Climate averages 1991–2020

Kuching weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 422 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Kuching: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 422 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 02 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Singkawang (166 km away). In January its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Kuching, with 283 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kuching ranks joint 49th of 72 for the warmest January highs and 72nd of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Kuching is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 422 mm to 314 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

Kuching climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kuching, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.5°C23.5°C	23.5°C	422	28.9	12.012 h
February	28.7°C23.6°C	23.6°C	314	25.2	12.112 h
March	29.5°C23.8°C	23.8°C	276	28.2	12.112 h
April	30.0°C24.2°C	24.2°C	275	27.6	12.112 h
May	30.3°C24.5°C	24.5°C	245	26.4	12.212 h
June	30.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	191	22.0	12.212 h
July	30.2°C24.0°C	24.0°C	181	20.8	12.212 h
August	30.5°C24.0°C	24.0°C	200	22.1	12.212 h
September	30.2°C23.9°C	23.9°C	257	25.0	12.112 h
October	29.7°C23.8°C	23.8°C	328	29.0	12.112 h
November	29.2°C23.7°C	23.7°C	361	29.4	12.012 h
December	28.8°C23.6°C	23.6°C	423	29.4	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

Distance from Kuching

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