Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Kinabalu weather
in November.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a hot month in Kota Kinabalu: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 229 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes November a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (6 km away). In November its highs average 28.4°C, about as warm as Kota Kinabalu, with 229 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu ranks joint 65th of 72 for the warmest November highs and joint 5th of 72 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 72 cities is 28.7°C; Kota Kinabalu is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs stay level at 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 229 mm to 212 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Putatan in NovemberMalaysia · 6 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.7°C · 229 mm rain
- Keningau in NovemberMalaysia · 72 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 21.5°C · 165 mm rain
- Labuan in NovemberMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 24.8°C · 190 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in NovemberBrunei · 174 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.1°C · 232 mm rain
- Sandakan in NovemberMalaysia · 227 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 278 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in NovemberMalaysia · 271 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 23.9°C · 153 mm rain
- Marudi in NovemberMalaysia · 278 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.1°C · 313 mm rain
- Tawau in NovemberMalaysia · 279 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 192 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.