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Riyadh from Kuala Lumpur
6,352 km, about 8h 40m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Riyadh and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.
- JanJRiyadh in January: good, busy
- FebFRiyadh in February: sweet spot
- MarMRiyadh in March: sweet spot
- AprARiyadh in April: sweet spot
- MayMRiyadh in May: avoid
- JunJRiyadh in June: avoid
- JulJRiyadh in July: avoid
- AugARiyadh in August: avoid
- SepSRiyadh in September: avoid
- OctORiyadh in October: avoid
- NovNRiyadh in November: good, busy
- DecDRiyadh in December: good, busy
- Sweet spot
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- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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Month by month from Kuala Lumpur
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| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Crowds | Verdict | Why |
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| Jan | 20° | 2d | 65 | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Feb | 23° | 2d | 100 | sweet spot | 23C max, 2 rainy days |
| Mar | 28° | 2d | 100 | sweet spot | 28C max, 2 rainy days |
| Apr | 33° | 2d | 98 | sweet spot | 33C max, 2 rainy days |
| May | 38° | 0d | 100 | avoid | extreme heat: 27 days over 35C |
| Jun | 42° | 0d | 100 | avoid | extreme heat: 30 days over 35C |
| Jul | 43° | 0d | 100 | avoid | extreme heat: 31 days over 35C |
| Aug | 43° | 0d | 100 | avoid | extreme heat: 31 days over 35C |
| Sep | 40° | 0d | 100 | avoid | extreme heat: 30 days over 35C |
| Oct | 34° | 0d | 100 | avoid | extreme heat: 15 days over 35C |
| Nov | 27° | 2d | 65 | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Dec | 22° | 2d | 65 | goodbusy | busier than usual |
Rain days are the days with at least 2 mm of rain.
Crowds is a score out of 100 where higher is quieter. It counts public-holiday clusters in MY as well as at Riyadh, which is why this table differs from the same one read from another country. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. Crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
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| Nonstop flight | Riyadh Air, Saudia |
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Nonstop routes from Wikipedia's airport articles (CC BY-SA 4.0), roads from OpenRouteService, ferries from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Times are typical, not a schedule, and none of this is a fare — the searches below are where prices live.
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