Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Kinabalu weather
in February.
A hot, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Kota Kinabalu: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes February a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (6 km away). In February its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Kota Kinabalu, with 99 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu ranks joint 66th of 72 for the warmest February highs and joint 20th of 72 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 72 cities is 29.7°C; Kota Kinabalu is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 99 mm to 93 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Putatan in FebruaryMalaysia · 6 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.3°C · 99 mm rain
- Keningau in FebruaryMalaysia · 72 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 21.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Labuan in FebruaryMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 24.7°C · 82 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in FebruaryBrunei · 174 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.0°C · 105 mm rain
- Sandakan in FebruaryMalaysia · 227 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 23.8°C · 217 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in FebruaryMalaysia · 271 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Marudi in FebruaryMalaysia · 278 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.0°C · 206 mm rain
- Tawau in FebruaryMalaysia · 279 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.2°C · 113 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.