Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Kinabalu weather
in October.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a hot month in Kota Kinabalu: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 264 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes October a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 00 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (6 km away). In October its highs average 28.5°C, about as warm as Kota Kinabalu, with 264 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu ranks 70th of 72 for the warmest October highs and joint 35th of 72 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 72 cities is 29.2°C; Kota Kinabalu is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 264 mm to 229 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Putatan in OctoberMalaysia · 6 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.7°C · 264 mm rain
- Keningau in OctoberMalaysia · 72 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.5°C · 157 mm rain
- Labuan in OctoberMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 24.8°C · 201 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in OctoberBrunei · 174 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 24.1°C · 254 mm rain
- Sandakan in OctoberMalaysia · 227 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.2°C · 282 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in OctoberMalaysia · 271 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.9°C · 193 mm rain
- Marudi in OctoberMalaysia · 278 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.2°C · 290 mm rain
- Tawau in OctoberMalaysia · 279 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.1°C · 214 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.