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Alor Setar weather

Kedah · 417,800 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:57

Air: Fair Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sun

27°

Mainly clear

Feels like 38°C

Wind

9 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

84 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Rise 07:04 Set 18:59 Day 11 h 55 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

27°26°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ ESE 9 km/h

Humidity 84 %

Morning

Rain showers

26°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ E 6 km/h

Humidity 85 %

💧 0.5 mm

Afternoon

Mainly clear

31°28°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ SW 13 km/h

Humidity 69 %

💧 0.1 mm

Evening

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ NW 4 km/h

Humidity 80 %

💧 1.8 mm

⚡ storm

08:00

26°

0.4mm

E 6

11:00

26°

0.1mm

NE 4

14:00

31°

0.1mm

WNW 2

17:00

28°

SW 13

20:00

29°

1.2mm

NW 3

23:00

28°

0.6mm

ESE 4

02:00

27°

0.6mm

NNE 3

05:00

26°

1.1mm

ENE 9

Alor Setar forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.7° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Alor Setar climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to September; the typical peak is 34 °C in February.

A normal year brings roughly 2,300 mm of rain — more than 92% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 28 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 46 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 30 °C, against a usual 30 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	24 °C	59 mm
Feb	34 °C	24 °C	61 mm
Mar	34 °C	25 °C	150 mm
Apr	32 °C	25 °C	215 mm
May	32 °C	25 °C	243 mm
Jun	31 °C	25 °C	182 mm
Jul	31 °C	25 °C	187 mm
Aug	31 °C	25 °C	225 mm
Sep	30 °C	25 °C	258 mm
Oct	30 °C	25 °C	321 mm
Nov	30 °C	24 °C	248 mm
Dec	30 °C	24 °C	146 mm
Whole year	31 °C	25 °C	2,300 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.12° N, 100.36° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Alor Setar: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.513µg/m³

PM1015µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Alor Setar

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Alor Setar, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Alor Setar yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Alor Setar

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 19:55 Set 07:56

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Alor Setar

Curious about the weather in Alor Setar on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Alor Setar weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Alor Setar, Kedah: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 27 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 31 °C and around 4 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

Sungai Petani 55 km 25°

Kota Kuala Muda 59 km 27°

Ipoh 189 km 24°

Kota Bharu 208 km 25°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations