Rise 06:01 Set 17:57Day 11 h 55 minUV 3 · Moderate
Morning, afternoon, evening
Trend
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ S 13 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.9 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ WSW 14 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 0.7 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Rain showers
30°29°
Feels like 42°
Wind↑ W 11 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 2.6 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
28°27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ SSE 8 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 14.3 mm
⚡ storm
08:00
28°
0.7mm
SSW 6
11:00
28°
WSW 14
14:00
30°
0.2mm
W 4
17:00
29°
2.4mm
WSW 11
20:00
27°
11.1mm
SE 4
23:00
28°
3.2mm
SSE 8
02:00
26°
6.9mm
S 6
05:00
27°
1.2mm
S 8
Night
Rain
27°26°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ S 8 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 8.1 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ SW 12 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 2.2 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ WSW 10 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 6.4 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
27°26°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ SSE 15 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 9.4 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Light rain
26°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ SSW 26 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 3.9 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ SSW 11 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 0.6 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
29°28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ WSW 9 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 0.2 mm
Evening
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ SE 9 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 1.8 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°26°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ESE 7 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 0.7 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 1.0 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Clear sky
30°29°
Feels like 42°
Wind↑ NNE 14 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 0.2 mm
Evening
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 2.1 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ SE 5 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 3.6 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Mainly clear
29°28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ WNW 8 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
30°29°
Feels like 42°
Wind↑ NNW 11 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 1.9 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ ESE 8 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 4.6 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ S 6 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 3.6 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ WNW 8 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
29°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ NNW 12 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 0.5 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
28°27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ E 9 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 6.2 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ SSE 8 km/h
Humidity 74 %
💧 4.0 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ WSW 10 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.3 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Rain showers
29°
Feels like 42°
Wind↑ NNW 4 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 1.4 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ ESE 7 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 5.2 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ SE 9 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 2.2 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
30°29°
Feels like 42°
Wind↑ N 6 km/h
Humidity 78 %
💧 0.4 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
28°27°
Feels like 40°
Wind↑ ENE 8 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 3.2 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ SE 8 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 1.1 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ S 8 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 1.1 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Rain showers
29°28°
Feels like 41°
Wind↑ NNW 9 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 2.1 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain
27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ SSE 6 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 9.2 mm
⚡ storm
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ SSE 6 km/h
Humidity 74 %
💧 0.7 mm
⚡ storm
Morning
Partly cloudy
28°27°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ WNW 5 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ NNW 6 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 0.3 mm
⚡ storm
10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
26°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ ESE 8 km/h
Humidity 73 %
Afternoon
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ NW 9 km/h
Humidity 67 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ESE 7 km/h
Humidity 73 %
Afternoon
Rain showers
29°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ NNW 12 km/h
Humidity 68 %
💧 0.6 mm
⚡ storm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ ESE 8 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 1.0 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Rain showers
28°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ NNW 13 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 0.9 mm
⚡ storm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ESE 9 km/h
Humidity 74 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ NW 11 km/h
Humidity 71 %
Kota Kinabalu forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Kota Kinabalu climate: what a normal year looks like
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 28 °C in January to 29 °C in May, and the coolest nights (February) average 22 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 2,820 mm of rain — more than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 182 mm and 294 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (28 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
28 °C
22 °C
243 mm
Feb
28 °C
22 °C
182 mm
Mar
28 °C
22 °C
197 mm
Apr
29 °C
23 °C
222 mm
May
29 °C
23 °C
259 mm
Jun
29 °C
23 °C
240 mm
Jul
29 °C
23 °C
199 mm
Aug
29 °C
23 °C
211 mm
Sep
29 °C
22 °C
207 mm
Oct
28 °C
22 °C
280 mm
Nov
28 °C
22 °C
294 mm
Dec
28 °C
23 °C
291 mm
Whole year
29 °C
23 °C
2,820 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.98° N, 116.07° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Kota Kinabalu: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM105µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kota Kinabalu
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kota Kinabalu, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kota Kinabalu yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kota Kinabalu
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:50 Set 06:51
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kuching); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kota Kinabalu
Curious about the weather in Kota Kinabalu on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kota Kinabalu weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 29 °C (feels like 41 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 26 °C to 30 °C and around 26 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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