Weather in Kuala Lumpur, month by month

Warmest month
May, 26.3
Coldest month
January, 24.7
Wettest month
November, 314 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Kuala Lumpur is May at 26.3 degrees and the coldest is January at 24.7, a swing of 1.6 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in November, about 314 mm, and lightest in June at roughly 155 mm. Over a full year the cell above Kuala Lumpur collects around 2,521 mm.

No month in Kuala Lumpur averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.

Humidity peaks in December at 89 percent, and the windiest month is January at 0.9 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 56 per cent of the year total falls in August, September, October, November, December and January.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 3.14, 101.69, covering Kuala Lumpur on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Kuala Lumpur, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January24.7206 mm88%
February25157 mm86%
March25.8194 mm85%
April26.2250 mm86%
May26.3172 mm87%
June25.8155 mm87%
July25.3169 mm87%
August25.4184 mm87%
September25.4195 mm87%
October25.5263 mm87%
November25.3314 mm88%
December24.8263 mm89%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Kuala Lumpur?

May, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Kuala Lumpur?

January, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Kuala Lumpur?

November carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))