Kuching climate

Name: Kuching
Address: MY

Kuching is warmest in August, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. January is the wettest month (436 mm) and July the driest (184 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kuching averages 3,507 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 402,738 · 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 August 31 °C
Coldest month January 23 °C
Driest month July 184 mm
Wettest month January 436 mm
Least cloud July 82 % cloud
Hottest on record August 35 °C
Coldest on record September 21 °C

What to expectKuching through the year

Kuching changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 and 31 °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, 151 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. January averages 436 mm against 184 mm in July — 2.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.4 °C	436 mm	94 %
February	28.7 °C	319 mm	93 %
March	29.5 °C	276 mm	91 %
April	30.0 °C	275 mm	89 %
May	30.3 °C	249 mm	86 %
June	30.2 °C	198 mm	83 %
July	30.3 °C	184 mm	82 %
August	30.6 °C	198 mm	85 %
September	30.1 °C	259 mm	89 %
October	29.7 °C	326 mm	92 %
November	29.2 °C	370 mm	94 %
December	28.8 °C	418 mm	95 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.4 °C	23.4 °C	25.4 °C	31.7 °C	21.9 °C	31	2
February	28.7 °C	23.5 °C	25.6 °C	31.5 °C	21.5 °C	28	3
March	29.5 °C	23.8 °C	26.0 °C	32.2 °C	22.2 °C	31	10
April	30.0 °C	24.1 °C	26.4 °C	32.4 °C	22.3 °C	30	16
May	30.3 °C	24.4 °C	26.7 °C	33.1 °C	22.2 °C	31	20
June	30.2 °C	24.2 °C	26.7 °C	34.0 °C	21.8 °C	30	19
July	30.3 °C	23.9 °C	26.5 °C	34.2 °C	21.0 °C	31	18
August	30.6 °C	23.9 °C	26.6 °C	35.1 °C	21.7 °C	31	21
September	30.1 °C	23.8 °C	26.3 °C	33.9 °C	20.6 °C	30	18
October	29.7 °C	23.7 °C	26.0 °C	33.2 °C	21.3 °C	31	13
November	29.2 °C	23.6 °C	25.7 °C	31.8 °C	21.9 °C	30	7
December	28.8 °C	23.5 °C	25.5 °C	32.2 °C	22.3 °C	31	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	436 mm	29	12 h/day	94 %	91 %	9.6 km/h
February	319 mm	25	12 h/day	93 %	89 %	9.7 km/h
March	276 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	8.3 km/h
April	275 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	90 %	7.2 km/h
May	249 mm	27	12 h/day	86 %	90 %	6.8 km/h
June	198 mm	22	12 h/day	83 %	88 %	6.9 km/h
July	184 mm	21	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	7.2 km/h
August	198 mm	22	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	7.5 km/h
September	259 mm	25	12 h/day	89 %	88 %	7.2 km/h
October	326 mm	29	12 h/day	92 %	90 %	7.7 km/h
November	370 mm	29	12 h/day	94 %	91 %	8.0 km/h
December	418 mm	29	12 h/day	95 %	91 %	8.8 km/h

How Kuching 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
Kuching	31 °C	23 °C	3,507 mm	364
Singkawang · Indonesia	30 °C	24 °C	2,901 mm	365
Sibu · Malaysia	30 °C	23 °C	2,994 mm	364
Pontianak · Indonesia	31 °C	23 °C	2,876 mm	365
Bintulu · Malaysia	31 °C	23 °C	3,355 mm	364
Miri · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,631 mm	365
Palangkaraya · Indonesia	32 °C	23 °C	2,670 mm	365

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kuching’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kuching?

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

How hot does Kuching get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 151 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °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 Kuching?

January, averaging 436 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is July with 184 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,507 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 Kuching 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: 1.550°, 110.333° (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.