Durian Season Malaysia 2026: When It Starts & Which State
Decision details
Fits if: Buyers timing purchases, orchard owners planning harvest labour and fertilizer rounds, and anyone asking which state is fruiting now.
Main drawback: No verified source publishes a live month-by-month state season table, so this page refuses to print one; you get the routing instead.
Compare: Flowering trigger (dry spell), fruit-fill period, your state's harvest wave, current price band by grade, and where each check is officially answerable.
In this guide
Quick answer first: there is no single official month-by-month durian calendar for Malaysia, and any site that hands you one flat table is guessing. Durian flowers after a dry spell, the fruit then takes months to fill, and those triggers hit each state at a different time each year. So the honest way to answer “musim durian 2026” is three parts: how the stagger works, what actually got verified in 2026, and exactly where to check your own state’s wave right now.
When is durian season in Malaysia? (musim durian 2026 bulan apa)
The general principle, clearly framed as general: durian trees flower after a stretch of dry weather, and the fruit needs a long fill period after flowering before harvest. Two orchards in the same state can even be weeks apart depending on elevation and variety. The Department of Agriculture has registered 13 popular durian varieties among growers [source], and varieties do not all ripen together - which is exactly why a single national month table cannot be honest.
What we refuse to do is print state-by-state season months, because none of our verified sources (DOA, FAMA) publishes one. What IS officially published per state is the orchard programme timed around the tree’s cycle - for example Jabatan Pertanian Pulau Pinang schedules fruiting-tree fertilizer in three rounds tied directly to the cycle: a quarter of the annual dose 1-2 months before flowering, a quarter at early fruit set, and half after harvest [source]. That is the shape of an official “season anchor”: phase-relative, not date-fixed.
Which state is in season now? (musim durian sekarang di negeri mana)
Here is the part most pages skip: durian is not on FAMA’s daily price list. The full 38-row Panduan Harga Harian commodity list covers chicken, onions, chillies, greens and the like, and durian is explicitly among the fruits NOT listed [source]. The daily list is a wholesale-market guide for vegetables and chicken [source] - it will never tell you whether Perak is fruiting.
So “which state is in season right now” gets answered by routing, honestly:
| Check | What it answers | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| State Department of Agriculture office (Jabatan Pertanian negeri) | District-level fruiting and variety advisories; state fertilization programmes | Penang and Sarawak already publish durian programmes online; ask your state office for the district advisory [source] [source] |
| FAMA news / floor-price announcements | Glut and intervention events that mark a heavy national wave | The 2026 collapse coverage named the affected grades and the floor action - a strong signal of where supply peaked [source] |
| Orchards and pasar borong in your area | Whether your district's wave has actually started | Stalls stocking kampung and named varieties at falling prices are the live, local signal no feed carries |
| FAMA Panduan Harga Harian | NOT durian - vegetables and chicken only | Use it for basket crops; durian is explicitly not listed [source] |
The state rows: Sabah, Perak (Batu Kurau), Penang (Balik Pulau)
The mined demand leans on a few names - “musim durian sabah 2026”, “musim durian di perak”, “bila musim durian batu kurau”, “bila musim durian balik pulau”, “musim durian penang 2026” - so here are those rows, filled only with what is verifiable:
| State / area | What is verified for it | Where its season answer lives |
|---|---|---|
| Sabah | State fertilizer legislation exists (Agriculture Fertilizer Enactment 2025, in force 15 May 2025) [source] - East Malaysia runs its own regulatory lane; no verified Sabah durian season calendar in our sources | Sabah Department of Agriculture district offices; Sabah FAMA for intervention news |
| Perak (incl. Batu Kurau) | Batu Kurau is a durian district in the mined demand itself; no registry-verified Perak season window exists | Perak Department of Agriculture; Batu Kurau orchards and local collectors |
| Penang (incl. Balik Pulau) | Official DOA durian programme: NPK 12:12:17:2+TE or 13:13:20:2+TE at 6-8 kg/tree depending on age, three rounds a year, phased around flowering and harvest [source] [source] | Penang DOA programme pages; Balik Pulau orchard directories |
| Sarawak | Official DOA fertilization tables from year 1 through year 10+ [source] [source] | Sarawak DOA durian pages; state office advisories |
If a month is what you need, ask the state office or the orchard directly - both will give you a dated, local answer, which is more than any national table can honestly do.
