Climate Kuantan Airport 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Kuantan Airport (WMKD) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	86.3	85	89	91	75	98
February	93.3	98	90	82	99	93
March	95.8	97	95	97	87	100
April	95.4		94	95	95	99
May	95.9		98	93	96	97
June	96.2		99	98	97	98
July	88.9		95	94	53	95
August	92.1		96	98	93	97
September	88.7		97	97	98	98
October	90.6		84	88	95	96
November	88.0		92	90	94	88
December	82.1		81	79	80	85
Average	91.4	93.2	92.6	92.3	88.1	95.3

19th best VFR conditions of Malaysia

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	93.5	96	99	93	90	99
February	96.4	100	94	88	100	97
March	97.1	99	96	98	90	100
April	97.9		98	97	98	99
May	98.1		99	97	98	98
June	98.6		99	99	99	99
July	91.6		98	98	54	97
August	96.6		98	99	97	98
September	92.1		98	99	99	99
October	96.1		96	94	98	99
November	94.9		97	95	98	97
December	90.9		93	94	87	94
Average	95.6	98.2	97.0	95.8	92.0	98.1

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	29.7	30	29	31	28	31
February	30.5	32	30	29	31	31
March	31.9	33	31	32	31	33
April	32.7		34	32	33	32
May	33.2		34	33	33	33
June	32.7		34	33	33	33
July	32.6		33	33	33	32
August	32.6		33	33	32	33
September	32.5		33	32	32	33
October	32.3		33	31	33	33
November	31.0		31	31	31	31
December	29.7		29	29	30	30
Average	31.7	31.2	31.9	31.6	31.6	32.0

8th highest temperature of Malaysia

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	23.3	24	23	23	23	24
February	23.2	24	23	23	23	24
March	23.8	25	24	24	24	24
April	24.1		25	24	24	23
May	24.8		25	25	25	25
June	24.3		25	24	24	25
July	24.3		25	25	25	24
August	24.2		25	24	24	25
September	24.1		25	24	24	24
October	24.0		25	23	24	25
November	23.9		25	23	24	24
December	23.6		24	24	24	24
Average	24.0	24.2	24.4	23.8	23.9	24.0

4th lowest temperature of Malaysia

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	27.8	37	36	14	43	13
February	16.8	13	25	30	6	19
March	7.1	7	16	9	5	4
April	5.6		2	7	3	12
May	4.1		2	3	5	9
June	3.5		0	5	2	7
July	2.8		3	4	0	8
August	4.3		2	5	10	4
September	5.5		3	6	8	6
October	8.8		4	14	5	4
November	18.1		19	16	18	23
December	30.1		40	36	25	22
Average	11.9	18.7	12.5	11.4	10.8	10.7

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	4.9	5	5	5	5	5
February	5.2	6	5	4	6	6
March	4.7	5	5	4	5	5
April	3.6		4	3	3	4
May	3.3		4	2	3	2
June	3.5		4	2	3	3
July	3.8		5	2	3	3
August	3.8		5	2	3	3
September	3.6		4	2	3	3
October	3.1		4	2	3	3
November	3.3		4	3	3	3
December	4.3		5	3	5	4
Average	4.1	5.3	4.5	2.8	3.5	3.7

8th highest wind speed of Malaysia

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	012°	011°	012°	004°	019°
February	027°	017°	002°	020°	018°
March	047°	040°	027°	019°	037°
April		088°	007°	015°	028°
May		179°	026°	022°	043°
June		177°	011°	256°	229°
July		198°	078°	221°	168°
August		180°	085°	025°	142°
September		174°	347°	292°	197°
October		143°	354°	339°	229°
November		006°	008°	344°	004°
December		357°	358°	358°	357°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.