Pasir Puteh climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Pasir Puteh?

Pasir Puteh has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 25.8 °C and it receives 2,616 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Pasir Puteh?

The hottest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 20 May 1998, reaching 34.0 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Pasir Puteh?

The coldest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 4 January 1972, at 18.4 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Pasir Puteh?

Almost never: Pasir Puteh sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Pasir Puteh warmed?

Yes: Pasir Puteh warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Pasir Puteh?

The wettest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 25 November 2025, with 261 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Pasir Puteh?

The windiest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 22 December 2005, with winds reaching 34.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Pasir Puteh?

The warmest month in Pasir Puteh is May (27.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (24.5 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Pasir Puteh?

Pasir Puteh receives on average 2,616 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 278 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Pasir Puteh?

Pasir Puteh gets on average 10.4 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,796 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Pasir Puteh (Malaysia) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 25.8 °C and it receives 2,616 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is May (27.0 °C on average) and the coldest is January (24.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.

Pasir Puteh averages 0 frost days, 110 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 278 rainy days per year.

Pasir Puteh has warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.19 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.0 °C (on 20 May 1998) and the coldest 18.4 °C (on 4 January 1972).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Pasir PutehKelantan

coords: 5.83°, 102.40°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthMayColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthDecemberDriest monthApril

Mean daily temperature

25.8°C

Average daily high

28.9°C

Average daily low

23.7°C

Annual rainfall

2,616mm

Sunshine / day

10.4h

Mean relative humidity

85%

Average peak wind

11.8km/h

Seasonal range

2.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

110 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

278 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

34.9 °C

Average feels-like low

28.1 °C

Average peak gust

27.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

364 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.5 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.6 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.82 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

