Kota Kinabalu Weather in December

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Kota Kinabalu, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 27°C on December 1 to 27°C on December 31, and lows from 23°C to 22°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 279 mm over about 25 wet days.

December day by day

The normal high and low for each date, and the record, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Record high
Record low

December at a glance

Average high: 27°C
Average low: 23°C
Precipitation: 279 mm
Record high: 34°CDec 6, 2002
Record low: 20°CDec 31, 1996
Daylight: 11 h 49 min to 11 h 47 min
Cloud cover: 82%
Humidity: 87%
Dew point: 22°C
Wind: 7.9 km/h

Every day of the month

A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

Date	Normal high	Normal low	Record high	Record low	Chance wet
Dec 1	27°C	23°C	34°C 2006	21°C 1964	80%
Dec 2	27°C	23°C	34°C 2011	22°C 1956	80%
Dec 3	27°C	23°C	33°C 2006	22°C 1958	80%
Dec 4	27°C	23°C	34°C 2016	22°C 1960	80%
Dec 5	27°C	23°C	34°C 2002	22°C 1960	80%
Dec 6	27°C	23°C	34°C 2002	22°C 1958	80%
Dec 7	27°C	23°C	33°C 2009	22°C 2004	79%
Dec 8	27°C	23°C	33°C 2006	22°C 1979	79%
Dec 9	27°C	23°C	34°C 2016	22°C 1991	79%
Dec 10	27°C	23°C	33°C 2000	22°C 1980	78%
Dec 11	27°C	23°C	33°C 1997	22°C 1958	78%
Dec 12	27°C	23°C	34°C 2016	23°C 1991	77%
Dec 13	27°C	23°C	33°C 2012	22°C 2019	78%
Dec 14	27°C	23°C	33°C 2000	22°C 1956	79%
Dec 15	27°C	23°C	33°C 1997	22°C 1961	78%
Dec 16	27°C	23°C	33°C 2002	22°C 1964	77%
Dec 17	27°C	23°C	34°C 2016	22°C 1959	76%
Dec 18	27°C	23°C	34°C 2002	22°C 1960	78%
Dec 19	27°C	23°C	34°C 2002	21°C 1981	77%
Dec 20	27°C	23°C	34°C 2011	22°C 1994	78%
Dec 21	27°C	23°C	33°C 2002	22°C 1980	77%
Dec 22	27°C	23°C	33°C 2006	22°C 1958	76%
Dec 23	27°C	23°C	34°C 2002	22°C 1959	76%
Dec 24	27°C	22°C	33°C 2006	22°C 1962	75%
Dec 25	27°C	22°C	33°C 2015	22°C 1956	74%
Dec 26	27°C	22°C	33°C 2021	22°C 1956	72%
Dec 27	27°C	22°C	33°C 2009	22°C 2022	71%
Dec 28	27°C	22°C	32°C 1997	22°C 1979	69%
Dec 29	27°C	22°C	33°C 2011	22°C 1964	67%
Dec 30	27°C	22°C	33°C 2012	20°C 1996	67%
Dec 31	27°C	22°C	33°C 1979	20°C 1996	67%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+8).

December 1: sunrise 6:10 AM, sunset 5:59 PM
December 31: sunrise 6:25 AM, sunset 6:12 PM

Every day of December: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station MYM00096471, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.