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Best time to visit Malacca

Month-by-month weather averages for Malacca.

Malacca, Melaka, Malaysia

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  • Average daily high and low
  • Precipitation
  • Good month
  • Best month
  • Made good or best by an event
Average daily high and low temperature, average precipitation and each month's verdict
MonthAverage daily highAverage daily lowPrecipitationVerdict
January29.4 °C / 85 °F24.8 °C / 77 °F124 mm / 4.9 inneither best nor good
February30.3 °C / 87 °F25 °C / 77 °F80 mm / 3.1 inneither best nor good
March30.4 °C / 87 °F25.5 °C / 78 °F149 mm / 5.9 inneither best nor good
April30.2 °C / 86 °F25.8 °C / 78 °F224 mm / 8.8 inneither best nor good
May30.2 °C / 86 °F26.1 °C / 79 °F223 mm / 8.8 inneither best nor good
June30 °C / 86 °F26 °C / 79 °F184 mm / 7.2 inneither best nor good
July29.6 °C / 85 °F25.8 °C / 78 °F165 mm / 6.5 inneither best nor good
August29.4 °C / 85 °F25.5 °C / 78 °F198 mm / 7.8 inneither best nor good
September29.4 °C / 85 °F25.5 °C / 78 °F188 mm / 7.4 inneither best nor good
October29.5 °C / 85 °F25.5 °C / 78 °F219 mm / 8.6 inneither best nor good
November29.3 °C / 85 °F25.3 °C / 78 °F287 mm / 11.3 inneither best nor good
December29.2 °C / 85 °F25.1 °C / 77 °F235 mm / 9.3 inneither best nor good
Good and best months depend on more than temperature, rain and events. How they are chosen

Each activity on this page has its own good and best months, rated on twenty years of daily weather records. Which measures count, and how much, depends on the activity: humidity for exploring outdoors, wind for the beach, hiking and skiing, snow for skiing alone. Between them, the activities are rated on:

  • Daytime highs
  • Night-time lows
  • How warm it feels
  • Humidity
  • How much of the day is sunny
  • Hours of daylight
  • Monthly rainfall
  • How many days it rains
  • Days of heavy rain
  • Wind
  • Snowfall and days with snow
  • Major events, such as festivals

The chart shows the good and best months for exploring outdoors.

The event icon marks a month that an event lifts to good or best, such as a festival or a natural spectacle. Choose “Weather only” in the toolbar to rate the months on weather alone.

Best months by activity

Exploring outdoors

Mild days and nights, mostly dry and bright. The default for 'when should I go'.

  1. JJanuary: neither
  2. FFebruary: neither
  3. MMarch: neither
  4. AApril: neither
  5. MMay: neither
  6. JJune: neither
  7. JJuly: neither
  8. AAugust: neither
  9. SSeptember: neither
  10. OOctober: neither
  11. NNovember: neither
  12. DDecember: neither

No month is good for this in Malacca.

Malacca is hot, humid and rain-prone in every month, so no month offers comfortable conditions for a day of outdoor sightseeing; February is relatively the driest and least oppressive, but heat, humidity and rain never really let up.

An activity is listed only where it applies: skiing at ski destinations, beach and swimming at beach destinations. The nearest ski area is Jade Dragon Mountain, 2778 km away.

Weather averages

Monthly averages over twenty years, 2006–2025. Highs, lows and precipitation are in the chart at the top.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels like (high) 34.2 °C35.6 °C36.7 °C37 °C36.6 °C35.8 °C35.2 °C35 °C35.3 °C35.6 °C35.1 °C34.3 °C
Days with heavy rain 3.7 days2.1 days4.2 days7.6 days8 days6.2 days5.6 days6.5 days6.4 days8.1 days11.4 days5.9 days
Time rain usually falls 5 pm5 pm5 pm5 pm5 am6 am5 am4 am4 am4 am5 pm5 pm
Sunshine per day 9.2 h10.2 h10 h10.1 h9.9 h9.8 h9.9 h10 h9.8 h9.7 h8.5 h8.5 h
Relative humidity 79%77%79%81%82%81%81%82%81%82%83%82%

Air quality

Averaged over a shorter period (2022–2025) than the twenty-year averages above, and not counted towards good or best months.

  JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Air pollution (PM2.5) 2022–20259.1 µg/m³11.1 µg/m³13.9 µg/m³14.1 µg/m³12.3 µg/m³14.3 µg/m³14.7 µg/m³12.5 µg/m³13.7 µg/m³13.4 µg/m³8.8 µg/m³8.6 µg/m³
Air pollution (PM2.5, daily peak) 2022–202513.4 µg/m³16.5 µg/m³22 µg/m³21.5 µg/m³18.4 µg/m³20.9 µg/m³20.8 µg/m³18.7 µg/m³20 µg/m³19.8 µg/m³13.5 µg/m³12.5 µg/m³
  • Good 15 µg/m³ or less
  • Fair 15 to 25 µg/m³
  • Moderate 25 to 37.5 µg/m³
  • Poor 37.5 to 50 µg/m³
  • Very poor 50 to 75 µg/m³
  • Extremely poor over 75 µg/m³

Each figure is compared with the World Health Organization's guideline for a day's air, 15 µg/m³ or less, and with its interim targets above that. The words are ours: the WHO does not name its steps. The figures are modelled monthly averages, so single days can be well above them. The daily peak is the average of each day's highest hour, shaded on the same scale.

Events and seasons

What the weather records cannot show. A major event can lift a month to good or best. The warnings are there to help you plan, and never count against a month.

Reasons to go

  • Malacca Kite Festival

    January, dates vary from year to year

  • Thai Pongal

    13–15 January

  • Chinese New Year celebrations

    January and February, dates vary from year to year

  • Thaipusam

    January and February, dates vary from year to year

  • Ramadan bazaars

    January, February and March, dates vary from year to year

  • Nuzul Quran

    January, February and March, dates vary from year to year

  • Hari Raya Puasa (Eid al-Fitr) celebrations

    February and March, dates vary from year to year

  • Malacca's Tourism Week

    8–14 March

  • Holy Week

    March and April, dates vary from year to year

  • Hien Tian Siong Teh's birthday

    March and April, dates vary from year to year

  • Tomb Sweeping Festival

    April, dates vary from year to year

  • Gendang Nusantara

    11–20 April

  • Vesak

    May and June, dates vary from year to year

  • Sikh Commemoration of Sant Baba Sohan Singh Ji

    25–31 May

  • Awal Muharram

    May and June, dates vary from year to year

  • Feast of St. John the Baptist

    23 June

  • Fiesta de San Pedro

    28–29 June

  • Geok Hu Tai Chong's birthday

    June and July, dates vary from year to year

  • Malacca Carnival

    August

  • Theemithi

    August, dates vary from year to year

  • Governor's Birthday parade

    11–20 August

  • National Day and Malaka Sea Carnival

    31 August

  • Malaysia Fest

    September

  • Feast of Santa Cruz

    September

  • Melaka Festival

    September

  • Mid-Autumn Festival

    September and October, dates vary from year to year

  • Deepavali

    October and November, dates vary from year to year

  • Feast of St Francis Xavier

    1–6 December, dates vary from year to year

  • Christmas Day

    25 December

Worth knowing before you go

  • Chinese New Year closures

    January and February, dates vary from year to year

  • Ramadan restaurant closures

    January, February and March, dates vary from year to year

  • Hari Raya Puasa travel rush and closures

    February and March, dates vary from year to year

Other places in Malaysia

Compare places month by month on the travel calendar

Monthly averages over 2006–2025, unless stated otherwise.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC-BY 4.0), generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5). City data from GeoNames (CC-BY 4.0). Air quality from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and sea temperature from Météo-France / Copernicus Marine, both via Open-Meteo.com. Coastline from Natural Earth. Ski areas from OpenSkiMap.org, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Skimap.org. World Heritage sites from Wikidata (CC0), from the World Heritage List © UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Readership from Wikimedia pageview data (CC0). Destination classification derived from English Wikivoyage, © Wikivoyage contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).