Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Bharu weather
in December.
A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a warm month in Kota Bharu: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 412 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes December a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 46 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pasir Mas (14 km away). In December its highs average 27.6°C, about as warm as Kota Bharu, with 412 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Bharu ranks joint 67th of 72 for the warmest December highs and joint 66th of 72 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 72 cities is 28.5°C; Kota Bharu is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 27.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 412 mm to 173 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Kota Bharu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.7°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 173 | 20.3 | 11.812 h |
| February | 28.6°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 83 | 13.5 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.0°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 114 | 15.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 31.1°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 118 | 18.6 | 12.312 h |
| May | 31.3°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 178 | 26.0 | 12.412 h |
| June | 31.0°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 183 | 24.9 | 12.512 h |
| July | 30.7°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 185 | 25.3 | 12.412 h |
| August | 30.7°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 213 | 26.0 | 12.312 h |
| September | 30.3°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 244 | 27.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.3°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 310 | 29.1 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.2°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 384 | 27.9 | 11.812 h |
| December, selected | 27.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 412 | 26.0 | 11.812 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
December in nearby cities
- Pasir Mas in DecemberMalaysia · 14 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 22.5°C · 412 mm rain
- Pasir Puteh in DecemberMalaysia · 37 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 23.1°C · 471 mm rain
- Kuala Krai in DecemberMalaysia · 66 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 22.3°C · 381 mm rain
- Yala in DecemberThailand · 116 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 22.3°C · 236 mm rain
- Kuala Nerus in DecemberMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 22.6°C · 490 mm rain
- Kuala Terengganu in DecemberMalaysia · 133 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 23.3°C · 422 mm rain
- Pendang in DecemberMalaysia · 196 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.0°C · 160 mm rain
- Sungai Petani in DecemberMalaysia · 201 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.2°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 Kota Bharu) is explained once on the Kota Bharu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pasir Mas lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.