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Has the climate in Muar changed?

Muar has warmed about 2.8°F between 1973 and 2024.

About 0.5°F per decade, measured from Muar's official daily weather records, 1973–2024. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Muar'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
79.9°F
Recent
81.8°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
67 more days
1970s
33 / yr
Recent
100 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
74 more days
1970s
90 / yr
Recent
164 / yr
Wetter on average

Muar's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1973 to 2024.

77°79°81°83°85°1973: 79.9°F1974: 79.4°F1975: 78.8°F1976: 79.3°F1977: 80.1°F1978: 79.9°F1979: 80.1°F1980: 79.9°F1981: 79.9°F1982: 79.9°F1983: 80.9°F1984: 79.5°F1985: 80.0°F1986: 80.0°F1987: 80.8°F1988: 80.4°F1989: 79.8°F1990: 80.7°F1991: 80.8°F1992: 80.5°F1993: 80.5°F1994: 80.4°F1995: 80.5°F1996: 80.7°F1997: 81.3°F1998: 82.5°F1999: 80.8°F2000: 80.9°F2001: 81.0°F2002: 81.8°F2003: 81.5°F2004: 81.7°F2005: 82.0°F2006: 81.3°F2007: 81.2°F2008: 81.3°F2009: 81.7°F2010: 81.9°F2011: 81.1°F2012: 81.3°F2013: 81.8°F2014: 81.9°F2015: 82.2°F2016: 83.1°F2017: 81.6°F2018: 81.4°F2019: 82.5°F2020: 82.2°F2021: 81.3°F2022: 81.3°F2023: 81.8°F2024: 82.7°Flong-term trend1973198019902000201020202024
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 73 more 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.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°January: +0.7°F+0.7JFebruary: -0.1°F-0.1FMarch: -0.2°F-0.2MApril: +0.9°F+0.9AMay: +0.5°F+0.5MJune: +0.8°F+0.8JJuly: +1.0°F+1.0JAugust: +0.9°F+0.9ASeptember: +0.7°F+0.7SOctober: +0.7°F+0.7ONovember: +1.1°F+1.1NDecember: +0.4°F+0.4D

November has warmed the most — about 1.2°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Malacca, a weather station, about 43 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →