Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Kinabalu weather
in July.
A hot, wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Kota Kinabalu: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes July a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (6 km away). In July its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Kota Kinabalu, with 166 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu ranks joint 55th of 72 for the warmest July highs and joint 44th of 72 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 72 cities is 29.8°C; Kota Kinabalu is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 166 mm to 178 mm.
The annual picture
July 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 | 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Putatan in JulyMalaysia · 6 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 166 mm rain
- Keningau in JulyMalaysia · 72 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 21.6°C · 118 mm rain
- Labuan in JulyMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 25.3°C · 144 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in JulyBrunei · 174 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.5°C · 179 mm rain
- Sandakan in JulyMalaysia · 227 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.4°C · 222 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in JulyMalaysia · 271 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 164 mm rain
- Marudi in JulyMalaysia · 278 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 23.4°C · 205 mm rain
- Tawau in JulyMalaysia · 279 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 24.1°C · 200 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.