Weekly note

The numbers

Daily high31°C
Nightly low23°C
Feels like, afternoon37°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more16 · 245 mm
Humidity82%
Sunshine9.1 h/day
Daylight12.3 h/day
Days over 35°C1
Crowds75 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the old town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: about usual. Busiest in September and November; quietest in October.

Public holidays in August

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Ipoh in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 31°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 16 rainy days and 245 mm.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 82%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type G plugs at 240 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Malaysian ringgit. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Malaysia: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Ipoh: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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