Climate averages 1991–2020
Kuala Lumpur weather
in October.
A hot, very wet month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Kuala Lumpur: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 293 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Setapak (9 km away). In October its highs average 29.5°C, about as warm as Kuala Lumpur, with 293 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur ranks joint 22nd of 72 for the warmest October highs and joint 51st of 72 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 72 cities is 29.2°C; Kuala Lumpur is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 293 mm to 371 mm.
The annual picture
October 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
Kuala Lumpur climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 201 | 20.4 | 12.012 h |
| February | 30.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 166 | 17.6 | 12.012 h |
| March | 30.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 263 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 296 | 27.8 | 12.212 h |
| May | 30.0°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 241 | 26.3 | 12.312 h |
| June | 30.0°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 173 | 22.8 | 12.312 h |
| July | 29.8°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 181 | 24.7 | 12.312 h |
| August | 29.7°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 214 | 25.5 | 12.212 h |
| September | 29.6°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 234 | 25.2 | 12.112 h |
| October, selected | 29.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 293 | 26.4 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.9°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 371 | 28.0 | 12.012 h |
| December | 28.7°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 275 | 25.3 | 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
October in nearby cities
- Setapak in OctoberMalaysia · 9 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.9°C · 293 mm rain
- Ampang in OctoberMalaysia · 9 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.1°C · 293 mm rain
- Petaling Jaya in OctoberMalaysia · 10 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 23.3°C · 187 mm rain
- Bukit Jalil in OctoberMalaysia · 10 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.8°C · 292 mm rain
- Selayang Baru Utara in OctoberMalaysia · 13 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.2°C · 293 mm rain
- Bandar Mahkota Cheras in OctoberMalaysia · 16 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.7°C · 292 mm rain
- Bukit Rahman Putra in OctoberMalaysia · 16 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.9°C · 240 mm rain
- Kampung Baru Subang in OctoberMalaysia · 17 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.5°C · 240 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 Kuala Lumpur) is explained once on the Kuala Lumpur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Selayang Baru Utara, Setapak and Ampang lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.