Climate and average weather in Julau

In Julau, 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 December.

Best: early May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Julau typically varies from 23°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 33°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Julau for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early May to late October.

Hottest
May
31°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Dec
307 mm
Driest
Jul
164 mm
Rain / yr
2790 mm
301 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
27 m
2.0°N
Clearest
Jul
77% cloud

Julau is town in Malaysia.

Density
9/km²
people per km²

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

Julau 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 May to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Julau stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 31°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3023
Feb3023
Mar3123
Apr3124
May3124
Jun3124
Jul3123
Aug3123
Sep3123
Oct3023
Nov3023
Dec3023

How hot and cold Julau 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, Julau feels like about 39°C (around May 8). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34302323
Feb34302323
Mar36312323
Apr38312424
May39312424
Jun38312324
Jul37312323
Aug37312323
Sep36312323
Oct36302323
Nov35302323
Dec35302323

Average hourly temperature in Julau

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

Julau 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
Jan30° / 23°30227.311.92.9
Feb30° / 23°23523.111.93.0
Mar31° / 23°22126.4122.8
Apr31° / 24°23026.7122.6
May31° / 24°20425.412.12.8
Jun31° / 24°16721.512.13.1
Jul31° / 23°1642012.13.3
Aug31° / 23°18421.512.13.1
Sep31° / 23°23724.7122.8
Oct30° / 23°25827.8122.7
Nov30° / 23°28128.311.92.6
Dec30° / 23°30728.711.92.7

Chance of rain

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

Julau gets about 2790 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 4.7 months, from around Sep 19 to Feb 8, peaking in November at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 1.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 307 mm over about 29 wet days; July is the driest, with 164 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 11 · 95%Aug 1 · 62%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8827
Feb8223
Mar8626
Apr8827
May8225
Jun7222
Jul6520
Aug7022
Sep8225
Oct9028
Nov9428
Dec9229

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Julau collects about 2790 mm of rain across 301 wet days — roughly 233 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 307 mm, while July is the driest at just 164 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec302235221230204167164184237258281307
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan30227
Feb23523
Mar22126
Apr23027
May20425
Jun16722
Jul16420
Aug18422
Sep23725
Oct25828
Nov28128
Dec30729

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Julau, 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 April 11 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around September 12. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 23% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 13 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around April 10. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 21 · 25%Dec 25 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan397
Feb496
Mar694
Apr1189
May1783
Jun2377
Jul2278
Aug1684
Sep1090
Oct595
Nov397
Dec298

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, Julau 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)
Jan11.96:456:38
Feb11.96:496:45
Mar12.06:426:42
Apr12.06:316:34
May12.16:266:31
Jun12.16:296:36
Jul12.16:356:41
Aug12.16:346:38
Sep12.06:266:27
Oct12.06:196:16
Nov11.96:206:15
Dec11.96:326:25

Sunny days

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

Julau 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.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyAug 13 daysJan 230 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr0Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
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.

Julau 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 (%)
Jan07327
Feb07425
Mar05842
Apr02773
May01486
Jun03268
Jul05446
Aug15940
Sep05545
Oct06139
Nov05644
Dec06040

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 3 · 5 km/hApr 25 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Julau

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Julau 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. In Julau it holds close to 3.3 all year, so any month is about as good as another for general outdoor tourist activities.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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
Jan2.9poor
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr2.6poor
May2.7poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep2.8poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.6poor
Dec2.7poor

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 Julau for hot-weather activities run from mid January to mid March and again from early May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 5.0

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 Julau, 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.

Julau 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 May, Julau sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 25 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Julau 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 Julau peaks around March 15 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 14 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 15UV 15Jul 14UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Julau

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 March 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)
Jan86.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Julau 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 Julau is worst in September — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodSep 1325 µg/m³Dec 1411 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb12Moderate
Mar13Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep26Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Julau 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. Julau banks about 6,171 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)
Jan506
Feb463
Mar525
Apr517
May540
Jun517
Jul531
Aug531
Sep508
Oct520
Nov501
Dec512

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.

Julau receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 3.9 and 5.1 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightAug 65.1 kWhDec 263.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.0Bright
Feb4.3Bright
Mar4.6Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.1Bright
Dec3.9Moderate

Where is Julau?

Julau sits at 2.0°N, 111.9°E, 27 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Sibu Jaya, 26 km away.

Topography around Julau

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Julau has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 114 m around an average of 42 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 249 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,241 m.

The land around Julau is covered by trees (98%) within 3 km, trees (99%) within 16 km, and trees (93%) within 80 km.

3 km
114 m
16 km
249 m
80 km
1,241 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Sibu Jaya 26 km · Kanowit 28 km · Pakan 30 km · Sibu 33 km · Maradong 34 km · Sarikei 46 km · Saratok 72 km · Selangau 72 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 Julau (2.0167°, 111.9167°, elevation 27 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).