34.0 °C

20 May 1998

Coldest day

18.4 °C

4 January 1972

Wettest day

261 mm

25 November 2025

Windiest day

34.3 km/h

22 December 2005

Strongest gust

69.1 km/h

22 December 2005

Hottest feels-like

41.5 °C

1 May 2024

Coldest feels-like

20.0 °C

4 January 1972

Sunniest day

12.1 h

22 June 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	32.3 °C22 May 2025	21.1 °C2 February 2025	26.6 °C	3,216 mm	163
2024	33.7 °C3 May 2024	23.0 °C13 March 2024	27.2 °C	3,124 mm	217
2023	33.1 °C20 May 2023	21.6 °C15 March 2023	26.8 °C	4,117 mm	205
2022	32.5 °C31 May 2022	22.0 °C11 January 2022	26.5 °C	3,573 mm	177
2021	32.5 °C31 May 2021	21.5 °C23 February 2021	26.5 °C	3,193 mm	180
2020	32.9 °C20 May 2020	21.9 °C25 January 2020	26.7 °C	2,638 mm	185
2019	33.4 °C8 May 2019	21.2 °C4 March 2019	26.8 °C	2,276 mm	197
2018	32.5 °C17 August 2018	20.3 °C11 February 2018	26.5 °C	2,282 mm	153
2017	32.3 °C2 May 2017	22.8 °C29 January 2017	26.6 °C	3,382 mm	187
2016	33.8 °C4 May 2016	22.0 °C22 February 2016	27.0 °C	2,320 mm	203
2015	33.0 °C9 May 2015	20.7 °C27 January 2015	26.6 °C	1,919 mm	183
2014	32.4 °C15 May 2014	19.7 °C4 February 2014	26.3 °C	2,927 mm	169
2013	33.3 °C6 April 2013	22.1 °C26 January 2013	26.4 °C	2,749 mm	152
2012	32.2 °C26 April 2012	22.2 °C27 January 2012	26.3 °C	2,569 mm	153
2011	32.7 °C9 May 2011	20.6 °C20 January 2011	26.1 °C	3,179 mm	141
2010	33.7 °C14 May 2010	21.8 °C1 February 2010	26.7 °C	2,431 mm	190
2009	32.5 °C20 April 2009	20.6 °C3 February 2009	26.3 °C	2,760 mm	163
2008	31.4 °C18 April 2008	21.3 °C12 February 2008	26.0 °C	3,171 mm	133
2007	32.5 °C10 August 2007	20.6 °C31 January 2007	26.2 °C	3,180 mm	150
2006	31.7 °C29 April 2006	21.8 °C13 March 2006	26.2 °C	2,844 mm	138
2005	32.2 °C27 April 2005	19.6 °C26 January 2005	26.3 °C	3,012 mm	176
2004	33.3 °C19 April 2004	21.3 °C22 February 2004	26.1 °C	2,112 mm	127
2003	32.4 °C27 May 2003	21.1 °C27 January 2003	26.3 °C	2,142 mm	150
2002	32.1 °C17 May 2002	19.7 °C9 February 2002	26.3 °C	1,878 mm	153
2001	31.9 °C21 June 2001	21.8 °C27 February 2001	26.2 °C	2,732 mm	145
2000	31.9 °C16 May 2000	21.4 °C5 February 2000	26.0 °C	2,804 mm	111
1999	31.8 °C28 April 1999	21.3 °C29 December 1999	26.0 °C	3,104 mm	116
1998	34.0 °C20 May 1998	22.3 °C9 December 1998	26.8 °C	2,492 mm	197
1997	32.3 °C28 May 1997	20.5 °C3 January 1997	26.1 °C	2,141 mm	130
1996	31.8 °C29 July 1996	19.5 °C18 January 1996	25.8 °C	3,089 mm	117
1995	32.0 °C6 June 1995	21.2 °C10 March 1995	26.0 °C	3,080 mm	124
1994	31.4 °C5 May 1994	20.1 °C18 January 1994	25.8 °C	2,699 mm	110
1993	31.6 °C10 June 1993	19.6 °C22 February 1993	25.8 °C	2,840 mm	110
1992	32.8 °C8 May 1992	21.7 °C15 March 1992	25.9 °C	2,356 mm	123
1991	31.5 °C9 June 1991	20.0 °C11 March 1991	25.9 °C	2,757 mm	102
1990	31.9 °C3 June 1990	20.5 °C5 March 1990	26.0 °C	2,367 mm	124
1989	32.5 °C22 April 1989	19.3 °C15 February 1989	25.8 °C	2,480 mm	107
1988	31.8 °C27 May 1988	21.1 °C13 February 1988	26.0 °C	3,362 mm	121
1987	32.1 °C14 June 1987	20.5 °C4 January 1987	26.1 °C	2,802 mm	156
1986	33.8 °C11 May 1986	21.2 °C22 January 1986	25.8 °C	2,752 mm	118
1985	31.9 °C12 April 1985	19.6 °C17 January 1985	25.7 °C	2,686 mm	90
1984	31.9 °C21 June 1984	20.3 °C7 March 1984	25.5 °C	3,075 mm	93
1983	32.6 °C29 September 1983	20.8 °C6 February 1983	26.1 °C	2,743 mm	157
1982	31.7 °C1 June 1982	20.3 °C19 January 1982	25.8 °C	2,100 mm	96
1981	32.6 °C19 August 1981	20.0 °C27 January 1981	25.9 °C	2,124 mm	141
1980	32.5 °C21 May 1980	20.4 °C25 January 1980	25.9 °C	2,587 mm	128
1979	32.0 °C5 May 1979	20.1 °C17 January 1979	25.8 °C	2,621 mm	132
1978	31.8 °C23 April 1978	20.2 °C31 January 1978	25.8 °C	2,230 mm	110
1977	31.8 °C26 May 1977	20.4 °C23 January 1977	25.5 °C	2,046 mm	85
1976	31.7 °C26 June 1976	18.7 °C22 January 1976	25.4 °C	2,429 mm	63
1975	31.1 °C15 August 1975	19.6 °C27 January 1975	25.4 °C	3,021 mm	52
1974	31.7 °C16 August 1974	19.4 °C22 January 1974	25.3 °C	2,256 mm	59
1973	32.1 °C16 June 1973	19.6 °C2 March 1973	25.7 °C	2,820 mm	107
1972	32.4 °C13 July 1972	18.4 °C4 January 1972	25.6 °C	2,435 mm	93
1971	31.9 °C26 April 1971	19.8 °C29 January 1971	25.3 °C	2,856 mm	72
1970	31.6 °C30 April 1970	20.3 °C24 January 1970	25.7 °C	2,307 mm	73
1969	32.1 °C28 April 1969	19.7 °C4 February 1969	25.9 °C	2,420 mm	126
1968	31.5 °C4 June 1968	19.8 °C27 February 1968	25.5 °C	1,791 mm	96
1967	32.3 °C6 June 1967	19.2 °C8 February 1967	25.4 °C	2,882 mm	91
1966	31.4 °C14 April 1966	21.0 °C25 February 1966	25.5 °C	3,143 mm	76
1965	31.8 °C28 May 1965	18.8 °C8 January 1965	25.3 °C	2,514 mm	62
1964	32.6 °C3 July 1964	20.5 °C30 January 1964	25.6 °C	2,150 mm	96
1963	32.2 °C16 May 1963	20.0 °C15 January 1963	25.4 °C	2,061 mm	102
1962	32.3 °C25 May 1962	19.7 °C7 February 1962	25.5 °C	2,438 mm	91
1961	31.8 °C26 May 1961	20.5 °C25 January 1961	25.5 °C	2,320 mm	92
1960	32.4 °C1 June 1960	19.0 °C18 March 1960	25.6 °C	2,158 mm	118
1959	31.5 °C22 June 1959	20.8 °C10 December 1959	25.5 °C	2,413 mm	44
1958	33.0 °C22 April 1958	19.3 °C27 February 1958	25.8 °C	2,221 mm	125
1957	31.7 °C22 April 1957	19.3 °C5 January 1957	25.5 °C	2,212 mm	85
1956	31.0 °C4 June 1956	19.1 °C23 January 1956	25.2 °C	2,990 mm	32
1955	31.5 °C30 May 1955	19.6 °C13 February 1955	25.3 °C	3,251 mm	57
1954	31.6 °C5 August 1954	20.2 °C23 November 1954	25.3 °C	2,960 mm	41
1953	31.4 °C3 July 1953	20.9 °C9 January 1953	25.6 °C	2,773 mm	75
1952	31.4 °C11 June 1952	20.0 °C24 January 1952	25.7 °C	2,541 mm	71
1951	31.6 °C17 June 1951	20.2 °C29 January 1951	25.6 °C	1,612 mm	72
1950	31.1 °C8 June 1950	19.4 °C9 March 1950	25.4 °C	2,268 mm	44
1949	31.9 °C7 June 1949	19.5 °C24 January 1949	25.7 °C	574 mm	106
1948	30.3 °C2 June 1948	19.4 °C1 March 1948	25.1 °C	2,219 mm	10
1947	30.5 °C11 June 1947	21.3 °C3 February 1947	25.1 °C	3,204 mm	4
1946	31.2 °C6 June 1946	19.8 °C27 January 1946	25.1 °C	3,025 mm	19
1945	30.6 °C7 June 1945	20.5 °C29 December 1945	24.8 °C	3,672 mm	5
1944	31.0 °C3 May 1944	19.2 °C15 February 1944	25.1 °C	2,430 mm	47
1943	31.0 °C27 May 1943	18.7 °C20 March 1943	24.8 °C	2,145 mm	27
1942	30.5 °C17 April 1942	19.8 °C31 December 1942	25.0 °C	2,566 mm	11
1941	30.4 °C28 April 1941	20.5 °C15 January 1941	25.1 °C	2,716 mm	10
1940	30.7 °C6 July 1940	19.1 °C8 February 1940	25.1 °C	2,137 mm	17

