Kuantan climate

Name: Kuantan
Address: MY

Kuantan is warmest in May, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. December is the wettest month (350 mm) and February the driest (88 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kuantan averages 2,543 mm of rain and 361 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 548,014 · 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 May 30 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month February 88 mm
Wettest month December 350 mm
Least cloud March 72 % cloud
Hottest on record April 34 °C
Coldest on record January 21 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectKuantan through the year

Kuantan changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 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, 361 days a year reach 25 °C, 96 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 350 mm against 88 mm in February — 4.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Kuantan 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	27.4 °C	197 mm	81 %
February	28.2 °C	88 mm	75 %
March	29.3 °C	146 mm	72 %
April	30.1 °C	162 mm	74 %
May	30.3 °C	199 mm	79 %
June	30.1 °C	181 mm	78 %
July	29.7 °C	167 mm	78 %
August	29.8 °C	192 mm	79 %
September	29.7 °C	218 mm	80 %
October	29.3 °C	294 mm	85 %
November	28.1 °C	349 mm	88 %
December	27.5 °C	350 mm	88 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.4 °C	23.2 °C	25.1 °C	31.0 °C	20.6 °C	30	0
February	28.2 °C	23.4 °C	25.6 °C	32.2 °C	20.7 °C	28	1
March	29.3 °C	23.9 °C	26.3 °C	33.1 °C	21.3 °C	31	7
April	30.1 °C	24.5 °C	27.0 °C	33.8 °C	22.7 °C	30	14
May	30.3 °C	24.8 °C	27.1 °C	33.7 °C	23.4 °C	31	19
June	30.1 °C	24.6 °C	26.9 °C	33.4 °C	22.7 °C	30	16
July	29.7 °C	24.3 °C	26.6 °C	32.1 °C	21.6 °C	31	10
August	29.8 °C	24.2 °C	26.5 °C	32.7 °C	22.7 °C	31	11
September	29.7 °C	24.0 °C	26.4 °C	31.8 °C	22.5 °C	30	11
October	29.3 °C	23.9 °C	26.1 °C	31.7 °C	22.4 °C	31	6
November	28.1 °C	23.6 °C	25.5 °C	31.2 °C	22.4 °C	29	1
December	27.5 °C	23.4 °C	25.1 °C	30.3 °C	21.9 °C	29	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	197 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	85 %	18 km/h	27.5 °C
February	88 mm	14	12 h/day	75 %	83 %	18 km/h	27.7 °C
March	146 mm	19	12 h/day	72 %	84 %	16 km/h	28.6 °C
April	162 mm	23	12 h/day	74 %	85 %	13 km/h	29.7 °C
May	199 mm	26	12 h/day	79 %	86 %	11 km/h	30.0 °C
June	181 mm	23	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	12 km/h	29.5 °C
July	167 mm	24	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	13 km/h	29.2 °C
August	192 mm	25	12 h/day	79 %	86 %	13 km/h	29.0 °C
September	218 mm	25	12 h/day	80 %	87 %	12 km/h	29.1 °C
October	294 mm	28	12 h/day	85 %	88 %	11 km/h	29.3 °C
November	349 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	13 km/h	28.9 °C
December	350 mm	24	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	16 km/h	28.1 °C

How Kuantan 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
Kuantan	30 °C	23 °C	2,543 mm	361
Kuala Terengganu · Malaysia	31 °C	23 °C	3,361 mm	361
Kuala Kubu Baharu · Malaysia	31 °C	22 °C	2,531 mm	365
Wangsa Maju · Malaysia	30 °C	21 °C	2,938 mm	364
Kajang · Malaysia	31 °C	22 °C	2,909 mm	365

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Kuantan.

QuestionsCommon questions about Kuantan’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kuantan?

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, May is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kuantan get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 96 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °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 Kuantan?

December, averaging 350 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is February with 88 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,543 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 Kuantan 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: 3.808°, 103.326° (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.