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Has the climate in Kuala Terengganu changed?

Kuala Terengganu has warmed about 2.7°F between 1971 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Kuala Terengganu's official daily weather records, 1971–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Kuala Terengganu's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Malaysia — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.9°F
1970s
79.0°F
Recent
80.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
66 fewer days
1970s
182 / yr
Recent
116 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
32 more days
1970s
147 / yr
Recent
179 / yr
Wetter on average

Kuala Terengganu's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2024.

76°78°80°82°1971: 79.5°F1972: 80.4°F1973: 79.1°F1974: 78.4°F1975: 77.8°F1976: 78.2°F1977: 78.7°F1978: 78.8°F1979: 78.9°F1980: 79.1°F1981: 79.1°F1982: 79.0°F1983: 79.7°F1984: 78.3°F1985: 78.7°F1986: 79.0°F1987: 79.5°F1988: 79.2°F1989: 79.1°F1990: 79.8°F1991: 79.9°F1992: 79.7°F1993: 79.6°F1994: 79.6°F1995: 79.8°F1996: 79.7°F1997: 80.6°F1998: 81.6°F1999: 79.6°F2000: 80.0°F2001: 80.0°F2002: 80.9°F2003: 80.5°F2004: 79.7°F2005: 80.3°F2006: 80.4°F2007: 80.4°F2008: 80.3°F2009: 80.5°F2010: 81.3°F2011: 80.1°F2012: 80.0°F2013: 80.7°F2014: 80.9°F2015: 81.2°F2016: 81.7°F2017: 80.7°F2018: 80.8°F2019: 81.2°F2020: 81.3°F2021: 80.7°F2022: 80.6°F2023: 81.4°F2024: 81.5°Flong-term trend1971198019902000201020202024
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 27 fewer days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +1.3°F+1.3JFebruary: +0.9°F+0.9FMarch: +1.1°F+1.1MApril: +1.0°F+1.0AMay: +0.8°F+0.8MJune: +0.7°F+0.7JJuly: +1.0°F+1.0JAugust: +0.7°F+0.7ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +1.0°F+1.0NDecember: +1.2°F+1.2D

January has warmed the most — about 1.3°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 23 years of daily observations at Kuantan, a weather station, about 190 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →