Climate averages 1991–2020

Kuantan weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 193 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kuantan: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 23.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 193 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cukai (50 km away). In January its highs average 26.8°C, 0.6°C cooler than Kuantan, with 324 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kuantan ranks 69th of 72 for the warmest January highs and 35th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Kuantan is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 193 mm to 84 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

Kuantan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kuantan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.4°C23.3°C	23.3°C	193	19.5	11.912 h
February	28.2°C23.5°C	23.5°C	84	13.7	12.012 h
March	29.3°C24.0°C	24.0°C	143	18.5	12.112 h
April	30.1°C24.5°C	24.5°C	156	23.0	12.212 h
May	30.4°C24.8°C	24.8°C	195	26.1	12.312 h
June	30.1°C24.6°C	24.6°C	169	23.2	12.312 h
July	29.7°C24.3°C	24.3°C	164	23.2	12.312 h
August	29.8°C24.2°C	24.2°C	190	24.9	12.212 h
September	29.7°C24.1°C	24.1°C	214	24.2	12.112 h
October	29.3°C23.9°C	23.9°C	288	27.5	12.012 h
November	28.1°C23.7°C	23.7°C	331	28.7	11.912 h
December	27.4°C23.5°C	23.5°C	345	25.0	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 Kuantan

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