Kuala Lumpur
It is 86.0°F at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt, 20:00 local on Monday. Kuala Lumpur is the 10th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 46th hottest capital right now.
20:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for this date here is a high of 89.6°F.
Monday, 22 January 1979
Source: GHCN-Daily
Tuesday, 10 August 1976
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 94.3°F, set in 2011. Today reached 93.2°F.
The whole record bookUlan Bator, at 32.0°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Ulan BatorWhere Kuala Lumpur stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #10
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #46
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- May
- 92.3°F
- Widest annual swing
- #132
- of 139
Kuala Lumpur by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan90.5°FHigh 102.2°F · 22 Jan 1979Low 66.0°F · 15 Jan 1963
- Feb91.4°FHigh 97.2°F · 24 Feb 1998Low 66.0°F · 4 Feb 1963
- Mar92.1°FHigh 97.9°F · 31 Mar 2016Low 66.0°F · 1 Mar 1963
- Apr92.1°FHigh 99.0°F · 10 Apr 1998Low 69.1°F · 14 Apr 2011
- May · warmest92.3°FHigh 101.3°F · 22 May 1997Low 68.7°F · 23 May 2009
- Jun91.8°FHigh 97.9°F · 5 Jun 2012Low 69.8°F · 23 Jun 1978
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
4 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Kuala Lumpur by annual mean.
- Banjul 91.8°F
- Kuwait City 91.6°F
- Muscat 91.4°F
- Bangkok 90.9°F
- Port of Spain 90.9°F
- Yamoussoukro 90.7°F
How Kuala Lumpur’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Kuala Lumpur?
The archive held here for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia starts in 1949, which is 76 years of record, across 21,030 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Kuala Lumpur's temperature?
Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt (WMSA), 19 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Kuala Lumpur?
102.2°F, on 22 January 1979, in the record held for Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Kuala Lumpur?
64.4°F, on 10 August 1976, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.