Weekly note
Taman Negara
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Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high29°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon34°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more16 · 276 mm
Humidity86%
Sunshine8.0 h/day
Daylight11.9 h/day
Crowds80 / 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 Kuala Tahan, the park's gateway: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: quiet. Busiest in July and August; quietest from November to January.

Public holidays in December

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Taman Negara in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 29°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 16 rainy days and 276 mm.
  • Humidity averages 86%; 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 Taman Negara: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

In December from

The other months at Taman Negara

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