Climate and average weather in Mukah

In Mukah, 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: late November to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mukah typically varies from 25°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 31°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Mukah for warm-weather activities is from late November to mid October.

Hottest
May
29°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Dec
397 mm
Driest
Mar
152 mm
Rain / yr
2718 mm
289 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
6 m
2.9°N
Clearest
Jun
75% cloud

Mukah is human settlement in Malaysia.

Density
4/km²
people per km²
Founded
~700 CE

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

Mukah 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 November to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Mukah stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 29°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2725
Feb2725
Mar2825
Apr2926
May2926
Jun2926
Jul2926
Aug2926
Sep2926
Oct2825
Nov2825
Dec2825

How hot and cold Mukah 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, Mukah feels like about 35°C (around May 17). About 209 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30272525
Feb30272525
Mar32282525
Apr34292626
May35292626
Jun35292626
Jul34292626
Aug34292626
Sep33292526
Oct32282525
Nov32282525
Dec31282525

Average hourly temperature in Mukah

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 25°C.

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

Mukah 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
Jan27° / 25°34927.511.93.6
Feb27° / 25°20822.611.94.0
Mar28° / 25°15223.6124.1
Apr29° / 26°1562412.13.7
May29° / 26°16422.512.13.8
Jun29° / 26°1742012.24.0
Jul29° / 26°17119.412.24.1
Aug29° / 26°17320.812.14.0
Sep29° / 26°21123.6123.7
Oct28° / 25°26827.611.93.3
Nov28° / 25°29528.611.93.3
Dec28° / 25°39729.111.83.4

Chance of rain

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

Mukah gets about 2718 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 4.9 months, from around Sep 25 to Feb 19, peaking in November at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 29.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 397 mm over about 29 wet days; March is the driest, with 152 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 14 · 96%Jul 29 · 61%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8928
Feb8123
Mar7624
Apr8024
May7223
Jun6720
Jul6319
Aug6721
Sep7824
Oct8928
Nov9529
Dec9329

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mukah collects about 2718 mm of rain across 289 wet days — roughly 226 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 397 mm, while March is the driest at just 152 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec349208152156164174171173211268295397
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan34928
Feb20823
Mar15224
Apr15624
May16423
Jun17420
Jul17119
Aug17321
Sep21124
Oct26828
Nov29529
Dec39729

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mukah, 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 March 11 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around September 13. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 26% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 14 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around March 10. The cloudiest month is December, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 22 · 28%Dec 22 · 4%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan892
Feb1090
Mar1684
Apr2179
May2278
Jun2674
Jul2674
Aug1981
Sep1486
Oct991
Nov694
Dec595

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

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.96:456:36
Feb11.96:496:43
Mar12.06:426:41
Apr12.16:306:34
May12.16:246:32
Jun12.26:276:37
Jul12.26:336:42
Aug12.16:336:39
Sep12.06:256:26
Oct11.96:196:15
Nov11.96:216:13
Dec11.86:336:23

Sunny days

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

Mukah 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 5.3 months, from around Mar 9 to Aug 15. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is December, down near 0 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the June peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 254 daysDec 250 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
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.

Mukah 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
Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8118
Feb8317
Mar6337
Apr2971
May1288
Jun2773
Jul4753
Aug4654
Sep5248
Oct6238
Nov6832
Dec7525

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

The windier part of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around Nov 23 to Mar 21. The windiest month is February, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 22 to Oct 17, with May the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 2 · 14 km/hMay 22 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar11calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Mukah

In seasonPeak

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

Mukah 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 Mukah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Mukah 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 Mukah it holds close to 4.2 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
Jan3.6fair
Feb4.0fair
Mar4.1fair
Apr3.7fair
May3.8fair
Jun4.0fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov3.3poor
Dec3.4poor

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 Mukah for hot-weather activities is from late February to late September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 29 · 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 Mukah, 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.

Mukah packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°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, Mukah sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Mukah

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore 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
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Mukah 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 Mukah peaks around February 22 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 22UV 15Jul 14UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May14Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Mukah

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
Jun86
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Mukah 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 Mukah is worst in September — around 21 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.8× the cleanest month (November, 8 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1321 µg/m³Nov 238 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb10Good
Mar10Good
Apr10Good
May10Good
Jun11Good
Jul12Good
Aug17Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct12Moderate
Nov8Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mukah 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. Mukah banks about 6,156 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)
Jan501
Feb454
Mar514
Apr512
May542
Jun524
Jul540
Aug537
Sep511
Oct518
Nov495
Dec508

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.

Mukah receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.3 and 5.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 235.5 kWhDec 244.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Mukah?

Mukah sits at 2.9°N, 112.1°E, 6 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Dalat, 25 km away.

Topography around Mukah

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mukah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 23 m around an average of 6 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 29 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 598 m.

The land around Mukah is covered by trees (60%) within 3 km, trees (52%) and water (43%) within 16 km, and trees (63%) and water (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
23 m
16 km
29 m
80 km
598 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Dalat 25 km · Selangau 49 km · Sibu 73 km · Sibu Jaya 74 km · Tatau 84 km · Daro 85 km · Kanowit 89 km · Julau 100 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 Mukah (2.8944°, 112.0914°, 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).