Climate and average weather in Tokai

In Tokai, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: late November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tokai typically varies from 24°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 38°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while October is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Tokai for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and late November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Oct
24°
Wettest
Oct
328 mm
Driest
Feb
67 mm
Rain / yr
2304 mm
256 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
6.0°N
Clearest
Feb
66% cloud

Tokai 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 late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tokai stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is October, with an average low of 24°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in February.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3324
Feb3424
Mar3425
Apr3325
May3225
Jun3225
Jul3125
Aug3124
Sep3124
Oct3124
Nov3124
Dec3124

How hot and cold Tokai 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, Tokai feels like about 41°C (around April 22). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 124 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)
Jan37332424
Feb38342424
Mar40342425
Apr41332525
May41322525
Jun40322525
Jul39312425
Aug38312424
Sep38312424
Oct37312424
Nov37312424
Dec35312424

Average hourly temperature in Tokai

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 February afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in October, near 24°C.

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

Tokai 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
Jan33° / 24°689.711.73.5
Feb34° / 24°671011.82.7
Mar34° / 25°15518.6122.3
Apr33° / 25°22025.412.12.3
May32° / 25°23726.612.32.4
Jun32° / 25°16921.712.32.8
Jul31° / 25°17422.312.33.0
Aug31° / 24°21123.912.22.8
Sep31° / 24°25426.3122.6
Oct31° / 24°32829.211.92.5
Nov31° / 24°26425.411.72.8
Dec31° / 24°16016.411.73.7

Chance of rain

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

Tokai gets about 2304 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 3.9 months, from around Aug 5 to Nov 30, peaking in October at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 29.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 328 mm over about 29 wet days; February is the driest, with 67 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 10 · 94%Jan 29 · 28%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb3610
Mar6019
Apr8425
May8627
Jun7422
Jul7122
Aug7824
Sep8826
Oct9429
Nov8425
Dec5316

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tokai collects about 2304 mm of rain across 256 wet days — roughly 192 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 328 mm, while February is the driest at just 67 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6867155220237169174211254328264160
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6810
Feb6710
Mar15519
Apr22025
May23727
Jun16922
Jul17422
Aug21124
Sep25426
Oct32829
Nov26425
Dec16016

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tokai, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around December 14 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around April 27. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 38% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 28 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around December 13. The cloudiest month is October, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 17 · 39%Oct 2 · 3%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3862
Mar3367
Apr2278
May1189
Jun1288
Jul1189
Aug1090
Sep595
Oct595
Nov1090
Dec1882

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, Tokai 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)
Jan11.77:377:18
Feb11.87:397:27
Mar12.07:297:27
Apr12.17:157:23
May12.37:067:23
Jun12.37:087:29
Jul12.37:147:34
Aug12.27:167:28
Sep12.07:127:14
Oct11.97:076:59
Nov11.77:126:55
Dec11.77:257:04

Sunny days

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

Tokai 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 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Dec 17 to Apr 23. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 0 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the March peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 66 daysOct 50 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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.

Tokai 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 97% 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 (%)
Jan3335311
Feb7335010
Mar2124937
Apr001288
May00199
Jun00694
Jul001684
Aug002377
Sep002674
Oct002476
Nov003961
Dec067024

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 Tokai is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around Nov 13 to Mar 10. The windiest month is December, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 11 to Nov 12, with April the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 28 · 9 km/hApr 24 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb7calm
Mar5calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Tokai

In seasonPeak

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

Tokai 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 Tokai

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early December, Tokai is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 time of year to visit Tokai for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 3.9

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
Jan3.4poor
Feb2.7poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.3poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct2.5poor
Nov2.8poor
Dec3.6fair

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 Tokai for hot-weather activities is from early December to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 10 · 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 Tokai, 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.

Tokai packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°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 February, Tokai sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 10 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tokai

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 31°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
Feb29Tropical
Mar30Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May31Tropical
Jun31Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep30Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec29Tropical

UV index (midday) in Tokai 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 Tokai peaks around February 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 18 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeFeb 19UV 14Jul 18UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Tokai

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)
Jan7.56
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr86
May85.5
Jun86
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Tokai 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 Tokai is worst in July — around 29 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJul 1129 µg/m³Feb 1120 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan21Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar24Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May26Moderate
Jun29Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tokai 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. Tokai banks about 6,611 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan568
Feb539
Mar596
Apr562
May573
Jun546
Jul553
Aug551
Sep527
Oct541
Nov521
Dec536

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.

Tokai receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 6.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Jan 12 to May 27. The brightest month is March, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is November, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 56.0 kWhNov 274.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Tokai?

Tokai sits at 6.0°N, 100.4°E, 7 m above sea level, in Malaysia. The nearest listed city is Kampung Alor Mengkudu, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Tokai

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tokai has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 8 m around an average of 3 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 174 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,730 m.

The land around Tokai is covered by cropland (84%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) within 16 km, and trees (52%) and water (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
8 m
16 km
174 m
80 km
1,730 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Kampung Alor Mengkudu 7.0 km · Pendang 9.0 km · Alor Setar 11 km · Kuala Kedah 14 km · Anak Bukit 18 km · Pokok Sena 20 km · Gurun 25 km · Yan Besar 26 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 Tokai (6.0287°, 100.4069°, elevation 7 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).