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Sandakan weather

Sabah · 439,050 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:06

Air: Good High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sun

26°

Clear sky

Feels like 38°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

96 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

11 %

Storm

Rise 05:53 Set 17:49 Day 11 h 55 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

26°24°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ SSW 4 km/h

Humidity 96 %

💧 0.1 mm

Morning

Clear sky

32°28°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ SW 4 km/h

Humidity 55 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

32°29°

Feels like 44°

Wind ↑ NE 10 km/h

Gusts 20 km/h

Humidity 66 %

Evening

Rain showers

28°25°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ W 2 km/h

Gusts 8 km/h

Humidity 88 %

💧 1.6 mm

⚡ storm

08:00

28°

SW 4

11:00

32°

SE 4

14:00

32°

NE 6

17:00

29°

NE 10

20:00

28°

0.2mm

W 2

23:00

25°

1.4mm

SSE 1

02:00

26°

1.6mm

WSW 4

05:00

24°

WSW 3

Sandakan 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)

Sandakan climate: what a normal year looks like

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — January, the mildest, still averages 30 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 3,030 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 179 mm and 303 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	23 °C	299 mm
Feb	30 °C	23 °C	226 mm
Mar	32 °C	23 °C	209 mm
Apr	33 °C	24 °C	179 mm
May	33 °C	24 °C	250 mm
Jun	32 °C	24 °C	252 mm
Jul	32 °C	24 °C	231 mm
Aug	33 °C	24 °C	236 mm
Sep	33 °C	24 °C	256 mm
Oct	32 °C	24 °C	297 mm
Nov	32 °C	24 °C	292 mm
Dec	31 °C	24 °C	303 mm
Whole year	32 °C	24 °C	3,030 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.81° N, 118.07° 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 Sandakan: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.59µg/m³

PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sandakan

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sandakan, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Sandakan yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Sandakan

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 18:42 Set 06:42

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kuching); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Sandakan

Curious about the weather in Sandakan on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Sandakan weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sandakan, Sabah: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 26 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 32 °C and around 3 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.

Other big cities nearby

Tawau 177 km 26°

Kota Kinabalu 222 km 27°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations