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Tawau weather

Sabah · 372,615 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:05

Air: Fair Moderate storm risk · Tomorrow, Sun, Mon

26°

Mainly clear

Feels like 38°C

Wind

5 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

87 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

24 %

Storm

Rise 05:52 Set 17:51 Day 11 h 58 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Mainly clear

26°24°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ NNE 5 km/h

Humidity 87 %

Morning

Mainly clear

30°28°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ SSE 8 km/h

Humidity 64 %

Afternoon

Mainly clear

31°28°

Feels like 43°

Wind ↑ ESE 10 km/h

Humidity 69 %

Evening

Clear sky

29°26°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ ENE 9 km/h

Gusts 17 km/h

Humidity 79 %

08:00

28°

NNW 2

11:00

30°

SSE 8

14:00

31°

SE 6

17:00

28°

ESE 10

20:00

29°

ENE 7

23:00

26°

NE 9

02:00

27°

0.1mm

N 5

05:00

25°

0.1mm

NNW 4

Tawau 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)

Tawau climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from February to December; the typical peak is 31 °C in May.

A normal year brings roughly 2,390 mm of rain — more than 93% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 135 mm and 235 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 30 °C, against a usual 30 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	24 °C	179 mm
Feb	30 °C	24 °C	135 mm
Mar	31 °C	24 °C	170 mm
Apr	31 °C	25 °C	184 mm
May	31 °C	25 °C	235 mm
Jun	30 °C	24 °C	229 mm
Jul	30 °C	24 °C	209 mm
Aug	30 °C	24 °C	204 mm
Sep	30 °C	24 °C	196 mm
Oct	30 °C	24 °C	234 mm
Nov	31 °C	24 °C	209 mm
Dec	30 °C	24 °C	209 mm
Whole year	30 °C	24 °C	2,390 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 4.23° N, 117.88° 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 Tawau: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.513µg/m³

PM1015µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tawau

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Tawau, 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 Tawau yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Tawau

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 18:46 Set 06:39

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 Tawau

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

Tawau weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tawau, Sabah: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 26 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; 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

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