Johor Bahru
City in Malaysia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Johor Bahru city in 2015: Azharsofii, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Johor Bahru is a city in Malaysia, in Johor. About 858,118 people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Malaysia in our atlas.
It lies at 1.47° N, 103.76° E, about 32 m (105 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Johor Bahru. Green dots: other major cities of Malaysia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Johor Bahru has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 24°C (74°F). Around 2,368 mm (93 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in MalaysiaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Pelentong · 10 km
- Iskandar Puteri · 17 km
- Malacca · 187 km
- Kuantan · 264 km
- Kuala Lumpur · 296 km
- Petaling Jaya · 300 km
- Shah Alam · 305 km
- Kampung Baru Subang · 310 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1732752 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q231318 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Johor Bahru city in 2015: Azharsofii, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Singapore Zoo: No machine-readable author provided. Terence assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Night Safari entrance 2016: Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kai Kai: ProjectManhattan, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Zoo Johor entrance: Stress 043, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- THEASTAKAJB: City counseling, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- SultanPalastJB: AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Johor Bahru City Square: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Johor Art Gallery: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
