--- title: "Bandau to Kota Kinabalu – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Bandau to Kota Kinabalu is 97 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bandau-to-kota-kinabalu" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bandau-to-kota-kinabalu.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Bandau to Kota Kinabalu [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bandau&to=Kota+Kinabalu) [Kota Kinabalu to Bandau](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kota-kinabalu-to-bandau) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 97 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Fri 30 Oct\ ## 2 ways to travel 97 km apart. Times are the timetables for Fri 30 Oct, planned from 08:00; every price says whether it is live, the operator's fare or our estimate. We add nothing to any fare. best RM170 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 2h 4m RM24–32 Estimated 122 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bandau&to=Kota+Kinabalu) - [**Taxi** 2h 4m RM160–240 Estimated one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bandau&to=Kota+Kinabalu) Data: [Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors, routed by OSRM](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) · [Places from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · [All credits and licences](https://www.mixroutes.com/credits) ## Before you go Borders, permits, official travel advice and disaster alerts for the places on this route, as their sources publish them. Entry rules are shown for a passport from Malaysia; the planner lets you pick yours. - **Parts of Malaysia are advised against, not on this route** [UK](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/malaysia/warnings-and-insurance) Travel advice: UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3.0). ## Departures today Timetable data via Transitous and the operators' own GTFS feeds. Live delays arrive when an operator publishes a real-time feed. ## Questions people ask How long does it take to get from Bandau to Kota Kinabalu? The fastest way is by car: about 2h 4m door to door. The straight-line distance is 97 km. What is the cheapest way from Bandau to Kota Kinabalu? Drive is the cheapest, from RM24. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Kota Kinabalu from Bandau by road? About 122 km, roughly 2h 4m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around RM24–32; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Kota Kinabalu State capital city and district capital in Sabah, Malaysia Kota Kinabalu, colloquially referred to as KK, is the state capital of Sabah, Malaysia. It is also the capital of the Kota Kinabalu District as well as the West Coast Division of Sabah. The city is located on the northwest coast of Borneo facing the South China Sea. The Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park lies to its west and Mount Kinabalu, which gave the city its name, is located to its east. Kota Kinabalu has a population of 452,058 according to the 2010 census; when the adjacent Penampang and Tuaran districts are included, the metro area has a combined population of 628,725. The 2020 Census revealed an increase in the municipal population to 500,421, while the wider area including the Penampang and Putatan districts had a population of 731,406. [The Kota Kinabalu guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/kota-kinabalu) Worth your time - City Park A small park and the only park in the city center opposite the court complex. - Chinatown Located in the city centre surrounding Gaya Street and Pantai (Beach) Street. - Double Six Monument A memorial site on the location of the 1976 plane crash which killed the state chief minister Tun Fuad Stephens and other state cabinet members. - Sabah State Museum A good place to understand the history of Kota Kinabalu and Sabah. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Kota Kinabalu Compare prices on Hotels70](https://www.hotels70.com) ## More routes - [Kochi to Bengaluru](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-bengaluru) - [Kochi to Chennai](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-chennai) - [Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-thiruvananthapuram) - [Kochi to Munnar](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-munnar) - [Kochi to Alappuzha](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-alappuzha) - [Kochi to Kozhikode](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-kozhikode) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bandau-to-kota-kinabalu, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt