Petaling Jaya climate

Name: Petaling Jaya
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Petaling Jaya is warmest in March, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 22 °C. November is the wettest month (326 mm) and June the driest (106 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Petaling Jaya averages 2,186 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Malaysia · population 807,879 · 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 June 106 mm
Wettest month November 326 mm
Least cloud February 75 % cloud
Hottest on record March 35 °C
Coldest on record January 19 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectPetaling Jaya through the year

Petaling Jaya 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, 142 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 326 mm against 106 mm in June — 3.1 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Petaling Jaya is warmest in May at 30 °C and coldest in January at 29 °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	29.2 °C	208 mm	80 %
February	30.0 °C	129 mm	75 %
March	30.3 °C	181 mm	77 %
April	30.1 °C	199 mm	83 %
May	30.1 °C	168 mm	84 %
June	30.2 °C	106 mm	79 %
July	30.1 °C	113 mm	79 %
August	30.0 °C	119 mm	81 %
September	29.9 °C	146 mm	83 %
October	29.6 °C	206 mm	88 %
November	28.9 °C	326 mm	91 %
December	28.7 °C	284 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	29.2 °C	22.4 °C	25.4 °C	33.2 °C	19.3 °C	31	7
February	30.0 °C	22.5 °C	25.9 °C	34.9 °C	19.4 °C	28	13
March	30.3 °C	23.1 °C	26.3 °C	35.1 °C	19.6 °C	31	17
April	30.1 °C	23.6 °C	26.4 °C	34.5 °C	21.5 °C	30	14
May	30.1 °C	23.8 °C	26.6 °C	33.1 °C	21.8 °C	31	15
June	30.2 °C	23.7 °C	26.7 °C	33.9 °C	21.5 °C	30	17
July	30.1 °C	23.4 °C	26.5 °C	33.7 °C	21.1 °C	31	16
August	30.0 °C	23.4 °C	26.4 °C	33.5 °C	21.3 °C	31	16
September	29.9 °C	23.3 °C	26.3 °C	34.5 °C	21.2 °C	30	13
October	29.6 °C	23.2 °C	26.0 °C	34.2 °C	21.2 °C	31	10
November	28.9 °C	23.0 °C	25.4 °C	31.4 °C	21.1 °C	30	3
December	28.7 °C	22.7 °C	25.3 °C	31.4 °C	19.7 °C	31	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	208 mm	21	12 h/day	80 %	85 %	9.4 km/h	28.9 °C
February	129 mm	16	12 h/day	75 %	83 %	10 km/h	28.9 °C
March	181 mm	23	12 h/day	77 %	85 %	11 km/h	29.5 °C
April	199 mm	25	12 h/day	83 %	87 %	10 km/h	30.0 °C
May	168 mm	23	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	11 km/h	30.3 °C
June	106 mm	17	12 h/day	79 %	84 %	11 km/h	30.2 °C
July	113 mm	18	12 h/day	79 %	83 %	12 km/h	30.0 °C
August	119 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	83 %	12 km/h	29.8 °C
September	146 mm	21	12 h/day	83 %	84 %	12 km/h	29.7 °C
October	206 mm	25	12 h/day	88 %	85 %	12 km/h	29.6 °C
November	326 mm	28	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	10 km/h	29.4 °C
December	284 mm	26	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	9.8 km/h	29.2 °C

How Petaling Jaya 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
Petaling Jaya	30 °C	22 °C	2,186 mm	365
Kota Damansara · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,541 mm	365
Shah Alam · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,272 mm	365
Kampung Baru Subang · Malaysia	30 °C	23 °C	2,641 mm	365
Kuala Lumpur · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,905 mm	365
Bukit Jalil · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	2,960 mm	365
Selayang Baru Utara · Malaysia	30 °C	22 °C	3,001 mm	365

Where Petaling Jaya ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in December	29thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in December	36thof 50	29 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in July	37thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in June	37thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in Asia in September	37thof 50	30 °C
Warmest sea temperatures in the world in June	39thof 50	30 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Petaling Jaya’s climate

When is the best time to visit Petaling Jaya?

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 June the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Petaling Jaya get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 142 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 22 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Petaling Jaya?

November, averaging 326 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is June with 106 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,186 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 Petaling Jaya 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
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.