Climate averages 1991–2020
Petaling Jaya weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Petaling Jaya: daytime highs average 30.1°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes May a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shah Alam (9 km away). In May its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Petaling Jaya, with 154 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Petaling Jaya ranks joint 28th of 72 for the warmest May highs and joint 5th of 72 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 72 cities is 30.1°C; Petaling Jaya is level with that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 154 mm to 97 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Petaling Jaya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.2°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 200 | 21.1 | 12.012 h |
| February | 30.0°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 126 | 16.5 | 12.012 h |
| March | 30.3°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 168 | 22.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.1°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 188 | 24.6 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 30.1°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 154 | 23.3 | 12.312 h |
| June | 30.2°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 97 | 16.8 | 12.312 h |
| July | 30.1°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 100 | 16.9 | 12.312 h |
| August | 30.1°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 109 | 18.6 | 12.212 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 129 | 20.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.6°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 187 | 24.6 | 12.112 h |
| November | 28.9°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 314 | 27.7 | 12.012 h |
| December | 28.7°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 280 | 26.1 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Shah Alam in MayMalaysia · 9 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 154 mm rain
- Kampung Baru Subang in MayMalaysia · 9 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 187 mm rain
- Kuala Lumpur in MayMalaysia · 10 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.6°C · 241 mm rain
- Bukit Jalil in MayMalaysia · 10 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 220 mm rain
- Puchong in MayMalaysia · 12 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 154 mm rain
- Bukit Rahman Putra in MayMalaysia · 13 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 187 mm rain
- Setapak in MayMalaysia · 17 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 241 mm rain
- Selayang Baru Utara in MayMalaysia · 18 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.9°C · 241 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 Petaling Jaya) is explained once on the Petaling Jaya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Shah Alam, Puchong and Klang lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.