Asia · Southeast Asia
Malaysia
42 cities in the atlas · 26 airports with scheduled flights
Kinabalu Park · Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Kuala Lumpur
- Currency
- MYR
- Malaysian Ringgit
- Local time
- Malaysia TimeUTC+08:00
- Calling code
- +60
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type G
Facts
Malaysia in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Kuala Lumpur
- Currency
- Malaysian Ringgit MYRToday's indicative rate: MYR 1 ≈ USD 0.245Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: MalaySpoken: Malay, English, Chinese, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
- Time zones
- Malaysia TimeUTC+08:00
- Calling code
- +60
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type G240 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 999ambulance, fire and policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 35,977,838 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 329,750 km²
- Internet domain
- .my
When to go
Climate across Malaysia
In February, more than half of the 32 cities with figures in Malaysia have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuala Lumpur | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° |
| Johor Bahru | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Malacca | 29° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° |
| Kuching | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Kota Kinabalu | 27° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° |
| George Town | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| Ipoh | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 26° |
| Shah Alam | 29° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° |
| Kota Bharu | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 28° |
| Alor Setar | 29° | 30° | 31° | 31° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 29° |
| Cities good for going, of 32 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
Cities
Cities in Malaysia
All 42 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
- Kuala LumpurCapitalGuide1,453,975
- Johor BahruJohor858,118
- Kampung Baru SubangSelangor833,571
- Petaling JayaSelangor807,879
- IpohPerak759,952
- Shah AlamSelangor740,750
- Bukit Rahman PutraSelangor607,000
- PelentongJohor583,640
- MalaccaMelaka579,000
- Iskandar PuteriJohor575,977
- Kota BharuKelantan568,900
- KuantanPahang548,014
- Kota Kuala MudaKedah544,984
- Sungai PetaniKedah544,851
- Selayang Baru UtaraSelangor542,409
- Pasir GudangJohor534,659
- Mukim PulaiJohor505,661
- Kota KinabaluSabah500,421
- Kampung Larkin LamaJohor500,000
- Kota DamansaraSelangor500,000
- SandakanSabah439,050
- Kuala TerengganuTerengganu426,500
- Alor SetarKedah417,800
- KuchingSarawak402,738
- PuchongSelangor375,181
- SerembanNegeri Sembilan372,917
- TawauSabah372,615
- SetapakSelangor353,268
- KluangJohor323,762
- MuarJohor314,776
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Airports
Airports in Malaysia
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
- JHBSenai International AirportJohor Bahru
- SZBSultan Abdul Aziz Shah International AirportKampung Baru Subang
- IPHSultan Azlan Shah AirportIpoh
- BKIKota Kinabalu International AirportKota Kinabalu
- KCHKuching International AirportKuching
- KULKuala Lumpur International AirportSepang
- PENPenang International AirportGeorge Town
- LGKLangkawi International AirportKuah
Photographs
Malaysia in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
Kuala LumpurPhoto: naim fadil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Guides
Our guides in Malaysia
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Malaysia
Tell us where in Malaysia, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.