Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Kinabalu weather
in April.
A hot, wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Kota Kinabalu: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes April a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (6 km away). In April its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Kota Kinabalu, with 110 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu ranks joint 70th of 72 for the warmest April highs and joint 3rd of 72 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 72 cities is 30.1°C; Kota Kinabalu is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 110 mm to 163 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Kota Kinabalu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.1°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 153 | 18.5 | 11.812 h |
| February | 28.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 99 | 14.3 | 11.912 h |
| March | 28.8°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 93 | 15.9 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 29.2°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 110 | 19.4 | 12.212 h |
| May | 29.3°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 163 | 21.8 | 12.412 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 187 | 18.5 | 12.512 h |
| July | 29.2°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 166 | 18.3 | 12.412 h |
| August | 29.4°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 178 | 17.9 | 12.312 h |
| September | 29.1°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 173 | 19.8 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 264 | 26.1 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 229 | 26.2 | 11.912 h |
| December | 28.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 212 | 24.8 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Putatan in AprilMalaysia · 6 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.2°C · 110 mm rain
- Keningau in AprilMalaysia · 72 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 22.0°C · 155 mm rain
- Labuan in AprilMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in AprilBrunei · 174 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 131 mm rain
- Sandakan in AprilMalaysia · 227 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.6°C · 169 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in AprilMalaysia · 271 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.2°C · 121 mm rain
- Marudi in AprilMalaysia · 278 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.6°C · 244 mm rain
- Tawau in AprilMalaysia · 279 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 163 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kota Kinabalu) is explained once on the Kota Kinabalu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Putatan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.