Kulim climate

Name: Kulim
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Kulim is warmest in March, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 22 °C. November is the wettest month (382 mm) and February the driest (137 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kulim averages 2,776 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 170,889 · 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 137 mm
Wettest month November 382 mm
Least cloud February 69 % cloud
Hottest on record March 37 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C

What to expectKulim through the year

Kulim changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 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, 130 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 382 mm against 137 mm in February — 2.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.6 °C	172 mm	74 %
February	30.4 °C	137 mm	69 %
March	30.5 °C	211 mm	73 %
April	30.1 °C	258 mm	81 %
May	30.0 °C	256 mm	87 %
June	30.0 °C	155 mm	83 %
July	29.9 °C	153 mm	85 %
August	29.8 °C	187 mm	86 %
September	29.2 °C	239 mm	89 %
October	28.7 °C	363 mm	91 %
November	28.7 °C	382 mm	89 %
December	28.8 °C	264 mm	84 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.6 °C	22.1 °C	25.6 °C	33.2 °C	17.8 °C	31	11
February	30.4 °C	22.4 °C	26.1 °C	34.9 °C	17.8 °C	28	17
March	30.5 °C	23.2 °C	26.4 °C	36.5 °C	20.4 °C	31	18
April	30.1 °C	23.6 °C	26.3 °C	33.7 °C	20.9 °C	30	14
May	30.0 °C	23.8 °C	26.5 °C	32.8 °C	21.4 °C	31	14
June	30.0 °C	23.6 °C	26.5 °C	32.9 °C	21.6 °C	30	15
July	29.9 °C	23.3 °C	26.3 °C	33.1 °C	21.7 °C	31	14
August	29.8 °C	23.3 °C	26.2 °C	34.2 °C	21.0 °C	31	14
September	29.2 °C	23.1 °C	25.7 °C	32.6 °C	20.8 °C	30	6
October	28.7 °C	23.0 °C	25.3 °C	32.2 °C	21.2 °C	31	2
November	28.7 °C	22.9 °C	25.2 °C	31.0 °C	20.6 °C	30	2
December	28.8 °C	22.4 °C	25.2 °C	31.6 °C	19.3 °C	31	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	172 mm	20	12 h/day	74 %	83 %	8.3 km/h
February	137 mm	18	12 h/day	69 %	81 %	9.3 km/h
March	211 mm	24	12 h/day	73 %	83 %	9.6 km/h
April	258 mm	28	12 h/day	81 %	87 %	8.9 km/h
May	256 mm	26	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	9.0 km/h
June	155 mm	20	12 h/day	83 %	85 %	9.6 km/h
July	153 mm	20	12 h/day	85 %	84 %	10 km/h
August	187 mm	23	12 h/day	86 %	84 %	10 km/h
September	239 mm	25	12 h/day	89 %	86 %	9.7 km/h
October	363 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	9.3 km/h
November	382 mm	28	12 h/day	89 %	89 %	8.2 km/h
December	264 mm	24	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	8.0 km/h

How Kulim 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
Kulim	30 °C	22 °C	2,776 mm	365
Bukit Mertajam · Malaysia	31 °C	23 °C	2,589 mm	365
George Town · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,487 mm	365
Paya Terubong · Malaysia	30 °C	24 °C	2,477 mm	365
Sungai Petani · Malaysia	31 °C	23 °C	2,396 mm	365
Kota Kuala Muda · Malaysia	31 °C	23 °C	2,419 mm	365
Taiping · Malaysia	30 °C	23 °C	2,686 mm	365

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kulim’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kulim?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. October, 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 Kulim get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 130 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °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 Kulim?

November, averaging 382 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 137 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,776 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 Kulim 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: 5.365°, 100.562° (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.