Climate averages 1991–2020

Tawau weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 156 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Tawau: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 24.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 156 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 54 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lahad Datu (99 km away). In January its highs average 28.2°C, 0.7°C cooler than Tawau, with 160 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Tawau ranks joint 34th of 72 for the warmest January highs and 19th of 72 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 72 cities is 28.9°C; Tawau is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 156 mm to 113 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

Tawau climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tawau, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.9°C24.1°C	24.1°C	156	21.5	11.912 h
February	29.3°C24.2°C	24.2°C	113	16.7	12.012 h
March	29.6°C24.3°C	24.3°C	144	21.9	12.112 h
April	29.6°C24.4°C	24.4°C	163	25.4	12.212 h
May	29.3°C24.5°C	24.5°C	216	29.5	12.312 h
June	28.9°C24.4°C	24.4°C	212	28.1	12.412 h
July	28.7°C24.1°C	24.1°C	200	28.1	12.312 h
August	28.9°C24.2°C	24.2°C	186	27.9	12.312 h
September	29.0°C24.2°C	24.2°C	176	26.6	12.112 h
October	29.0°C24.1°C	24.1°C	214	28.7	12.012 h
November	28.9°C24.1°C	24.1°C	192	27.9	11.912 h
December	28.9°C24.2°C	24.2°C	190	26.4	11.912 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 Tawau

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 Tawau) is explained once on the Tawau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.