What time is it in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
This is a live clock for Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, showing local time in the Asia/Kuching zone (+8).
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
UTC+8 · Asia/Kuching
Local time in Kota Kinabalu
UTC+8 · no daylight saving time
Kota Kinabalu keeps Asia/Kuching clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:02 AM Solar noon 12:00 PM Sunset 5:58 PM Daylight 11 h 56 min Night 12 h 04 min Civil twilight 5:41 AM – 6:20 PM
Weather in Kota Kinabalu right now
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Kota Kinabalu and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 88000
- 88100
- 88200
- 88300
- 88400
- 88450
- 88460
- 88500
- 88502
- 88504
- 88505
- 88506
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Sabah
- Sandakan 439 050
- Tawau 372 615
- Lahad Datu 105 622
- Putatan 78 340
- Donggongon 78 086
- Keningau 77 650
Nearby places
- Kampung Putaton — 10.4 km
- Kampung Novunsu — 11.1 km
- Lungab — 11.4 km
- Kampung Nambazan — 11.7 km
- Kampung Kapazan Mahandoi — 11.8 km
- Kampung Trawi — 11.9 km
Local time details for Kota Kinabalu
Sunrise time for Kota Kinabalu today is 6:02 AM; sunset time is 5:58 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 56 min.
Kampung Putaton and Kampung Novunsu lie near Kota Kinabalu and keep identical time.
Kota Kinabalu is covered by 12 postal codes.
Kota Kinabalu keeps the Asia/Kuching zone, which is UTC+8. Whether summer time is observed: No.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Kota Kinabalu follow?
- Kota Kinabalu follows Asia/Kuching, with an offset of +8.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Kota Kinabalu?
- Daylight saving time in Kota Kinabalu: No.
- When does light leave Kota Kinabalu?
- Light leaves at 5:58 PM.