Climate averages 1991–2020

Labuan weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 131 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Labuan: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 131 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 51 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bandar Seri Begawan (55 km away). In January its highs average 28.7°C, about as warm as Labuan, with 162 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Labuan ranks joint 52nd of 72 for the warmest January highs and 11th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Labuan is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 131 mm to 82 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Labuan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Labuan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.4°C24.7°C	24.7°C	131	16.6	11.912 h
February	28.6°C24.7°C	24.7°C	82	10.9	12.012 h
March	29.4°C25.1°C	25.1°C	54	12.1	12.112 h
April	29.9°C25.5°C	25.5°C	91	15.7	12.212 h
May	29.9°C25.8°C	25.8°C	114	18.4	12.412 h
June	29.6°C25.5°C	25.5°C	152	17.1	12.412 h
July	29.5°C25.3°C	25.3°C	144	17.8	12.412 h
August	29.6°C25.4°C	25.4°C	140	17.5	12.312 h
September	29.3°C25.2°C	25.2°C	158	19.8	12.212 h
October	28.7°C24.8°C	24.8°C	201	24.7	12.012 h
November	28.6°C24.8°C	24.8°C	190	24.5	11.912 h
December	28.5°C24.8°C	24.8°C	187	22.6	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Labuan

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Labuan) is explained once on the Labuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.