Air quality in Melaka right now
Highest station AQI
65Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
- Measured at
- Bandaraya Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia
- Reading taken
- 12:00 pm
- Stations reporting
- 3 of 3
- Latest day vs previous
- Up 2 from 65
As of 28 Oct, 12:00 pm MYT, the highest reporting monitoring station in Melaka recorded a US EPA Air Quality Index of 65, which is Moderate. The reading came from Bandaraya Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia, with 3 of 3 stations in the region reporting. This is not Malaysia's official Air Pollutant Index.
Melaka’s recent air quality
Built from our own archive of hourly readings, so it shows what actually happened here rather than only what is happening now.
Highest station reading in Melaka each hour, on the US EPA AQI scale. A break in the line is an hour with no reporting station, not a reading of zero.
The highest reading recorded in Melaka on each day, Malaysian time. Days with no reporting station are absent rather than shown as zero.
The worst reading we hold for Melaka is 180 on Friday, 16 October 2026. In the last 13 days, 10 days have had at least one hour at 101 or above.
Our archive for this region starts Friday, 16 October 2026 and now covers 13 days.
Show the last 13 days as a table
| Date | Peak | Band | Mean of hourly peaks | Hours at 101+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 28 October 2026 | 67 | Moderate | 65 | 0 of 13 |
| Tuesday, 27 October 2026 | 65 | Moderate | 58 | 0 of 23 |
| Monday, 26 October 2026 | 47 | Good | 41 | 0 of 24 |
| Sunday, 25 October 2026 | 159 | Unhealthy | 93 | 6 of 23 |
| Saturday, 24 October 2026 | 165 | Unhealthy | 161 | 24 of 24 |
| Friday, 23 October 2026 | 157 | Unhealthy | 149 | 24 of 24 |
| Thursday, 22 October 2026 | 169 | Unhealthy | 149 | 23 of 24 |
| Wednesday, 21 October 2026 | 174 | Unhealthy | 173 | 24 of 24 |
| Tuesday, 20 October 2026 | 171 | Unhealthy | 165 | 24 of 24 |
| Monday, 19 October 2026 | 170 | Unhealthy | 166 | 24 of 24 |
| Sunday, 18 October 2026 | 166 | Unhealthy | 164 | 24 of 24 |
| Saturday, 17 October 2026 | 175 | Unhealthy | 169 | 24 of 24 |
| Friday, 16 October 2026 | 180 | Unhealthy | 178 | 22 of 22 |
Monitoring stations in Melaka
Every station inside the state boundary that has published recently. The headline figure above is the highest of these, never an average.
| Station | AQI | Band | Reading taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bandaraya Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia | 65 | Moderate | 12:00 pm |
| Alor Gajah, Melaka, Malaysia | 64 | Moderate | 11:00 am |
| Bukit Rambai, Melaka, Malaysia | 62 | Moderate | 12:00 pm |
US EPA AQI scale (WAQI)
- Good 0–50
- Moderate 51–100
- Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 101–150
- Unhealthy 151–200
- Very Unhealthy 201–300
- Hazardous 301+
- No current data
What drives air quality in Melaka
Why this state’s readings move the way they do.
Melaka is small, flat and almost entirely coastal, facing directly onto the Strait of Malacca. That position makes it one of the first parts of the peninsula to feel smoke carried over from Sumatra, and the state is narrow enough that a single station’s reading is usually representative of most of it.
Main local sources
- Transboundary haze crossing the Strait of Malacca from Sumatra
- Traffic through the Melaka City conurbation and along the coastal trunk road
- Port and light industrial activity
- Still, humid conditions that hold particulates near ground level
How the year runs here
Melaka’s exposure peaks with the southwest monsoon between June and September, when the prevailing wind comes straight across the Strait. Outside that window it is more often its own traffic that sets the figure.
Readings on this page cover Melaka City, Alor Gajah, Jasin and Ayer Keroh, to the extent that stations in those areas are reporting. Each figure is named with the station it came from, so you can judge how close it is to you.
Jerebu and haze in Melaka
When the air here crosses into unhealthy territory, we write it up.
We publish a dated bulletin for every day on which any Malaysian state reaches AQI 101 or above — the point at which health advice starts naming who should stay indoors. The bulletins are built from the same hourly archive as the charts above, so they record what the stations actually read rather than restating a headline.
Melaka has had 10 such days in the last 13.
Read the haze bulletins →Air quality in Melaka: common questions
Asked about this state specifically.
Why does Melaka feel the haze before other states?
It sits on the narrowest, most directly exposed stretch of the Strait of Malacca coast. When smoke from Sumatran fires is carried northeast on the southwest monsoon, the Melaka–Port Dickson coastline is among the first land it reaches.
Is one station enough to represent the whole of Melaka?
Melaka is the second-smallest state and its districts are within about 40 km of one another, so a single reading travels further here than it would in Pahang or Sarawak. We still show how many stations are reporting, so you can judge the coverage behind the figure yourself.
For how the index is calculated, why it differs from Malaysia’s official API, and where the data comes from, see the national air quality page.
Air quality elsewhere in Malaysia
Live readings for every other state and territory.
Readings from the World Air Quality Index project, on the US EPA scale. This is not Malaysia’s official Air Pollutant Index — for that, see APIMS from the Department of Environment. State boundaries from geoBoundaries (ADM1, CC BY 4.0).