Kuantan
City in Malaysia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Kuantan Street - Wall St: Only Truth at English Wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kuantan is a city in Malaysia, in Pahang. About 548,014 people live in the city proper, making it the 12th largest city of Malaysia in our atlas.
It lies at 3.81° N, 103.33° E, about 12 m (39 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Kuantan. Green dots: other major cities of Malaysia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kuantan has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 29°C (85°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 22°C (72°F). Around 2,816 mm (111 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
- Kuala Lumpur · 196 km
- Petaling Jaya · 206 km
- Bukit Rahman Putra · 206 km
- Kampung Baru Subang · 212 km
- Shah Alam · 214 km
- Malacca · 216 km
- Pelentong · 259 km
- Ipoh · 263 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1735227 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q49278631 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Kuantan Street - Wall St: Only Truth at English Wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Darul Makmur Stadium: Acs 2444, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kuantan 188 Tower: SvenKalbhenn, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
