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Sarawak, today.

Check the skies before you step outside.

Here in SarawakMalaysia Time · UTC+8

Malaysia Time · UTC+8

Sunrise 06:21Sunset 18:25
Sun times for Kuching

Kuching weather

Model estimate
29°C

Drizzle

Feels like 36°C
Humidity
76%
Wind
2 km/h
Rain now
0.1 mm
Previous 15 minutes

Data time · 20 Oct, 10:30 MYT

Haze & air quality

Model estimate
77US AQI

Moderate

PM2.5
17.2 µg/m³
PM10
19.6 µg/m³

An air-quality estimate, not Malaysia’s official API or confirmation of smoke haze.

Check official APIMS ↗

Data time · 20 Oct, 10:00 MYT

Plan by the landscape

Three ways to read the day.

Weather feels different by the river, in the city and beneath the rainforest canopy. Check conditions, then choose your pace.

Darul Hana Bridge over the Sarawak River at sunsetKuchingAn evening by the riverClayborneoguy · CC BY-SA 4.0Palm-lined path leading to the pavilion at Miri City FanMiriA green pause in the cityJohnragai-Moment Catcher · CC BY 2.0The limestone Pinnacles rising through mist at Gunung Mulu National ParkMuluWhere weather shapes the journeyNur Nafis Naim · CC BY-SA 4.0

A look at the next few days

Full weather & haze guide ↗
Today

Rain showers

30° / 24°

Rain chance 100%Peak UV 8.9
Wed 21 Oct

Rain showers

32° / 24°

Rain chance 100%Peak UV 3.5
Thu 22 Oct

Rain showers

32° / 23°

Rain chance 98%Peak UV 8.6

Weather: Open-Meteo. Air quality: CAMS via Open-Meteo. Checks every 15 minutes. All times MYT.

Official weather warnings: METMalaysia ↗

At Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK)
Business· 3 min read

Sarawak Youth StartUP: who can join, what it teaches, and the RM3m grant behind it

The state's youth entrepreneurship programme has now run in Kuching, Miri and Sibu, with a RM3 million grant pool and a RM25 million soft-loan line approved behind it.

Muhammad Kashif· 18 OctWhatsAppFacebook
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The undersea cables that carry Sarawak's internet, and the ones still being built

Muhammad Kashif5 min readFeeding almost over, this female appears to be planning her next move. Note here characteristic pot belly. And no, she is not pregrant- this is a standard feature of this speciesl The proboscis monkey is assessed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and listed in Appendix I of CIBusiness

BUDI Agri-Komoditi in Sarawak: RM400 a month, who qualifies and which board checks

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Kuching AI Data Campus: what Sarawak plans at Tanjung Embang, and the chips behind it

Muhammad Kashif4 min read
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River mornings, rainforest trails and a place at the breakfast table.

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