Kota Kinabalu. Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Kota Kinabalu

Surf town · Malaysia

Score a trip to Kota Kinabalu

Surf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 348 places

Ad Links marked Ad may pay us if you book. You pay the same, and they never change a score. How we earn

348 places to stay within 2 km, 1 of them campsites.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 348 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 1 surf spot

Surf · this week

Pulau Manukan · about 15 min by car
14 out of 100

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Kota Kinabalu.

Places to eat

6 near Kota Kinabalu

Places to eat near Kota Kinabalu

Suang Tain Seafood RestaurantSeafood · 0.1 km from the centre
Uncle BOB Fried ChickenChicken · 0.1 km from the centre
雙天海鮮樓Seafood · 0.1 km from the centre
5 Star Hainanese Chicken Rice & BBQ PorkChinese · 0.2 km from the centre
ChubsBar and grill · 0.2 km from the centre
Der Master Restaurant, Delicatessen Grocer & BarGerman · 0.2 km from the centre

Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation. Credits

Map

the town and every place near it

Kota Kinabalu on Google Maps

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for experts: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 30 km from Kota Kinabalu.

The map needs JavaScript. Every place on it is listed on this page, and each place's page links to Google Maps.

One finger scrolls the page; two fingers move the map. Pins are our own positions. Map OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Photos of Kota Kinabalu

KotaKinabalu Sabah Centre-Point-Mall-01 — Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Jalan Dua Puluh, Kota Kinabalu 20260504 130004 — Photo: Wiki Farazi, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

Colonel Sanders at a KFC in Kota Kinabalu — Photo: Aliceinthealice, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Kota Kinabalu

where it is, what is near

Kota Kinabalu is a town in Sabah, Malaysia.

From Kota Kinabalu you can reach 1 surf spot.

The nearest is Pulau Manukan, a surf spot 8 km from the centre.

Overture lists 348 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 1 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is Kota Kinabalu International Airport (BKI), 6 km away.

In Sabah · Malaysia

348 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 1 of them campsites (Overture places)
Nearest airports: Kota Kinabalu International Airport (BKI), 6 km, Labuan Airport (LBU), 118 km, Brunei International Airport (BWN), 171 km

Forecast updated Mon 2 Nov, 21:16 UTC. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).