Climate averages 1991–2020

Kuala Nerus weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 285 mm 24 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kuala Nerus: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 285 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kuala Terengganu (14 km away). In January its highs average 27.1°C, 0.8°C warmer than Kuala Nerus, with 208 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kuala Nerus ranks 72nd of 72 for the warmest January highs and 67th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Kuala Nerus is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 285 mm to 146 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

Kuala Nerus climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kuala Nerus, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.2°C22.2°C	22.2°C	285	23.6	11.812 h
February	27.1°C22.3°C	22.3°C	146	17.5	11.912 h
March	28.3°C22.8°C	22.8°C	187	18.9	12.112 h
April	29.3°C23.7°C	23.7°C	175	22.3	12.212 h
May	29.7°C24.2°C	24.2°C	225	26.2	12.412 h
June	29.5°C24.0°C	24.0°C	227	25.8	12.412 h
July	29.3°C23.7°C	23.7°C	229	26.2	12.412 h
August	29.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	275	27.6	12.312 h
September	29.0°C23.5°C	23.5°C	327	27.7	12.212 h
October	28.1°C23.2°C	23.2°C	387	29.8	12.012 h
November	26.9°C22.9°C	22.9°C	444	28.8	11.912 h
December	26.2°C22.6°C	22.6°C	490	26.7	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Kuala Nerus

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 Kuala Nerus) is explained once on the Kuala Nerus year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.