The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days George Town has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 22 years of daily weather observations (2003–present), from the Butterworth station 9 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days George Town
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
102°FMar 16, 2003
The three most extreme on record
1102°FMar 16, 2003
299°FMar 10, 2010
399°FMar 18, 2010
❄️Coldest night
66°FFeb 3, 2014
The three most extreme on record
166°FFeb 3, 2014
266°FFeb 4, 2014
368°FFeb 11, 2018
🌧️Most rain in one day
15.15 inNov 5, 2017
The three most extreme on record
115.15 inNov 5, 2017
210.37 inJul 14, 2017
35.10 inSep 15, 2017
In plain terms
Across the record, George Town has reached as high as 102°F and as low as 66°F. A single day has delivered over 15 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Penang Intl, a weather station, about 14 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.