Climate and average weather in Gemas

In Gemas, 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 late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gemas typically varies from 24°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 36°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
33°
Coldest
Dec
24°
Wettest
Nov
249 mm
Driest
Feb
80 mm
Rain / yr
1858 mm
265 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
34 m
2.6°N
Clearest
Feb
79% cloud

Gemas is human settlement in Malaysia.

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

Gemas 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 late February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Gemas stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 33°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 24°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3124
Feb3224
Mar3324
Apr3225
May3225
Jun3225
Jul3124
Aug3124
Sep3124
Oct3124
Nov3124
Dec3024

How hot and cold Gemas 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, Gemas feels like about 40°C (around May 3). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 62 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34312324
Feb36322424
Mar38332424
Apr39322525
May40322525
Jun39322425
Jul37312424
Aug36312424
Sep36312424
Oct37312424
Nov36312424
Dec34302424

Average hourly temperature in Gemas

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 March afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 24°C.

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

Gemas 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
Jan31° / 24°12316.911.93.7
Feb32° / 24°8012.711.93.4
Mar33° / 24°15121.4122.6
Apr32° / 25°18325.312.12.3
May32° / 25°16724.812.12.5
Jun32° / 25°1232112.12.9
Jul31° / 24°12221.712.13.1
Aug31° / 24°13422.412.13.0
Sep31° / 24°13222.6122.9
Oct31° / 24°17924.711.92.7
Nov31° / 24°24927.611.92.5
Dec30° / 24°21524.111.93.1

Chance of rain

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

Gemas gets about 1858 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 15 to Dec 22, peaking in November at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 8.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 249 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 80 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 15 · 93%Feb 8 · 45%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5517
Feb4713
Mar6921
Apr8325
May8025
Jun7121
Jul6922
Aug7222
Sep7623
Oct8025
Nov9128
Dec7724

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gemas collects about 1858 mm of rain across 265 wet days — roughly 155 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 249 mm, while February is the driest at just 80 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12380151183167123122134132179249215
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan12317
Feb8013
Mar15121
Apr18325
May16725
Jun12321
Jul12222
Aug13422
Sep13223
Oct17925
Nov24928
Dec21524

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gemas, 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 3.1 months, ending around April 26. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 20% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 18 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around January 7. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 23 · 22%Nov 14 · 2%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1387
Feb2080
Mar1981
Apr1585
May1486
Jun1981
Jul1981
Aug1585
Sep1189
Oct892
Nov397
Dec694

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, Gemas barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 06 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.97:237:15
Feb11.97:277:22
Mar12.07:207:19
Apr12.17:087:11
May12.17:027:09
Jun12.17:057:14
Jul12.17:117:19
Aug12.17:117:16
Sep12.07:037:04
Oct11.96:566:53
Nov11.96:586:51
Dec11.97:107:01

Sunny days

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

Gemas gets about 1 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 2 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyMar 32 daysNov 210 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
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.

Gemas 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan13807
Feb17776
Mar77122
Apr03763
May01288
Jun03169
Jul05644
Aug06535
Sep06931
Oct06832
Nov06238
Dec28018

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 Gemas is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around Dec 2 to Mar 16. The windiest month is January, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 17 to Dec 1, with April the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 30 · 11 km/hApr 21 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar7calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Gemas

In seasonPeak

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

Gemas 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 Gemas

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid February, Gemas 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 Gemas for general outdoor tourist activities run from late June to mid August and again from mid December to late February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 12 · 3.8

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
Jan3.7fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar2.6poor
Apr2.3poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.5poor
Dec3.1poor

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 Gemas for hot-weather activities run from mid June to mid August and again from late December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 7 · 5.6

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 Gemas, 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.

Gemas packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°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 March, Gemas sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Gemas

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 57 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in January near 28°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
Jan28Tropical
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Gemas 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 Gemas peaks around February 20 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 12 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeFeb 20UV 15Jul 12UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Gemas

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
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Gemas 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 Gemas is worst in September — around 39 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.4× the cleanest month (February, 16 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateSep 1638 µg/m³Feb 816 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May28Moderate
Jun28Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug34Moderate
Sep39Poor
Oct34Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gemas 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. Gemas banks about 6,474 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan527
Feb500
Mar573
Apr554
May569
Jun542
Jul547
Aug545
Sep528
Oct549
Nov518
Dec524

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.

Gemas receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.1 and 5.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 35.5 kWhDec 194.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.7Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Gemas?

Gemas sits at 2.6°N, 102.6°E, 34 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Batu Anam, 11 km away.

Topography around Gemas

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gemas has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 69 m around an average of 40 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 221 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,226 m.

The land around Gemas is covered by trees (77%) within 3 km, trees (91%) within 16 km, and trees (85%) within 80 km.

3 km
69 m
16 km
221 m
80 km
1,226 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Batu Anam 11 km · Rompin 18 km · Taman Pelangi 19 km · Segamat 24 km · Bahau 34 km · Tangkak 36 km · Kampung Machap Baru 38 km · Kampung Selang 39 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 Gemas (2.5832°, 102.6117°, elevation 34 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).