Climate and average weather in Donggongon

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

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Donggongon typically varies from 25°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 31°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Donggongon for warm-weather activities is from early January to mid April.

Hottest
May
29°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Oct
264 mm
Driest
Mar
94 mm
Rain / yr
2028 mm
242 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
13 m
5.9°N
Clearest
Mar
70% cloud

Donggongon is human settlement in Malaysia.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Donggongon 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 mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Donggongon stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 29°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2825
Feb2825
Mar2825
Apr2926
May2926
Jun2926
Jul2926
Aug2926
Sep2926
Oct2925
Nov2825
Dec2826

How hot and cold Donggongon 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, Donggongon feels like about 36°C (around April 28). About 298 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31282525
Feb31282525
Mar33282525
Apr35292626
May35292626
Jun34292626
Jul34292626
Aug34292626
Sep33292626
Oct33292525
Nov33282525
Dec32282526

Average hourly temperature in Donggongon

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 May afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 25°C.

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

Donggongon 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
Jan28° / 25°15318.511.74.8
Feb28° / 25°9814.211.85.3
Mar28° / 25°9416124.9
Apr29° / 26°11019.412.14.1
May29° / 26°16321.812.33.7
Jun29° / 26°18718.512.33.9
Jul29° / 26°16618.412.34.1
Aug29° / 26°1781812.24.1
Sep29° / 26°17319.9123.9
Oct29° / 25°26426.111.93.5
Nov28° / 25°22926.211.73.4
Dec28° / 26°21224.911.73.7

Chance of rain

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

Donggongon gets about 2028 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 3.6 months, from around Sep 19 to Jan 5, peaking in November at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 3.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 264 mm over about 26 wet days; March is the driest, with 94 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 14 · 88%Mar 3 · 46%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6119
Feb5014
Mar5216
Apr6519
May7022
Jun6319
Jul5818
Aug5818
Sep6720
Oct8326
Nov8726
Dec7925

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Donggongon collects about 2028 mm of rain across 242 wet days — roughly 169 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 264 mm, while March is the driest at just 94 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1539894110163187166178173264229212
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan15319
Feb9814
Mar9416
Apr11019
May16322
Jun18719
Jul16618
Aug17818
Sep17320
Oct26426
Nov22926
Dec21225

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Donggongon, 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 24 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around May 12. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 32% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 13 and lasts for 8.4 months, ending around January 23. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 6 · 36%Oct 30 · 10%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1882
Feb2674
Mar3268
Apr3169
May1981
Jun1585
Jul1585
Aug1585
Sep1387
Oct1288
Nov1189
Dec1387

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, Donggongon barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:346:16
Feb11.86:366:24
Mar12.06:266:24
Apr12.16:126:20
May12.36:046:20
Jun12.36:066:26
Jul12.36:126:31
Aug12.26:146:26
Sep12.06:096:11
Oct11.96:055:57
Nov11.76:095:53
Dec11.76:226:02

Sunny days

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

Donggongon averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 5 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around Jan 3 to May 3. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 1 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 175 daysNov 161 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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.

Donggongon 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 100% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressive
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan16731
Feb07129
Mar05149
Apr02278
May02377
Jun04852
Jul06930
Aug07228
Sep07129
Oct06436
Nov05050
Dec05346

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Donggongon is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around Dec 15 to Mar 12. The windiest month is January, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 13 to Jul 13, with April the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJan 31 · 10 km/hApr 25 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar8calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Donggongon

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Donggongon sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Pacific typhoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Donggongon

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Donggongon 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 time of year to visit Donggongon for general outdoor tourist activities is from early January to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 23 · 5.4

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb5.3fair
Mar4.9fair
Apr4.1fair
May3.7fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep3.9fair
Oct3.5poor
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.7fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Donggongon for hot-weather activities is from early January to late September, with a peak score in the first week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 6 · 6.0

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 Donggongon, 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.

Donggongon packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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 May, Donggongon sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Donggongon

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 24 km away) is warmest in June at about 30°C and coldest in February near 27°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr29Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Donggongon 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 Donggongon peaks around April 12 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeApr 12UV 14Dec 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Donggongon

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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)
Jan7.56
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55

Air quality in Donggongon 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 Donggongon is worst in September — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.6× the cleanest month (December, 10 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1416 µg/m³Dec 1710 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb11Good
Mar13Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun13Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Donggongon 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. Donggongon banks about 6,269 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)
Jan510
Feb458
Mar523
Apr526
May553
Jun532
Jul545
Aug545
Sep521
Oct526
Nov508
Dec522

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.

Donggongon receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.6 and 6.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 66.0 kWhDec 204.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.9Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Donggongon?

Donggongon sits at 5.9°N, 116.1°E, 13 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Putatan, 5.0 km away.

Topography around Donggongon

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Donggongon has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 210 m around an average of 28 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,120 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,023 m.

The land around Donggongon is covered by trees (56%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, trees (59%) and water (28%) within 16 km, and trees (56%) and water (41%) within 80 km.

3 km
210 m
16 km
1,120 m
80 km
4,023 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Putatan 5.0 km · Petagas 6.0 km · Kota Kinabalu 8.0 km · Kinarut 11 km · Papar 27 km · Tambunan 39 km · Ranau 62 km · Keningau 64 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 Donggongon (5.907°, 116.1015°, elevation 13 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).