Climate averages 1991–2020

Keningau weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: one of the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 158 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Keningau: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 21.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 158 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (66 km away). In January its highs average 28.2°C, about as warm as Keningau, with 153 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Keningau ranks joint 43rd of 72 for the warmest January highs and 20th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Keningau is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 158 mm to 119 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Keningau climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Keningau, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.7°C21.3°C	21.3°C	158	19.9	11.812 h
February	29.4°C21.3°C	21.3°C	119	17.0	11.912 h
March	30.0°C21.6°C	21.6°C	134	19.7	12.112 h
April	30.4°C22.0°C	22.0°C	155	21.4	12.212 h
May	30.1°C22.1°C	22.1°C	163	23.0	12.412 h
June	29.7°C21.8°C	21.8°C	132	19.8	12.412 h
July	29.6°C21.6°C	21.6°C	118	17.4	12.412 h
August	30.0°C21.7°C	21.7°C	124	18.0	12.312 h
September	29.9°C21.7°C	21.7°C	122	18.8	12.212 h
October	29.1°C21.5°C	21.5°C	157	23.0	12.012 h
November	28.9°C21.5°C	21.5°C	165	25.0	11.912 h
December	28.7°C21.5°C	21.5°C	162	22.9	11.812 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Keningau

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Keningau) is explained once on the Keningau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.