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

29.5 °C

+0.6 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

163 d/yr

+53

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

3216 mm

+600 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	27.4 °C	+0.5 °C	288 mm	+66 mm
Feb	28.2 °C	+0.5 °C	143 mm	+24 mm
Mar	28.9 °C	0.0 °C	119 mm	+8 mm
Apr	30.0 °C	-0.1 °C	211 mm	+101 mm
May	31.0 °C	+0.6 °C	207 mm	+37 mm
Jun	30.6 °C	+0.4 °C	155 mm	+1 mm
Jul	30.6 °C	+0.7 °C	115 mm	-53 mm
Aug	30.5 °C	+0.7 °C	205 mm	+1 mm
Sep	30.2 °C	+0.7 °C	165 mm	-80 mm
Oct	29.9 °C	+1.0 °C	195 mm	-100 mm
Nov	28.4 °C	+0.7 °C	1106 mm	+721 mm
Dec	28.1 °C	+1.2 °C	308 mm	-125 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

32.3 °C

22 May 2025

Coldest day

21.1 °C

2 Feb 2025

Wettest day

260.6 mm

25 Nov 2025

Windiest day

24.5 km/h

12 Jan 2025

Strongest gust

53.3 km/h

19 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

40.3 °C

2 Jun 2025

Coldest feels-like

24.0 °C

31 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

25 Apr 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Pasir Puteh?

Pasir Puteh has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 25.8 °C and it receives 2,616 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Pasir Puteh?

The hottest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 20 May 1998, reaching 34.0 °C.

What is the coldest day in Pasir Puteh?

The coldest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 4 January 1972, at 18.4 °C.

Does it snow in Pasir Puteh?

Almost never: Pasir Puteh sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Pasir Puteh warmed?

Yes: Pasir Puteh warmed by +1.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Pasir Puteh?

The wettest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 25 November 2025, with 261 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Pasir Puteh?

The windiest day measured in Pasir Puteh between 1940 and 2025 was 22 December 2005, with winds reaching 34.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Pasir Puteh?

The warmest month in Pasir Puteh is May (27.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (24.5 °C).

How much does it rain in Pasir Puteh?

Pasir Puteh receives on average 2,616 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 278 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Pasir Puteh?

Pasir Puteh gets on average 10.4 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,796 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Pasir Puteh?

Yes: Pasir Puteh has on average 364 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Pasir Puteh?

In Pasir Puteh, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 41.5 °C on 1 May 2024, and the lowest was 20.0 °C on 4 January 1972.

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