Climate averages 1991–2020

Malacca weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 114 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Malacca: daytime highs average 28.8°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 114 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 00 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Muar (40 km away). In January its highs average 28.7°C, about as warm as Malacca, with 121 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Malacca ranks joint 39th of 72 for the warmest January highs and 7th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Malacca is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 114 mm to 77 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

Malacca climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Malacca, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.8°C24.2°C	24.2°C	114	16.4	12.012 h
February	29.6°C24.4°C	24.4°C	77	12.8	12.012 h
March	29.8°C24.9°C	24.9°C	150	22.3	12.112 h
April	29.5°C25.2°C	25.2°C	206	26.3	12.212 h
May	29.4°C25.6°C	25.6°C	217	26.2	12.212 h
June	29.2°C25.6°C	25.6°C	181	23.0	12.212 h
July	28.8°C25.3°C	25.3°C	185	23.8	12.212 h
August	28.7°C25.1°C	25.1°C	193	24.8	12.212 h
September	28.7°C25.0°C	25.0°C	189	24.2	12.112 h
October	28.7°C24.9°C	24.9°C	221	25.9	12.112 h
November	28.5°C24.7°C	24.7°C	271	27.8	12.012 h
December	28.4°C24.5°C	24.5°C	218	24.3	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 Malacca

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