Climate and average weather in Limbang

In Limbang, 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 December to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Limbang typically varies from 23°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 35°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Limbang for warm-weather activities are from early June to early September and early December to late March.

Hottest
Apr
33°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
Oct
241 mm
Driest
Mar
137 mm
Rain / yr
2225 mm
274 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
5 m
4.8°N
Clearest
Apr
78% cloud

Limbang is town in Malaysia.

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

Limbang 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 December to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Limbang stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 33°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 23°C and high of 31°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3123
Feb3123
Mar3224
Apr3324
May3224
Jun3224
Jul3223
Aug3224
Sep3224
Oct3123
Nov3123
Dec3123

How hot and cold Limbang 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, Limbang feels like about 41°C (around April 30). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 73 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36312323
Feb36312323
Mar38322424
Apr40332424
May40322424
Jun39322424
Jul38322323
Aug38322424
Sep38322324
Oct38312323
Nov38312323
Dec37312323

Average hourly temperature in Limbang

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°C.

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

Limbang 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° / 23°19322.411.83.2
Feb31° / 23°14318.211.83.3
Mar32° / 24°13720.7122.9
Apr33° / 24°16823.312.12.5
May32° / 24°17723.412.22.5
Jun32° / 24°17520.512.32.8
Jul32° / 23°16820.712.22.8
Aug32° / 24°16921.312.22.7
Sep32° / 24°18023.2122.6
Oct31° / 23°24126.911.92.5
Nov31° / 23°24027.211.82.5
Dec31° / 23°23325.711.72.7

Chance of rain

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

Limbang gets about 2225 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 4.0 months, from around Sep 14 to Jan 12, peaking in November at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 27.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 241 mm over about 27 wet days; March is the driest, with 137 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 3 · 90%Feb 27 · 63%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7322
Feb6518
Mar6721
Apr7823
May7523
Jun6921
Jul6721
Aug6921
Sep7723
Oct8727
Nov9027
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Limbang collects about 2225 mm of rain across 274 wet days — roughly 185 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 241 mm, while March is the driest at just 137 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec193143137168177175168169180241240233
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan19322
Feb14318
Mar13721
Apr16823
May17723
Jun17521
Jul16821
Aug16921
Sep18023
Oct24127
Nov24027
Dec23326

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Limbang, 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 February 5 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around September 6. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 20% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 7 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around February 4. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 2 · 22%Oct 16 · 6%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1090
Feb1585
Mar2080
Apr1981
May1684
Jun1684
Jul1783
Aug1684
Sep1288
Oct793
Nov793
Dec793

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, Limbang 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)
Jan11.86:376:22
Feb11.86:396:30
Mar12.06:316:29
Apr12.16:176:23
May12.26:106:23
Jun12.36:126:28
Jul12.26:186:33
Aug12.26:196:29
Sep12.06:146:15
Oct11.96:086:02
Nov11.86:125:59
Dec11.76:246:08

Sunny days

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

Limbang 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.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomymixedMar 183 daysOct 220 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
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.

Limbang 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 (%)
Jan24949
Feb16040
Mar15445
Apr03069
May02080
Jun03763
Jul05347
Aug05248
Sep05050
Oct04456
Nov03169
Dec03862

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 Limbang is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 6 · 6 km/hApr 22 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Limbang

In seasonPeak

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

Limbang 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 Limbang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Limbang 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 Limbang 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
Jan3.1poor
Feb3.3poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr2.5poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.7poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct2.5poor
Nov2.5poor
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 time of year to visit Limbang for hot-weather activities is from early December to early October, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 4.9

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 Limbang, 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.

Limbang 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 April, Limbang sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Limbang

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 18 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in February 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
Feb28Warm
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov30Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Limbang 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 Limbang peaks around February 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 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 14Nov 23UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Limbang

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
May8.56.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Limbang 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 Limbang is worst in September — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateSep 1525 µg/m³Dec 1916 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr22Moderate
May23Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct20Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Limbang 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. Limbang banks about 6,425 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)
Jan525
Feb481
Mar551
Apr546
May565
Jun537
Jul550
Aug554
Sep532
Oct537
Nov516
Dec531

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.

Limbang receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.5 and 5.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 85.5 kWhDec 204.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.7Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Limbang?

Limbang sits at 4.8°N, 115.0°E, 5 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Bangar, 9.0 km away.

Topography around Limbang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Limbang has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 205 m around an average of 23 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 425 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,326 m.

The land around Limbang is covered by trees (63%) within 3 km, trees (66%) within 16 km, and trees (63%) and water (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
205 m
16 km
425 m
80 km
2,326 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Bangar 9.0 km · Bandar Seri Begawan 17 km · Mentiri 24 km · Sengkurong 24 km · Serasa 30 km · Muara 31 km · Tutong 40 km · Lawas 46 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 Limbang (4.7548°, 115.0101°, elevation 5 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).