Weather in Kuantan in June
Malaysia · 20-year averages, June
A hard month. June is a hard month in Kuantan, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 22 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.
Kuantan barely has seasons. June scores 47 out of 100 against a best of 63 in February — a gap small enough that the month you choose matters far less here than the week you choose.
Rain on 22 of the month's 30 days, 4 of them heavy. At that frequency a wet-weather backup is not a contingency, it is the itinerary — book the indoor things first and treat the clear days as the bonus. Natural fibres and a second shirt for the day. At 87% nothing dries, including you.
What the averages hide
Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 9 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break; the day barely swings — 4.3 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest June day reached 33 °C and the coldest night fell to 23.3 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 61 mm — roughly 39% of the month's rain in one day.
June is statistically steady but not small: the year-to-year variation is modest in relative terms, yet the wettest June on record still delivered 266 mm against 95 mm in the driest. In a month this wet, even a tame spread is a lot of rain in absolute terms — the 158 mm average is a reasonable planning figure, not a promise.
Wind is light at 4.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity at 87% is the real story though — it is the number that decides how the day feels, not the 29.6 °C.
How June sits in the year
Temperatures hold steady either side: 30.2 °C in May, 29.6 here, 29.3 in July. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.
Daylight in June
Kuantan sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.3 hours in June, against a range of just 0.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.
Sea temperature
The sea sits at about 29.9 °C in June — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. This is the warmest the water gets all year.
How busy it gets
Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.
Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.
June in Kuantan versus nearby
If Kuantan is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Kuala Lumpur is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days less rain. Ipoh is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain.
So: June works, with February the better month by 16 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.
Every month in Kuantan
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Rain days | Rain mm | Humidity % | Daylight h | Sea °C | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.3 | 23.7 | 19 | 275 | 88 | 11.9 | 27.1 | 52 |
| February | 29 | 23.6 | 12 | 123 | 85 | 12 | 27.1 | 63 |
| March | 30 | 24.4 | 17 | 149 | 84 | 12.1 | 28.1 | 50 |
| April | 30.5 | 25.4 | 21 | 147 | 84 | 12.2 | 29.6 | 46 |
| May | 30.2 | 25.9 | 26 | 191 | 85 | 12.3 | 30.1 | 46 |
| June | 29.6 | 25.3 | 22 | 158 | 87 | 12.3 | 29.9 | 47 |
| July | 29.3 | 24.9 | 23 | 169 | 87 | 12.3 | 29.4 | 48 |
| August | 29.4 | 24.9 | 23 | 191 | 87 | 12.2 | 29 | 48 |
| September | 29.5 | 24.9 | 25 | 193 | 86 | 12.1 | 29.2 | 48 |
| October | 29.4 | 25 | 28 | 269 | 87 | 12 | 29.5 | 48 |
| November | 28.8 | 24.9 | 28 | 341 | 89 | 11.9 | 29.1 | 49 |
| December | 28.3 | 24.4 | 26 | 611 | 89 | 11.9 | 28 | 51 |
See all twelve months in Kuantan, or where else to go in June.
Planning the rest of the trip
- Flight time to Kuantan how long you are actually in the air
- Kuantan time zone and the difference from home
- Days until your trip count down to the departure date