Climate averages 1991–2020
Johor Bahru weather
in January.
A hot, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Johor Bahru: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 201 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Woodlands (5 km away). In January its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Johor Bahru, with 201 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Johor Bahru ranks joint 55th of 72 for the warmest January highs and joint 41st of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Johor Bahru is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 201 mm to 133 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Johor Bahru climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 201 | 21.7 | 12.012 h |
| February | 29.0°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 133 | 17.3 | 12.112 h |
| March | 29.6°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 209 | 23.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.6°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 242 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| May | 29.4°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 217 | 28.0 | 12.212 h |
| June | 29.2°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 173 | 24.8 | 12.212 h |
| July | 28.7°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 162 | 24.0 | 12.212 h |
| August | 28.7°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 167 | 24.8 | 12.212 h |
| September | 28.9°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 170 | 23.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.0°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 242 | 26.4 | 12.112 h |
| November | 28.6°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 334 | 28.4 | 12.112 h |
| December | 28.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 313 | 27.3 | 12.012 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
- Woodlands in JanuarySingapore · 5 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 24.2°C · 201 mm rain
- Mukim Pulai in JanuaryMalaysia · 13 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.7°C · 201 mm rain
- Jurong Town in JanuarySingapore · 15 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 24.1°C · 161 mm rain
- Ulu Tiram in JanuaryMalaysia · 16 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 23.3°C · 201 mm rain
- Pasir Gudang in JanuaryMalaysia · 16 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 23.9°C · 220 mm rain
- Iskandar Puteri in JanuaryMalaysia · 17 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 176 mm rain
- Taman Senai in JanuaryMalaysia · 20 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.3°C · 201 mm rain
- Singapore in JanuarySingapore · 22 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 24.7°C · 161 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Johor Bahru) is explained once on the Johor Bahru year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mukim Pulai, Woodlands and Ulu Tiram lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.