Climate averages 1991–2020
Kota Kinabalu weather
in September.
A hot, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Kota Kinabalu: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes September a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Putatan (6 km away). In September its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Kota Kinabalu, with 173 mm of rain.
Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu ranks joint 56th of 72 for the warmest September highs and joint 24th of 72 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 72 cities is 29.6°C; Kota Kinabalu is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 173 mm to 264 mm.
The annual picture
September 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Putatan in SeptemberMalaysia · 6 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 173 mm rain
- Keningau in SeptemberMalaysia · 72 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 21.7°C · 122 mm rain
- Labuan in SeptemberMalaysia · 120 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 158 mm rain
- Bandar Seri Begawan in SeptemberBrunei · 174 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.4°C · 196 mm rain
- Sandakan in SeptemberMalaysia · 227 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.4°C · 243 mm rain
- Lahad Datu in SeptemberMalaysia · 271 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.1°C · 168 mm rain
- Marudi in SeptemberMalaysia · 278 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 23.3°C · 221 mm rain
- Tawau in SeptemberMalaysia · 279 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.2°C · 176 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.