Climate averages 1991–2020

Sitiawan weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 211 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Sitiawan: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 211 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Teluk Intan (42 km away). In January its highs average 29.1°C, 0.6°C warmer than Sitiawan, with 142 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Sitiawan ranks joint 52nd of 72 for the warmest January highs and 52nd of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Sitiawan is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 211 mm to 156 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

Sitiawan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sitiawan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.4°C24.2°C	24.2°C	211	25.8	11.912 h
February	29.0°C24.4°C	24.4°C	156	22.3	12.012 h
March	29.4°C24.9°C	24.9°C	213	27.2	12.112 h
April	29.5°C25.2°C	25.2°C	235	28.4	12.212 h
May	29.7°C25.4°C	25.4°C	204	25.9	12.312 h
June	29.6°C25.4°C	25.4°C	133	19.9	12.412 h
July	29.3°C25.1°C	25.1°C	136	20.8	12.312 h
August	29.2°C25.0°C	25.0°C	163	22.4	12.312 h
September	29.0°C24.8°C	24.8°C	209	24.1	12.112 h
October	28.6°C24.7°C	24.7°C	282	27.6	12.012 h
November	28.4°C24.5°C	24.5°C	356	28.8	11.912 h
December	28.2°C24.4°C	24.4°C	297	27.8	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Sitiawan

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