Beaufort
Worth seeing in and around Beaufort
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Starcevich memorial monument
The Starcevich Monument or Beaufort Australian Monument is a monument in the town of Beaufort in Sabah, Malaysia dedicated to Tom Starcevich from the 9th Division Army of Australia during the reconquest of the town by the Allied forces on 28 June 1945.
500 m · monument in Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beaufort
- Airports
- Kota Kinabalu (BKI), 73 km · Brunei (BWN), 101 km
- Stations
- Beaufort railway station, Sabah, 400 m
- Kota Kinabalu → Beaufort79 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · RM18–24
- Bandar Seri Begawan → Beaufort103 km · quickest by road, 3h · $13–18
- Kuching → Beaufort734 km · quickest by air, 7h 42m · RM430–670
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Beaufort
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Beaufort. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are heading to Kuala Penyu (boats to the Pulau Tiga National Park) and Menumbok (for the vehicular ferry to Labuan), the turnoff is just outside Beaufort on the road to Kota Kinabalu.
- Get inMinivans are the best bet for connections between Beaufort and neighbouring towns and even as far as Kota Kinabalu and Lawas in Sarawak.
- Get inTo/From Kota Kinabalu: Frequent minivans operate between Beaufort and Kota Kinabalu, serving Papar, Kimanis and Bongawan along the way.
- Get inTo/From Lawas: Again, frequent minivans run between Beaufort and Lawas in the morning.
From Wikivoyage: Beaufort (Sabah), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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If you know how people move in Beaufort – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.