Malacca (Melaka) weather by month
The best time to visit Malacca (Melaka) is January, February and July — 70/100 in February, 32°C and 12 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, January to March (66/100 on average).
The worst month is November at 49/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See November →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Best season: January to March (66/100 on average) · worst November (49/100)
- Days
- 32°C
- Nights
- 24°C
- Wet days
- 12
- Sun
- 10.1 h
- Humidity
- 77%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Malacca, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Malacca is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Malacca through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Malacca in February
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Peak crowdsWeekend day-tripper crush, Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year closure in Malaysia(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Malacca
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Visas & entry
A guide to Malacca describes the UNESCO-listed historic center as genuinely walkable, with most major attractions close enough together that slow, on-foot exploration is part of the actual experience rather than a limitation. Their timing advice: start early in the morning or wait until after 5pm to explore, since the midday heat in this stretch of Malaysia gets intense enough to make walking between sights genuinely uncomfortable during peak sun hours.
Traveller notes on Malacca
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
January puts Malacca on the right coast at the right time, and the forum's framing is comparative: the west coast, KL and Melaka included, gets a dry, breezy stretch from mid-December through January, while the east coast of the peninsula is in the north-east monsoon and best avoided — much more rain, rough seas. That said, regulars are firm that there is no such thing as "no rain" in a tropical country: the record still shows fourteen wet days here, arriving as an hour or three of rain and then sun again. Near 29°C by day, 25 overnight, sea at 29.
Forum posters describe July as falling within the southwest monsoon, running roughly May through September, which affects Malaysia's west coast including Malacca - posters are consistent that this means a higher chance of rain on any given day rather than a guarantee of rain all day. Posters describe a typical July day as hot, humid and sunny, or hot, humid with some rain mixed in, with real luck-of-the-draw variability from one day to the next. Posters consistently warn that longer-range weather forecasts for this part of Malaysia aren't reliable, recommending flexible, lightweight clothing and an umbrella on hand regardless of what any forecast predicts. Posters generally rate July as a warm, humid, moderately unpredictable month to visit Malacca, manageable with the right mindset about rain.
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