Langkawi, Kedah; Kedah Serata-Rata | Langkawi, Kedah - Kedah All Over
Langkawi is the easy Malaysian island stop: beach resorts, cable car, night markets, mangroves, waterfalls, and enough road distance to make a car or driver useful. It is a soft reset between denser city stops.
Weather affects boat trips, and some resort areas feel isolated from local life. Choose location carefully if you do not plan to rent a car or use taxis often. In Langkawi, build in a margin for closures and delays. Use Langkawi with room for Sunday closures, holidays, queues, traffic, and cross-town movement.
Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
About 57% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 29°C, lows around 26°C.
About 114mm of rain a month, against 250mm in the wet season.
Langkawi, officially known as Langkawi, the Jewel of Kedah, is a duty-free island and an archipelago of 99 islands located some 30 kilometres (19 mi) off the coast of northwestern Malaysia and a few kilometres south of Ko Tarutao, adjacent to the Thai border. Politically, it is an administrative district of Kedah, with Kuah as its largest town. Langkawi was developed as a tourist destination in the 1980s, and Pantai Cenang is the island's most popular beach and tourist area.
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