Petaling Jaya
City in Malaysia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
RapidKL Kelana Jaya line Petaling Jaya: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Petaling Jaya is a city in Malaysia, in Selangor. About 807,879 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Malaysia in our atlas.
It lies at 3.11° N, 101.61° E, about 45 m (148 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Petaling Jaya. Green dots: other major cities of Malaysia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Petaling Jaya 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 21°C (70°F). Around 2,522 mm (99 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
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
- Shah Alam · 9 km
- Kampung Baru Subang · 9 km
- Kuala Lumpur · 10 km
- Bukit Rahman Putra · 13 km
- Malacca · 123 km
- Ipoh · 174 km
- Kuantan · 206 km
- Iskandar Puteri · 294 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1735158 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q864965 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- RapidKL Kelana Jaya line Petaling Jaya: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Petaling Jaya Stadium. 2019-12-12 18-36-16: Shesmax, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museum of Asian Art UM (220408): *angys*, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Angkasapuri, Kuala Lumpur: User:Two hundred percent., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Petaling Jaya Museum: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Petaling Jaya City Council: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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