Climate and average weather in Lahat

In Lahat, 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: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lahat typically varies from 23°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 35°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Aug
32°
Coldest
Dec
23°
Wettest
Nov
319 mm
Driest
Jun
90 mm
Rain / yr
2214 mm
268 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
43 m
4.5°N
Clearest
Feb
73% cloud

Lahat 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 mid May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Lahat stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 32°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3023
Feb3123
Mar3123
Apr3124
May3124
Jun3223
Jul3223
Aug3223
Sep3123
Oct3123
Nov3023
Dec3023

How hot and cold Lahat 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, Lahat feels like about 37°C (around May 1). 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
Feb35312323
Mar36312323
Apr37312424
May37312424
Jun36322323
Jul36322323
Aug36322323
Sep35312323
Oct35312323
Nov34302323
Dec34302323

Average hourly temperature in Lahat

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 August afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 23°C.

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

Lahat 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°19422.211.83.3
Feb31° / 23°1411911.93.3
Mar31° / 23°19724.7122.8
Apr31° / 24°22727.512.12.4
May31° / 24°17823.912.22.8
Jun32° / 23°9016.512.33.3
Jul32° / 23°9115.912.23.3
Aug32° / 23°11017.912.13.0
Sep31° / 23°16320.9122.9
Oct31° / 23°24326.111.92.7
Nov30° / 23°3192811.82.7
Dec30° / 23°26125.811.73.0

Chance of rain

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

Lahat gets about 2214 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 25 to Jan 13, peaking in November at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 1.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 319 mm over about 28 wet days; June is the driest, with 90 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 8 · 94%Aug 1 · 47%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7322
Feb6819
Mar8025
Apr9128
May7724
Jun5617
Jul5116
Aug5818
Sep7021
Oct8426
Nov9328
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lahat collects about 2214 mm of rain across 268 wet days — roughly 185 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 319 mm, while June is the driest at just 90 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1941411972271789091110163243319261
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan19422
Feb14119
Mar19725
Apr22728
May17824
Jun9017
Jul9116
Aug11018
Sep16321
Oct24326
Nov31928
Dec26126

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lahat, 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 December 24 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around April 22. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 28% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 27 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around December 23. The cloudiest month is October, 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 15 · 29%Oct 8 · 3%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb2872
Mar2377
Apr1486
May991
Jun1486
Jul1387
Aug991
Sep694
Oct397
Nov595
Dec1189

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, Lahat 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)
Jan11.87:327:18
Feb11.97:357:26
Mar12.07:267:25
Apr12.17:137:19
May12.27:067:18
Jun12.37:087:24
Jul12.27:147:29
Aug12.17:157:24
Sep12.07:097:11
Oct11.97:046:58
Nov11.87:076:55
Dec11.77:207:04

Sunny days

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

Lahat averages about 1 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 4 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Dec 22 to Mar 27. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 44 daysOct 90 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

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.

Lahat 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
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan03898
Feb038611
Mar018019
Apr006337
May006139
Jun038611
Jul112862
Aug013861
Sep08911
Oct01945
Nov008713
Dec018910

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 29 · 5 km/hJan 1 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan3calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov3calm
Dec3calm

Hazard calendar for Lahat

In seasonPeak

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

Lahat 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 Lahat

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Lahat 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 Lahat for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to late October and again from late November to late March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 30 · 3.4

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
Jan3.3poor
Feb3.3poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr2.4poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct2.7poor
Nov2.7poor
Dec3.0poor

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 Lahat for hot-weather activities run from mid May to late September and again from late December to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 24 · 5.4

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 Lahat, 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.

Lahat packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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 August, Lahat sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Lahat

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 47 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in December near 29°C.

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

28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan29Tropical
Feb30Tropical
Mar30Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Lahat 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 Lahat peaks around February 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 19UV 15Dec 12UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Lahat

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 8.5 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
Feb8.56.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86.5
Jun85.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Lahat 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 Lahat is worst in September — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateSep 2137 µg/m³Dec 1429 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan30Moderate
Feb31Moderate
Mar35Moderate
Apr35Moderate
May32Moderate
Jun33Moderate
Jul35Moderate
Aug35Moderate
Sep38Poor
Oct37Poor
Nov29Moderate
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Lahat 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. Lahat banks about 6,239 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan511
Feb471
Mar535
Apr525
May542
Jun522
Jul542
Aug546
Sep518
Oct524
Nov496
Dec507

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.

Lahat receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.3 and 5.7 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 35.7 kWhNov 294.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Lahat?

Lahat sits at 4.5°N, 101.0°E, 43 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Ipoh, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Lahat

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lahat has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 302 m around an average of 66 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 819 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,150 m.

The land around Lahat is covered by trees (49%) and artificial surfaces (31%) within 3 km, trees (72%) within 16 km, and trees (77%) within 80 km.

3 km
302 m
16 km
819 m
80 km
2,150 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Ipoh 7.0 km · Batu Gajah 8.0 km · Kampung Manjoi 10 km · Parit 15 km · Bercham 16 km · Chemor 22 km · Sungai Siput 24 km · Kuala Kangsar 28 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 Lahat (4.5388°, 101.0365°, elevation 43 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).