Malaysia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Putatan.

February leads for comfortable weather in Putatan: typically 31.2°C by day, 23.3°C at night, with 88 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high31.2°C

Typical low23.3°C

Rain in February88 mm

Comfort

February

February · March · January

50climate match

Beach

February

February · March · January

73climate match

Outdoors

February

February · March · January

29climate match

The weakest month is October, scoring 5 against February’s 50 — 402 mm of rain falls.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

3931.3° / 23.3°

Feb

5031.2° / 23.3°

Mar

4732.1° / 23.7°

Apr

3532.8° / 24.3°

May

1732.9° / 24.5°

Jun

932.5° / 24.1°

Jul

632.2° / 23.8°

Aug

1532.2° / 23.8°

Sep

1032° / 23.8°

Oct

531.8° / 23.8°

Nov

1331.7° / 23.7°

Dec

1431.6° / 23.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Putatan — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 21 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.3°C	23.3°C	153 mm	9.7	27.9°C	11 h 49	39	Good coverage
February	31.2°C	23.3°C	88 mm	7	27.3°C	11 h 56	50	Good coverage
March	32.1°C	23.7°C	88 mm	7.2	28.0°C	12 h 04	47	Good coverage
April	32.8°C	24.3°C	131 mm	10	29.4°C	12 h 15	35	Good coverage
May	32.9°C	24.5°C	232 mm	12.7	30.1°C	12 h 23	17	Good coverage
June	32.5°C	24.1°C	302 mm	13.6	30.2°C	12 h 28	9	Good coverage
July	32.2°C	23.8°C	321 mm	15.5	30.0°C	12 h 26	6	Good coverage
August	32.2°C	23.8°C	264 mm	13.9	30.0°C	12 h 19	15	Good coverage
September	32°C	23.8°C	301 mm	14.4	29.8°C	12 h 09	10	Good coverage
October	31.8°C	23.8°C	402 mm	18	29.6°C	11 h 59	5	Good coverage
November	31.7°C	23.7°C	277 mm	16.1	29.3°C	11 h 51	13	Good coverage
December	31.6°C	23.7°C	282 mm	14.5	29.0°C	11 h 47	14	Good coverage

Records at KOTA KINABALU INTL, 1955–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	34.3°C13 Jan 2017	19.4°C20 Jan 1964	191 mm22 Jan 1995	627 mm1963 · driest 1 mm in 2002	46
February	39.2°C28 Feb 1999	18.7°C8 Feb 2019	157 mm2 Feb 2025	325 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1998	47
March	35.7°C24 Mar 1998	18.9°C7 Mar 1955	141 mm19 Mar 1961	288 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1997	49
April	36.0°C26 Apr 2016	21.1°C15 Apr 1958	137 mm30 Apr 1955	284 mm1994 · driest 6 mm in 1992	47
May	36.5°C8 May 2016	22.1°C6 May 1994	182 mm17 May 1996	404 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1979	49
June	36.3°C5 Jun 2015	20.4°C22 Jun 2002	225 mm13 Jun 2006	659 mm2006 · driest 81 mm in 2023	49
July	35.4°C9 Jul 2016	19.5°C8 Jul 2023	290 mm31 Jul 1980	657 mm2005 · driest 18 mm in 2000	49
August	35.1°C2 Aug 2011	20.6°C2 Aug 1959	142 mm28 Aug 2014	534 mm2021 · driest 68 mm in 2004	49
September	35.6°C30 Sep 2009	19.3°C24 Sep 2023	313 mm11 Sep 1992	600 mm2021 · driest 20 mm in 1999	47
October	34.7°C13 Oct 2016	19.7°C28 Oct 2023	180 mm19 Oct 1980	686 mm2001 · driest 79 mm in 2002	47
November	35.3°C1 Nov 2023	20.4°C5 Nov 2023	193 mm20 Nov 2011	507 mm2005 · driest 58 mm in 1992	48
December	34.0°C6 Dec 2002	19.7°C31 Dec 1996	247 mm10 Dec 1963	601 mm1993 · driest 15 mm in 1997	47

Typical days per month at KOTA KINABALU INTL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	23	20	3
February	22	20	2
March	24	23	2
April	23	23	4
May	23	22	5
June	22	21	6
July	24	23	7
August	23	22	6
September	23	22	6
October	23	21	8
November	23	21	6
December	24	22	5

How often, not how much — every day in KOTA KINABALU INTL’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	62%	34%	13%	47%	29.4–31.8°C
February	72%	25%	8%	32%	29.4–31.9°C
March	71%	23%	7%	29%	30.4–32.8°C
April	63%	31%	11%	50%	31.1–33.4°C
May	57%	40%	16%	61%	31.2–33.4°C
June	52%	45%	22%	67%	31.0–33.0°C
July	47%	48%	23%	74%	30.7–32.8°C
August	52%	45%	23%	66%	30.6–32.6°C
September	48%	48%	24%	77%	30.4–32.3°C
October	41%	54%	27%	81%	30.2–32.3°C
November	40%	53%	24%	81%	29.7–32.3°C
December	51%	42%	18%	62%	29.9–32.2°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1733440
NOAA station: MYM00096471 · KOTA KINABALU INTL
Station distance: 1.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 5.93°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 21 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from KOTA KINABALU INTL is what differs

Kota Kinabalu→Donggongon→Petagas→Papar→Kinarut→Inanam→

Or put two places side by side: Putatan vs Kota Kinabalu

Best time to visitPutatan.

February

February

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Putatan.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.