Climate and average weather in Muar

In Muar, 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: late December to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Muar typically varies from 25°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 31°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 Muar for warm-weather activities are from mid July to early August and late December to mid March.

Hottest
Mar
30°
Coldest
Dec
25°
Wettest
Nov
275 mm
Driest
Feb
74 mm
Rain / yr
2210 mm
276 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
6 m
2.0°N
Clearest
Feb
76% cloud

Muar is town in Johor and district capital of Muar District.

Founded
1885

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

Muar 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 late December to mid March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Muar stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 25°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2925
Feb3025
Mar3025
Apr3026
May3026
Jun3026
Jul2926
Aug2926
Sep2926
Oct2926
Nov2925
Dec2925

How hot and cold Muar 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, Muar feels like about 37°C (around May 9). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292525
Feb33302525
Mar35302525
Apr36302626
May37302626
Jun36302626
Jul35292626
Aug34292626
Sep34292526
Oct34292526
Nov33292525
Dec32292525

Average hourly temperature in Muar

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 25°C.

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

Muar 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
Jan29° / 25°12116.311.94.4
Feb30° / 25°7412.611.94.5
Mar30° / 25°15022123.6
Apr30° / 26°20326123.1
May30° / 26°21326.612.13.1
Jun30° / 26°17522.712.13.5
Jul29° / 26°17522.712.13.7
Aug29° / 26°18524.212.13.6
Sep29° / 26°18023.8123.5
Oct29° / 26°22026.2123.3
Nov29° / 25°2752811.93.0
Dec29° / 25°23924.511.93.5

Chance of rain

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

Muar gets about 2210 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 4.4 months, from around Aug 9 to Dec 21, peaking in November at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 7.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 275 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 74 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 14 · 94%Feb 7 · 43%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5316
Feb4713
Mar7022
Apr8726
May8527
Jun7623
Jul7323
Aug7824
Sep8024
Oct8526
Nov9328
Dec7925

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Muar collects about 2210 mm of rain across 276 wet days — roughly 184 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 275 mm, while February is the driest at just 74 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12174150203213175175185180220275239
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan12116
Feb7413
Mar15022
Apr20326
May21327
Jun17523
Jul17523
Aug18524
Sep18024
Oct22026
Nov27528
Dec23925

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Muar, 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 9 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around April 23. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 25% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around August 14 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around January 8. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 8 · 28%Nov 16 · 5%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1783
Feb2575
Mar2476
Apr1783
May1882
Jun2377
Jul2377
Aug1783
Sep1486
Oct991
Nov595
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, Muar 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)
Jan11.97:227:16
Feb11.97:267:22
Mar12.07:207:19
Apr12.07:097:11
May12.17:037:09
Jun12.17:067:13
Jul12.17:127:19
Aug12.17:127:16
Sep12.07:047:04
Oct12.06:566:53
Nov11.96:586:52
Dec11.97:097:02

Sunny days

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

Muar averages about 2 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 3.1 months, from around Jan 23 to Apr 26. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 0 sunny days — about 92% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 34 daysNov 190 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
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.

Muar 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 (%)
Jan68411
Feb48510
Mar15841
Apr01585
May0397
Jun01288
Jul03169
Aug03763
Sep04456
Oct04753
Nov05446
Dec17623

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 Muar is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around Nov 24 to Mar 7. The windiest month is January, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 8 to Jul 4, with April the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 4 · 14 km/hApr 19 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar10calm
Apr8calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Muar

In seasonPeak

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

Muar 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 Muar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Muar 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 Muar for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July to early August and again from late December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 5 · 4.6

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.1poor
May3.1poor
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.5fair
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.0poor
Dec3.5fair

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 Muar for hot-weather activities is from late December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 7 · 6.1

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 Muar, 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.

Muar packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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, Muar sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Muar

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 20 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 Muar 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 Muar peaks around February 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 10 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 17UV 14Jul 10UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Muar

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
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Muar 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 Muar 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

Muar 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. Muar banks about 6,333 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)
Jan522
Feb483
Mar546
Apr532
May554
Jun535
Jul542
Aug536
Sep516
Oct534
Nov512
Dec523

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.

Muar receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.5 and 5.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 285.9 kWhDec 174.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.1Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Muar?

Muar sits at 2.0°N, 102.6°E, 6 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Bakri, 9.0 km away.

Topography around Muar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Muar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 20 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 243 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,226 m.

The land around Muar is covered by artificial surfaces (46%) and trees (21%) within 3 km, trees (45%) and water (42%) within 16 km, and trees (52%) and water (43%) within 80 km.

3 km
20 m
16 km
243 m
80 km
1,226 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Bakri 9.0 km · Merlimau 20 km · Bukit Gambir 21 km · Gerisek 24 km · Tangkak 25 km · Pagoh 25 km · Kampung Ayer Molek 33 km · Parit Sulung 36 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 Muar (2.0442°, 102.5689°, elevation 6 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).