How long does the season last? (musim durian 2026 sampai bila)
Each district’s wave lasts weeks; the national “season” is really a relay of state waves, and in a heavy year the oversupply tail runs long. The verified 2026 example: a season price collapse took low-grade Musang King from around RM90/kg down to RM9-10/kg, spread across types including Black Thorn, and FAMA publicly expected the phenomenon to persist to about August 2026 while stepping in with floor-price buying [source]. A season that “should” end in early summer overran it - that is what supply gluts do, and why “sampai bila” answers need this year’s facts, not last year’s folklore.
Verified price bands while seasons roll (kenapa murah semasa musim)
Every figure below is registry-keyed and era-stamped; bands move with the wave, so treat them as scale, not quotes:
| Grade / class | Band | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Musang King Grade A, retail | RM56-68/kg | asserted, 2026-09-28 [source] [source] |
| Mixed/Grade B inventory during glut | below RM30/kg | asserted, 2026-09-28 [source] |
| Kampung durian | RM1-4/kg | asserted, 2026-09-28 [source] [source] |
| FAMA kampung-grade floor (2026 intervention) | ~RM2.70/kg | asserted, 2026-09-28 [source] |
| 2026 collapse event, low-grade Musang King | ~RM90 falling to RM9-10/kg | measured, 2026-09-27 [source] |
That table is the real answer to “kenapa durian murah”: when several state waves land together, supply swamps the graders and even famous varieties crash until the floor action or the wave ends.
For growers: timing the programme around your state’s cycle
If you own trees, the season question is really a fertilizer-timing question, and there the official per-state material is genuinely good. Penang’s programme phases the annual dose around the tree: a quarter before flowering, a quarter at early fruit set, half after harvest [source], with NPK 12:12:17:2+TE or 13:13:20:2+TE at 6-8 kg per tree by age, three rounds a year [source]. Sarawak’s tables run from 0.08 kg per tree every two months in year one up to 5 kg from year ten [source] [source], and the national DOA package lists compound rates by tree age from 0.5 kg in year one [source].
Want that turned into a programme for your own orchard? Send your state, district and tree count:
Related pages
- Monthly durian price calendar - the price-by-month angle
- FAMA durian price official pages - how to read FAMA’s durian price channels
- Musang King price guide - grade structure behind the MK price
- Post-harvest durian fertilization - the recovery-feeding programme after your wave ends
Frequently asked questions
When is durian season in Malaysia?
There is no single fixed national season. Durian flowers after a dry spell and the fruit then needs months to fill out, so harvest waves roll through different states at different times and shift with each year's weather. Check your own state's wave through the routing in this page rather than a copied month table.
Which state is in durian season right now?
No official live feed answers this for every state. Durian is not on FAMA's daily Panduan Harga Harian list, so the honest check is your state Department of Agriculture office, orchard directories in your area, and wholesale market (pasar borong) stalls, plus FAMA news for floor-price interventions.
How long does the season last (sampai bila)?
Each area's wave lasts weeks, and the national supply tail stretches across the staggered state waves. In 2026 the oversupply price collapse FAMA spoke about was expected to persist to around August, showing how a heavy season can overrun its usual window.
Why did durian get so cheap in 2026?
A verified 2026 season collapse took low-grade Musang King from about RM90 down to RM9-10 per kg, hitting Black Thorn and other types too, and FAMA stepped in with floor-price action including a reported kampung-grade floor around RM2.70/kg. [source]
Is there an official jadual (calendar) of the durian season?
Not a month-by-month state one from our verified sources. What is official: the Department of Agriculture registers durian varieties (13 popular ones) and states like Penang and Sarawak publish orchard fertilization programmes timed around flowering and harvest - those state programmes are the closest official season anchors.