Climate averages 1991–2020

Sibu weather
in July.

A hot, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 30.3°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 174 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Sibu: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 174 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes July a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 14 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bintulu (166 km away). In July its highs average 30.5°C, about as warm as Sibu, with 170 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Sibu ranks joint 10th of 72 for the warmest July highs and joint 50th of 72 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 72 cities is 29.8°C; Sibu is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 30.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 174 mm to 192 mm.

The annual picture

July 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

Sibu climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sibu, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	29.2°C22.9°C	22.9°C	312	27.8	12.012 h
February	29.6°C23.0°C	23.0°C	243	24.1	12.012 h
March	30.2°C23.3°C	23.3°C	227	26.0	12.112 h
April	30.5°C23.6°C	23.6°C	230	26.8	12.212 h
May	30.5°C23.9°C	23.9°C	218	25.8	12.212 h
June	30.4°C23.7°C	23.7°C	177	21.2	12.312 h
July, selected	30.3°C23.5°C	23.5°C	174	20.7	12.212 h
August	30.5°C23.5°C	23.5°C	192	21.2	12.212 h
September	30.3°C23.4°C	23.4°C	242	24.6	12.112 h
October	29.9°C23.3°C	23.3°C	280	28.0	12.112 h
November	29.5°C23.2°C	23.2°C	307	28.7	12.012 h
December	29.2°C23.0°C	23.0°C	344	29.0	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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Sibu

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