Climate and average weather in Bentung

In Bentung, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: early January to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bentung typically varies from 22°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 35°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Bentung for warm-weather activities are from early January to early March and late June to mid August.

Hottest
Apr
31°
Coldest
Dec
22°
Wettest
Nov
283 mm
Driest
Feb
100 mm
Rain / yr
2086 mm
270 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
95 m
3.5°N
Clearest
Feb
77% cloud

Bentung weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bentung, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Bentung stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 31°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2922
Feb3122
Mar3122
Apr3123
May3123
Jun3122
Jul3022
Aug3022
Sep3122
Oct3022
Nov2922
Dec2922

How hot and cold Bentung really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Bentung feels like about 36°C (around May 12). About 313 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292122
Feb33312222
Mar35312222
Apr35312323
May35312323
Jun35312222
Jul34302222
Aug34302222
Sep34312222
Oct34302222
Nov33292222
Dec32292222

Average hourly temperature in Bentung

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 22°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bentung weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan29° / 22°15019.211.84.0
Feb31° / 22°10014.311.93.8
Mar31° / 22°17421.4123.1
Apr31° / 23°19124.812.12.7
May31° / 23°17724.712.22.8
Jun31° / 22°13120.912.23.2
Jul30° / 22°12421.812.23.3
Aug30° / 22°15122.512.13.2
Sep31° / 22°15423.2123.1
Oct30° / 22°22125.611.92.9
Nov29° / 22°28327.411.82.9
Dec29° / 22°23224.611.83.5

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bentung gets about 2086 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around Aug 17 to Dec 25, peaking in November at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 7.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 283 mm over about 27 wet days; February is the driest, with 100 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 13 · 93%Feb 7 · 49%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6119
Feb5314
Mar7021
Apr8225
May8025
Jun7021
Jul7022
Aug7323
Sep7823
Oct8326
Nov9127
Dec7925

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bentung collects about 2086 mm of rain across 270 wet days — roughly 174 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 283 mm, while February is the driest at just 100 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec150100174191177131124151154221283232
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan15019
Feb10014
Mar17421
Apr19125
May17725
Jun13121
Jul12422
Aug15123
Sep15423
Oct22126
Nov28327
Dec23225

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bentung, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around January 5 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around April 26. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 23% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 9 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around January 4. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 13 · 25%Nov 5 · 4%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1684
Feb2278
Mar2377
Apr1882
May1387
Jun1783
Jul1585
Aug1288
Sep1090
Oct694
Nov595
Dec892

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. Close to the equator, Bentung barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 12 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.87:277:16
Feb11.97:307:24
Mar12.07:237:21
Apr12.17:107:15
May12.27:047:13
Jun12.27:077:19
Jul12.27:127:24
Aug12.17:137:20
Sep12.07:067:07
Oct11.97:006:55
Nov11.87:036:53
Dec11.87:157:02

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bentung gets about 1 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 3 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyMar 113 daysNov 20 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Bentung is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 99% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan138610
Feb443530
Mar324730
Apr07912
May04906
Jun08902
Jul012880
Aug014860
Sep015850
Oct09910
Nov04960
Dec013870

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Bentung is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 2 · 5 km/hApr 17 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr3calm
May3calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov3calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Bentung

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bentung throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late February, Bentung is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Bentung for general outdoor tourist activities run from late June to mid August and again from early December to early March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 17 · 4.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.1fair
Feb3.8fair
Mar3.1poor
Apr2.7poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct2.9poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec3.5fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Bentung for hot-weather activities run from mid June to mid August and again from late December to late March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 6 · 5.7

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bentung, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Bentung packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Bentung sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 25 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bentung by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bentung peaks around February 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 10 at about 10 (extreme).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 19UV 15Jul 10UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Bentung

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Bentung by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Bentung is worst in September — around 33 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (December, 19 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateSep 1633 µg/m³Dec 1919 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar25Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May25Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug29Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct29Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bentung is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bentung banks about 5,913 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan476
Feb453
Mar520
Apr509
May527
Jun500
Jul503
Aug502
Sep486
Oct500
Nov467
Dec471

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bentung receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 5.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Jan 30 to Jun 9. The brightest month is March, averaging about 5.4 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 55.5 kWhDec 144.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.1Bright
Dec4.0Moderate

Where is Bentung?

Bentung sits at 3.5°N, 101.9°E, 95 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Bentong Town, 1.0 km away.

Topography around Bentung

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bentung.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bentung has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 459 m around an average of 186 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,617 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,184 m.

The land around Bentung is covered by trees (83%) within 3 km, trees (94%) within 16 km, and trees (91%) within 80 km.

3 km
459 m
16 km
1,617 m
80 km
2,184 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Bentong Town 1.0 km · Fraser's Hill 27 km · Kuala Kubu Baharu 28 km · Raub 29 km · Hulu Yam Lama 30 km · Serendah 38 km · Taman Melawati 40 km · Taman Melati 40 km

Malaysia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / G / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 32% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,125
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
95%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
22.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 581
Religion
Muslim 64%Buddhist 19%Christian 9%Hindu 6%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bentung (3.5316°, 101.9038°, elevation 95 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).