Climate averages 1991–2020

Ipoh weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 29.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 195 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Ipoh: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 21.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 195 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 53 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Taiping (49 km away). In January its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Ipoh, with 185 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Ipoh ranks joint 17th of 72 for the warmest January highs and 36th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Ipoh is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 195 mm to 143 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Ipoh climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Ipoh, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.4°C21.9°C	21.9°C	195	22.3	11.912 h
February	30.2°C22.1°C	22.1°C	143	19.1	12.012 h
March	30.3°C22.8°C	22.8°C	197	24.7	12.112 h
April	30.0°C23.2°C	23.2°C	227	27.5	12.212 h
May	30.0°C23.4°C	23.4°C	178	23.9	12.312 h
June	30.3°C23.3°C	23.3°C	90	16.5	12.412 h
July	30.6°C23.3°C	23.3°C	91	15.9	12.412 h
August	30.7°C23.4°C	23.4°C	110	17.9	12.312 h
September	30.1°C23.1°C	23.1°C	163	20.8	12.112 h
October	29.1°C22.8°C	22.8°C	243	26.0	12.012 h
November	28.7°C22.5°C	22.5°C	319	28.0	11.912 h
December	28.7°C22.1°C	22.1°C	261	25.8	11.912 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Ipoh

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ipoh) is explained once on the Ipoh year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.