10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
24°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ NE 3 km/h
Humidity 89 %
💧 1.8 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
24°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ NE 6 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 12.5 mm
⚡ storm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ NNW 1 km/h
Humidity 90 %
💧 0.5 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
24°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ NNE 2 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 8.6 mm
⚡ storm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
24°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ ENE 2 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 3.9 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
25°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ SW 4 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 4.9 mm
⚡ storm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ NE 3 km/h
Humidity 93 %
💧 2.6 mm
Evening
Rain showers
25°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ SSW 1 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 1.6 mm
⚡ storm
Kuala Lumpur forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Kuala Lumpur climate: what a normal year looks like
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from December to October; the typical peak is 32 °C in March.
A normal year brings roughly 2,850 mm of rain — more than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 18 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 56 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
30 °C
23 °C
218 mm
Feb
31 °C
23 °C
174 mm
Mar
32 °C
23 °C
255 mm
Apr
31 °C
23 °C
285 mm
May
31 °C
24 °C
227 mm
Jun
31 °C
23 °C
152 mm
Jul
31 °C
23 °C
161 mm
Aug
31 °C
23 °C
189 mm
Sep
31 °C
23 °C
216 mm
Oct
31 °C
23 °C
283 mm
Nov
30 °C
23 °C
386 mm
Dec
30 °C
23 °C
301 mm
Whole year
31 °C
23 °C
2,850 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.14° N, 101.69° 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 Kuala Lumpur: pollution and pollen
3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.524µg/m³
PM1024µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kuala Lumpur
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kuala Lumpur, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kuala Lumpur yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kuala Lumpur
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 19:55 Set 07:45
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kuala Lumpur
Curious about the weather in Kuala Lumpur on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kuala Lumpur weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 22 °C (feels like 30 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 23 °C to 30 °C and around 6 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.
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