Skip to content
Safe Trip
Malaysia·Score timeline

Malaysia safety score history and timeline

Daily Safe Trip Score for the last 7 days, the 30-day events feed across all categories, and a narrative of what moved the score. Updated daily.

Safe Trip Score
68Low risk · exercise caution
Score timeline is a reference surface, not a single sub-score

7-day Safe Trip Score

71
05-26
71
05-27
71
05-28
70
05-29
70
05-30
68
05-31
68
06-01
7-day change -3Tone today: Low risk · exercise caution

Recent events feed

  • air_qualityWAQIyesterday
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 113 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 113 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 113 · PM10 AQI 48 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQIyesterday
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 123 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 123 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 123 · PM10 AQI 50 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQIyesterday
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 104 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 104 · PM10 AQI 45 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQIyesterday
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 101 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 101 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 101 · PM10 AQI 43 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI3d ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 107 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 107 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 107 · PM10 AQI 48 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 101 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 101 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 101 · PM10 AQI 39 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 104 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 104 · PM10 AQI 39 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 115 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 115 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 115 · PM10 AQI 44 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 128 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 128 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 128 · PM10 AQI 55 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 139 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 139 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 139 · PM10 AQI 59 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 104 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 104 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 104 · PM10 AQI 41 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0
  • air_qualityWAQI1w ago
    Air quality · Unhealthy for sensitive groups · AQI 117 · Kuala Lumpur
    AQI 117 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups) · PM2.5 AQI 117 · PM10 AQI 48 · dominant: pm25
    Source →
    -3.0

Live foreign-ministry advisory tier

  • Level 2UK FCDO
    FCDO advises against all but essential travel to parts
  • Level 1U.S. State Department
    Level 1, Exercise Normal Precautions
  • Level 3Smartraveller (AU)
    Reconsider your need to travel

Reading this trend

What moves the Safe Trip Score

Malaysia’s 7-day change is -3 points. Day-to-day moves under 3 points are noise: small advisory rewordings, individual events expiring out of the lookback window, score normalisation. Moves of 3 to 7 points reflect a real event, typically a new ministry advisory or a moderate-severity disaster / outbreak. Moves above 7 points are usually a level change on a major advisory or a high-severity acute event; check the events feed above to identify the driver. The current tone reads as low risk · exercise caution.

When a drop should change your plans

A score drop alone is not a cancellation signal; the cause is. If the drop traces to an outbreak in a region you are not visiting, the country-level score moved but your itinerary’s risk did not. If it traces to a foreign-ministry advisory upgrading the specific region you are visiting, that is the actionable signal. The Methodology page documents the weighting, and the Field Manual guides cover the cancel-push-alter decision tree per hazard category. For watchlisted countries, Safe Trip Pro pushes a notification when the score drops by your chosen threshold; the default is 5 points.

Related for Malaysia

Frequently asked about Malaysia

What does the Safe Trip Score for Malaysia mean?

Malaysia's overall score is 68/100 (low risk · exercise caution). The score is calibrated on a 0 to 100 scale where 100 means very low risk and 0 means extreme risk. It blends six sub-scores (disease, conflict, disaster, crime, civil unrest, infrastructure) plus a 20% blend of major foreign-ministry advisories. See the Methodology page for the full weighting.

Why did Malaysia's score change?

Day-to-day moves under 3 points are noise. Moves of 3 to 7 points reflect a real event, typically a ministry advisory rewording or a moderate-severity disaster / outbreak. Moves above 7 points are usually a level change on a major advisory or a high-severity acute event. The events feed above identifies the driver.

How often does the Malaysia Safe Trip Score update?

The score recomputes once per day after the morning ingestion sweep. Live event feeds (USGS earthquakes, GDACS disasters, WAQI air quality) update hourly. Foreign-ministry advisories are checked daily. The status page shows the freshness of every feed.