July	28.8 °C	24.7 °C	26.6 °C	30.7 °C	22.6 °C	31	2
August	28.8 °C	24.6 °C	26.5 °C	31.7 °C	22.9 °C	31	1
September	29.0 °C	24.4 °C	26.5 °C	33.0 °C	22.3 °C	30	3
October	29.1 °C	24.3 °C	26.3 °C	31.6 °C	22.7 °C	31	4
November	28.7 °C	24.0 °C	25.8 °C	31.0 °C	22.5 °C	30	2
December	28.3 °C	23.8 °C	25.5 °C	31.1 °C	22.2 °C	30	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	201 mm	21	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	16 km/h
February	131 mm	16	12 h/day	79 %	84 %	16 km/h
March	214 mm	24	12 h/day	77 %	85 %	12 km/h
April	254 mm	27	12 h/day	80 %	88 %	10 km/h
May	229 mm	28	12 h/day	79 %	88 %	11 km/h
June	183 mm	24	12 h/day	76 %	87 %	12 km/h
July	169 mm	24	12 h/day	76 %	86 %	14 km/h
August	171 mm	25	12 h/day	77 %	86 %	14 km/h
September	172 mm	24	12 h/day	79 %	87 %	13 km/h
October	253 mm	26	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	12 km/h
November	332 mm	28	12 h/day	90 %	89 %	11 km/h
December	323 mm	27	12 h/day	90 %	88 %	14 km/h

How Johor Bahru 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
Johor Bahru	30 °C	24 °C	2,632 mm	364
Woodlands · Singapore	29 °C	24 °C	2,686 mm	364
Mukim Pulai · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,591 mm	364
Ang Mo Kio New Town · Singapore	29 °C	24 °C	2,556 mm	364
Bandar Seri Alam · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,649 mm	364
Jurong Town · Singapore	29 °C	24 °C	2,593 mm	364
Pasir Gudang · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,694 mm	364

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Johor Bahru.

QuestionsCommon questions about Johor Bahru’s climate

When is the best time to visit Johor Bahru?

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 Johor Bahru get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 53 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 24 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Johor Bahru?

November, averaging 332 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 131 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,632 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 Johor Bahru 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: 1.466°, 103.758° (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.