Climate averages 1991–2020

Port Dickson weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the joint 9th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 137 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Port Dickson: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 137 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 59 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sepang (19 km away). In January its highs average 28.6°C, about as warm as Port Dickson, with 175 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Port Dickson ranks joint 34th of 72 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Port Dickson is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 137 mm to 86 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

Port Dickson climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Port Dickson, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.9°C23.9°C	23.9°C	137	18.2	12.012 h
February	29.6°C24.1°C	24.1°C	86	14.8	12.012 h
March	29.9°C24.7°C	24.7°C	145	21.9	12.112 h
April	29.7°C25.0°C	25.0°C	192	25.8	12.212 h
May	29.6°C25.3°C	25.3°C	218	26.7	12.212 h
June	29.5°C25.3°C	25.3°C	188	23.7	12.312 h
July	29.2°C25.0°C	25.0°C	208	25.0	12.312 h
August	29.1°C24.8°C	24.8°C	210	26.3	12.212 h
September	29.1°C24.7°C	24.7°C	214	25.3	12.112 h
October	28.9°C24.6°C	24.6°C	236	27.0	12.112 h
November	28.6°C24.4°C	24.4°C	301	28.2	12.012 h
December	28.5°C24.1°C	24.1°C	244	25.7	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 Port Dickson

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