Crete vs Malaysia

Outdoor dining area with white sail shade canopies over wicker chairs and tables, black support columns, and sea views beyond.

Workers unload cardboard boxes and supplies from an open truck bed at Club Med Borneo.

Crete and Malaysia, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

Crete guide · Malaysia guide · How we score

By the numbers

Crete compared with Malaysia
Crete	Measure	Malaysia
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
16 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	1
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.2
$64–$2113/night pp	Nightly rates	–
5 of 16	Adults-only resorts	0 of 1
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–February	Rainy season	April–October, wettest September–October
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	December–March

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Crete

Malaysia

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Crete and Malaysia
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Crete · high °F	60	61	64	69	76	83	85	85	81	74	68	62
Malaysia · high °F	90	91	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Crete · rain (in)	3.5	3.0	2.2	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.8	2.7	2.3	3.0
Malaysia · rain (in)	1.4	2.0	4.1	7.4	9.1	7.0	7.8	8.5	12.8	13.5	9.2	3.5

Approximate climate normals for Crete (north coast) and Langkawi: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.