Climate averages 1991–2020

Tawau weather
in March.

A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.6°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 24.3°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 144 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Tawau: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 144 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes March a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lahad Datu (99 km away). In March its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Tawau, with 123 mm of rain.

Among the 72 cities listed in Malaysia, Tawau ranks joint 54th of 72 for the warmest March highs and 14th of 72 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 72 cities is 30.1°C; Tawau is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs stay level at 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 144 mm to 163 mm.

The annual picture

March 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	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, selected	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

March 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.