It is 78.8°F at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt, 11:00 local on Friday. Kuala Lumpur is the 19th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 50th hottest of the 184 capitals reporting right now.
Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt · WMSA3.1°N 101.6°E · 19 m27 readings in 24 h · METARRecords since 1949📍 Open in Google Maps
Latest reading
78.8°F
26.0°C · 11:00 local
27 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Today so far
78.8°F / 75.2°F
26.0°C / 24.0°C
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 90.5°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
All-time record high
102.2°F
39.0°C · recorded in °C
22 January 1979. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1949 to 2025
All-time record low
64.4°F
18.0°C · recorded in °C
10 August 1976. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
1Kuala Lumpur is the 19th warmest of 230 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2May is the hottest month here, averaging 92.3°F, which is before midsummer rather than in it. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 102.2°F, on 22 January 1979, and it has stood for 46 years. Source: GHCN-Daily
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1949 at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt, and the archive holds 21,030 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 27 readings a day, via METAR reports from the aerodrome.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 19 m above sea level, the 13th highest of 45 stations we hold in Malaysia.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Kuala Lumpur by annual mean.
May is the warmest month at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt, averaging a daily high of 92.3°F. That is an average of every May day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Kuala Lumpur?+−
December is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 89.4°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 34.9°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
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.
2.9°F between May and December, the 221st widest swing among the 230 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 25 Mays, 1961 to 2022, this station's May average has risen about 0.4° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 31 OctoberRecord for the date: 93.9°F, in 2024. Today reached 78.8°F, 15.1°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 18th of 8,954 reporting stations, across the 50 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
5It has reached the world's hottest 100 stations on 32 of those 50 days. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
66 of the last 7 days here passed 30°C. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
1December is the coolest month, averaging 89.4°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 2.9°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 221st widest of 230 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 19.8°F, on 7 November 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within Malaysia its best placing is 1st of 45 stations, over the 50 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 50 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Kuala Lumpur right now?+−
78.8°F at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt, measured at 11:00 local on Friday, 13 November 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
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, and 21,030 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
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.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from METAR reports from the aerodrome and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Kuala Lumpur's record?+−
The record runs from 1949 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 16 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 29. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Kuala Lumpur getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 25 Mays between 1961 and 2022, the average May high at Kuala Lumpur/Shah Arpt has risen about 0.4°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Kuala Lumpur compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 19th warmest of the 230 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 221st by the width of its annual swing. Kuwait City, Muscat, Bangui sit closest to it on that ranking.
Why is Kuala Lumpur hotter in May than in July?+−
May averages a high of 92.3°F here and July 90.7°F, so the hottest part of the year arrives 2 months before midsummer and the afternoons are 1.6°F cooler by the time the sun is highest. The month cards above show the rise and the fall. These are temperature readings, so they show that shape rather than what causes it: nothing on this page measures cloud, rain or wind.
Commentary: The AC has been switched on for the season and will not be switched off.