Malaysia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Tawau.

February leads for comfortable weather in Tawau: typically 31.3°C by day, 22.9°C at night, with 121 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high31.3°C

Typical low22.9°C

Rain in February121 mm

Comfort

February

February · March · January

42climate match

Beach

February

February · March · January

64climate match

Outdoors

February

February · March · January

19climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 22 against February’s 42 — 253 mm of rain falls, and days average 31.2°C, 7° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

3931.1° / 22.9°

Feb

4231.3° / 22.9°

Mar

4031.7° / 23.1°

Apr

3531.8° / 23.5°

May

2931.7° / 23.7°

Jun

2731.3° / 23.3°

Jul

2931.1° / 23.1°

Aug

2231.2° / 23.1°

Sep

3831.5° / 23.1°

Oct

3031.6° / 23.2°

Nov

3031.7° / 23.3°

Dec

2331.3° / 23.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Tawau — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 29 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31.1°C	22.9°C	140 mm	12.5	28.5°C	11 h 54	39	Good coverage
February	31.3°C	22.9°C	121 mm	11	28.4°C	11 h 59	42	Good coverage
March	31.7°C	23.1°C	128 mm	10.8	28.9°C	12 h 05	40	Good coverage
April	31.8°C	23.5°C	162 mm	10.2	29.6°C	12 h 12	35	Good coverage
May	31.7°C	23.7°C	185 mm	12.9	29.8°C	12 h 19	29	Strong coverage
June	31.3°C	23.3°C	209 mm	13.1	29.6°C	12 h 22	27	Strong coverage
July	31.1°C	23.1°C	201 mm	14.3	29.3°C	12 h 21	29	Strong coverage
August	31.2°C	23.1°C	253 mm	13.5	29.2°C	12 h 15	22	Strong coverage
September	31.5°C	23.1°C	146 mm	11.4	29.4°C	12 h 08	38	Good coverage
October	31.6°C	23.2°C	183 mm	13.7	29.4°C	12 h 01	30	Good coverage
November	31.7°C	23.3°C	177 mm	13.8	29.4°C	11 h 55	30	Good coverage
December	31.3°C	23.2°C	223 mm	16	28.9°C	11 h 53	23	Good coverage

Records at TAWAU, 1979–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	38.0°C22 Jan 1980	18.1°C30 Jan 1993	92 mm6 Jan 2023	388 mm2023 · driest 30 mm in 1994	35
February	34.7°C26 Feb 2016	18.6°C7 Feb 2002	100 mm6 Feb 2011	320 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2018	33
March	35.5°C16 Mar 2010	20.2°C5 Mar 1995	77 mm26 Mar 2009	276 mm2011 · driest 12 mm in 2020	34
April	35.2°C3 Apr 2010	20.8°C5 Apr 1993	362 mm12 Apr 1995	514 mm1995 · driest 21 mm in 2020	33
May	34.4°C25 May 2024	21.0°C29 May 2004	138 mm3 May 2019	460 mm2006 · driest 12 mm in 2014	35
June	33.7°C4 Jun 2002	20.7°C14 Jun 2004	363 mm20 Jun 1992	509 mm1992 · driest 3 mm in 1997	35
July	34.2°C28 Jul 2025	20.8°C18 Jul 1999	190 mm9 Jul 2007	451 mm2007 · driest 57 mm in 1992	36
August	35.6°C19 Aug 1997	21.0°C13 Aug 1993	146 mm5 Aug 2018	416 mm2013 · driest 33 mm in 2002	36
September	34.5°C18 Sep 1998	20.9°C14 Sep 2004	250 mm29 Sep 1979	370 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 1999	34
October	34.4°C11 Oct 2015	19.7°C1 Oct 1991	77 mm5 Oct 1998	362 mm1998 · driest 10 mm in 1997	35
November	34.7°C28 Nov 1991	21.3°C15 Nov 1992	131 mm10 Nov 1993	304 mm2012 · driest 51 mm in 1994	34
December	37.8°C16 Dec 1992	20.2°C29 Dec 1996	370 mm17 Dec 1979	468 mm1979 · driest 7 mm in 2013	34

Typical days per month at TAWAU, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	25	21	4
February	24	20	3
March	26	23	3
April	26	25	4
May	25	24	5
June	25	22	5
July	26	23	5
August	26	23	5
September	25	23	3
October	26	24	5
November	25	24	4
December	26	23	5

How often, not how much — every day in TAWAU’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	61%	42%	16%	60%	30.4–32.1°C
February	65%	40%	14%	55%	30.2–32.4°C
March	64%	37%	13%	56%	30.9–32.7°C
April	66%	37%	15%	60%	31.1–32.6°C
May	61%	42%	18%	58%	31.1–32.3°C
June	56%	45%	19%	68%	30.5–32.0°C
July	55%	46%	20%	63%	30.4–31.5°C
August	59%	42%	20%	61%	30.6–31.9°C
September	65%	40%	16%	56%	31.0–32.0°C
October	58%	44%	20%	68%	31.0–32.3°C
November	54%	47%	18%	76%	31.2–32.1°C
December	51%	50%	20%	70%	30.5–32.0°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 1734199
NOAA station: MYM00096481 · TAWAU
Station distance: 26.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 4.24°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 29 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 TAWAU is what differs

Kampung Kunak→Kampong Indarasabak→Mantandak→Kampung Gading Gading→Kampung Sapang→Kampung Atas→

Or put two places side by side: Tawau vs Kampung Kunak

Best time to visitTawau.

February

February

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Tawau.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.