Current time in Kota Kinabalu

Local time in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, runs on the Asia/Kuching time zone (UTC+8). The clock and dates at the top of this page are computed live for that zone, so they stay correct for Kota Kinabalu wherever in the world you happen to be reading from. Where daylight saving time applies, the offset can move by an hour between summer and winter.

Sitting at a latitude of about 6.0° in the northern hemisphere, Kota Kinabalu's day length stays remarkably steady all year, with only small differences between summer and winter. That is why its sunrise, sunset and day-length figures change from month to month, and why prayer times here follow the position of the sun rather than a fixed clock.

The prayer times shown for Kota Kinabalu are calculated using the Muslim World League. The five daily prayers track the sun, so each one drifts a little earlier or later as the seasons turn. For the full picture you can open the monthly timetable, the live prayer clock, or the Qibla direction for Kota Kinabalu from the tools on this site.