Malaysia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Sandakan.

April leads for comfortable weather in Sandakan: typically 31.8°C by day, 24.5°C at night, with 161 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high31.8°C

Typical low24.5°C

Rain in April161 mm

Comfort

April

April · May · March

34climate match

Beach

April

April · May · March

53climate match

Outdoors

April

April · May · January

10climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against April’s 34 — 458 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

529.6° / 24.1°

Feb

1729.8° / 24.1°

Mar

2730.8° / 24.2°

Apr

3431.8° / 24.5°

May

3232.7° / 24.8°

Jun

2532.6° / 24.3°

Jul

1932.5° / 24.1°

Aug

1532.8° / 24°

Sep

1532.4° / 24°

Oct

631.7° / 24.1°

Nov

530.9° / 24.2°

Dec

530.1° / 24.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Sandakan — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 4 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	29.6°C	24.1°C	458 mm	18.2	28.1°C	11 h 49	5	Strong coverage
February	29.8°C	24.1°C	314 mm	12.6	28.2°C	11 h 56	17	Strong coverage
March	30.8°C	24.2°C	222 mm	11.2	28.8°C	12 h 04	27	Strong coverage
April	31.8°C	24.5°C	161 mm	9.1	29.7°C	12 h 14	34	Strong coverage
May	32.7°C	24.8°C	148 mm	9.5	29.9°C	12 h 23	32	Strong coverage
June	32.6°C	24.3°C	193 mm	11.1	29.8°C	12 h 27	25	Strong coverage
July	32.5°C	24.1°C	232 mm	12.7	29.6°C	12 h 26	19	Strong coverage
August	32.8°C	24°C	258 mm	12.9	29.8°C	12 h 18	15	Good coverage
September	32.4°C	24°C	259 mm	13.4	29.9°C	12 h 09	15	Strong coverage
October	31.7°C	24.1°C	323 mm	16.5	29.6°C	11 h 59	6	Good coverage
November	30.9°C	24.2°C	338 mm	18.4	29.3°C	11 h 51	5	Good coverage
December	30.1°C	24.2°C	439 mm	20.1	28.8°C	11 h 47	5	Good coverage

Records at SANDAKAN, 1955–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	34.4°C9 Jan 2011	18.3°C3 Jan 1957	298 mm29 Jan 2011	1094 mm1963 · driest 10 mm in 1973	68
February	34.1°C21 Feb 2013	19.4°C29 Feb 1968	403 mm22 Feb 1984	1079 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 2010	67
March	33.6°C4 Mar 2003	20.0°C1 Mar 1955	301 mm20 Mar 2025	671 mm2011 · driest 4 mm in 1973	68
April	36.1°C22 Apr 2016	21.1°C9 Apr 1956	203 mm10 Apr 2011	546 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1992	68
May	36.5°C30 May 1992	21.1°C27 May 1964	108 mm11 May 1993	367 mm1961 · driest 8 mm in 1968	69
June	35.7°C6 Jun 1981	20.6°C4 Jun 1961	169 mm29 Jun 2017	438 mm1979 · driest 5 mm in 1968	69
July	35.7°C7 Jul 2015	20.2°C12 Jul 1973	121 mm1 Jul 1958	561 mm2006 · driest 10 mm in 1971	67
August	36.0°C28 Aug 1990	19.4°C6 Aug 1961	139 mm2 Aug 1994	489 mm1992 · driest 10 mm in 1973	69
September	35.5°C4 Sep 2004	20.6°C3 Sep 1961	250 mm19 Sep 2006	1075 mm2006 · driest 2 mm in 1974	68
October	35.3°C23 Oct 2024	20.6°C2 Oct 1961	210 mm28 Oct 2006	606 mm1998 · driest 5 mm in 1969	68
November	34.6°C2 Nov 1996	20.0°C30 Nov 1964	175 mm26 Nov 1996	591 mm1979 · driest 20 mm in 1972	68
December	34.2°C4 Dec 2000	20.1°C31 Dec 1996	223 mm14 Dec 1987	857 mm1988 · driest 26 mm in 1972	68

Typical days per month at SANDAKAN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	27	12	9
February	25	14	6
March	27	22	5
April	26	25	4
May	27	26	3
June	26	26	4
July	27	26	5
August	27	26	6
September	26	25	6
October	27	25	8
November	27	22	9
December	27	16	10

How often, not how much — every day in SANDAKAN’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	38%	62%	31%	84%	28.7–30.1°C
February	51%	48%	20%	64%	28.8–30.5°C
March	63%	38%	15%	53%	29.9–31.3°C
April	68%	32%	12%	35%	31.0–32.5°C
May	66%	34%	13%	42%	31.9–33.5°C
June	60%	40%	18%	58%	31.7–33.1°C
July	58%	42%	19%	61%	31.7–32.9°C
August	56%	44%	20%	65%	31.7–33.3°C
September	52%	48%	22%	75%	31.6–32.7°C
October	45%	54%	24%	81%	31.2–32.0°C
November	37%	63%	29%	90%	30.3–31.3°C
December	32%	67%	33%	94%	29.3–30.7°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.

1956Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 49-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1956.2010

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1734052
NOAA station: MY000096491 · SANDAKAN
Station distance: 8.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 5.84°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 4 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 SANDAKAN is what differs

Kinabatangan→Taman Rajawali→Taganak→Lihiman→Great Bakkungan→Boaan→

Or put two places side by side: Sandakan vs Kinabatangan

Best time to visitSandakan.

April

April

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Sandakan.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.