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Kuantan weather

Terengganu · 548,014 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:10

Raining now Air: Moderate Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sun

25°

Rain showers

Feels like 37°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

5 km/h

Humidity

92 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

56 %

Storm

Rise 06:50 Set 18:50 Day 11 h 59 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Rain showers

24°

Feels like 35°

Wind ↑ W 6 km/h

Humidity 96 %

💧 0.2 mm

Morning

Overcast

30°24°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ W 4 km/h

Humidity 65 %

Afternoon

Rain showers

31°29°

Feels like 43°

Wind ↑ ENE 10 km/h

Humidity 71 %

💧 0.8 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain showers

27°25°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ NE 4 km/h

Humidity 86 %

💧 1.1 mm

⚡ storm

08:00

24°

W 4

11:00

30°

SW 2

14:00

31°

ENE 6

17:00

29°

0.8mm

ENE 10

20:00

27°

1.1mm

NE 3

23:00

25°

NNW 4

02:00

25°

WNW 3

05:00

23°

0.1mm

WNW 3

Kuantan forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Kuantan climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in January to 32 °C in May, and the coolest nights (January) average 23 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,620 mm of rain — more than 95% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 20 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 54 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 31 °C, against a usual 31 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	23 °C	202 mm
Feb	30 °C	24 °C	94 mm
Mar	31 °C	24 °C	155 mm
Apr	32 °C	25 °C	169 mm
May	32 °C	25 °C	208 mm
Jun	32 °C	25 °C	182 mm
Jul	31 °C	24 °C	177 mm
Aug	31 °C	24 °C	205 mm
Sep	31 °C	24 °C	230 mm
Oct	31 °C	24 °C	304 mm
Nov	29 °C	24 °C	343 mm
Dec	29 °C	24 °C	357 mm
Whole year	30 °C	24 °C	2,620 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.81° N, 103.33° 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 Kuantan: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.521µg/m³

PM1022µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kuantan

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

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

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

Moon over Kuantan

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 19:47 Set 07:39

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 Kuantan

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

Kuantan weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kuantan, Terengganu: 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 25 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 31 °C and around 2 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

Kuala Terengganu 171 km 26°

Setapak 190 km 23°

Selayang Baru Utara 194 km 23°

Seremban 195 km 24°

Kuala Lumpur 196 km 23°

Kluang 198 km 25°

Taman Petaling 198 km 23°

Petaling Jaya 206 km 25°

Kuantan weather data for developers

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