Climate
Miri has a tropical rainforest climate. There are two monsoon seasons: the southwest monsoon, which is the dry season from April to September and the northeast monsoon, which is the wet season from October to March. The annual rainfall is around 250 to 380 cm (100 to 150 inches). The air temperature is between 23 to 32 °C (74 to 90 °F) the whole year round. But in rare occasion, temperature can reached down to 18 °C to 16 °C especially in the month of November, December and January. Lowest ever recorded is in December 2010 where temperature dropped down to 11 °C. On 2012, February 2, a foggy weather cover up the whole town reduced visibility to 40 percent and lowest temperature recorded at that month is 16 °C in the early morning until 10am .
| Climate data for Miri | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 33 (91) |
34 (93) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
34 (93) |
34 (93) |
35 (95) |
34 (93) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
34 (93) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 30 (86) |
30 (86) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
31 (87.0) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 22 (72) |
22 (72) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
22.9 (73.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 16 (61) |
18 (64) |
20 (68) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
21 (70) |
20 (68) |
18 (64) |
11 (52) |
11 (52) |
| Precipitation cm (inches) | 15.3 (6.02) |
10.25 (4.035) |
11.66 (4.591) |
12.34 (4.858) |
15.22 (5.992) |
14.66 (5.772) |
12.72 (5.008) |
15.72 (6.189) |
19.45 (7.657) |
24.18 (9.52) |
20.54 (8.087) |
24.74 (9.74) |
196.78 (77.47) |
| Source: MSN Weather | |||||||||||||
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