Kuala Lumpur climate

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Kuala Lumpur is warmest in March, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 22 °C. November is the wettest month (374 mm) and February the driest (165 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kuala Lumpur averages 2,905 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 1,453,975 · 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 22 °C
Driest month February 165 mm
Wettest month November 374 mm
Least cloud February 77 % cloud
Hottest on record February 36 °C
Coldest on record January 19 °C

What to expectKuala Lumpur through the year

Kuala Lumpur 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, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 150 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 374 mm against 165 mm in February — 2.3 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.4 °C	203 mm	82 %
February	30.3 °C	165 mm	77 %
March	30.5 °C	260 mm	79 %
April	30.3 °C	293 mm	85 %
May	30.2 °C	235 mm	87 %
June	30.1 °C	171 mm	83 %
July	30.0 °C	185 mm	83 %
August	29.8 °C	214 mm	85 %
September	29.8 °C	236 mm	86 %
October	29.6 °C	292 mm	90 %
November	29.0 °C	374 mm	93 %
December	28.8 °C	278 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	29.4 °C	22.2 °C	25.4 °C	33.8 °C	19.1 °C	31	9
February	30.3 °C	22.4 °C	26.0 °C	35.7 °C	19.2 °C	28	15
March	30.5 °C	23.0 °C	26.3 °C	35.4 °C	19.3 °C	31	19
April	30.3 °C	23.4 °C	26.3 °C	35.3 °C	21.2 °C	30	16
May	30.2 °C	23.7 °C	26.5 °C	33.1 °C	21.5 °C	31	16
June	30.1 °C	23.5 °C	26.5 °C	33.6 °C	21.3 °C	30	17
July	30.0 °C	23.2 °C	26.3 °C	33.4 °C	20.8 °C	31	15
August	29.8 °C	23.1 °C	26.2 °C	33.2 °C	21.1 °C	31	13
September	29.8 °C	23.1 °C	26.1 °C	35.1 °C	20.8 °C	30	12
October	29.6 °C	23.1 °C	25.9 °C	33.6 °C	20.9 °C	31	11
November	29.0 °C	22.9 °C	25.4 °C	31.9 °C	20.8 °C	30	4
December	28.8 °C	22.6 °C	25.2 °C	31.9 °C	19.3 °C	31	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	203 mm	20	12 h/day	82 %	85 %	8.4 km/h
February	165 mm	17	12 h/day	77 %	83 %	8.8 km/h
March	260 mm	25	12 h/day	79 %	85 %	8.5 km/h
April	293 mm	28	12 h/day	85 %	87 %	8.1 km/h
May	235 mm	26	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	8.7 km/h
June	171 mm	22	12 h/day	83 %	85 %	9.0 km/h
July	185 mm	24	12 h/day	83 %	84 %	9.6 km/h
August	214 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	84 %	9.7 km/h
September	236 mm	25	12 h/day	86 %	85 %	9.5 km/h
October	292 mm	27	12 h/day	90 %	86 %	9.3 km/h
November	374 mm	28	12 h/day	93 %	89 %	7.9 km/h
December	278 mm	26	12 h/day	90 %	88 %	8.0 km/h

How Kuala Lumpur 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
Kuala Lumpur	30 °C	22 °C	2,905 mm	365
Wangsa Maju · Malaysia	30 °C	21 °C	2,938 mm	364
Petaling Jaya · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,186 mm	365
Bukit Jalil · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,960 mm	365
Kota Damansara · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,541 mm	365
Selayang Baru Utara · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	3,001 mm	365

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QuestionsCommon questions about Kuala Lumpur’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kuala Lumpur?

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 Kuala Lumpur get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 150 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 22 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kuala Lumpur?

November, averaging 374 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 165 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,905 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 Kuala Lumpur 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: 3.141°, 101.687° (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.