Flights to Kota Kinabalu

54 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.

54 places connect to Kota Kinabalu by Flights, across 11 countries, run by 21 operators. The cheapest arrival costs €31.41. Origins run from 174 km away to 4,091 km, with a median of 1,642 km.

Checked 3 October 2026Priced for 3 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Fares

Arriving in Kota Kinabalu

Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Kota Kinabalu, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu flight€31.413h 53m227 km
Bandar Seri Begawan to Kota Kinabalu flight€31.413h 49m174 km
Tawau to Kota Kinabalu flight€34.953h 57m279 km
Miri to Kota Kinabalu flight€48.523h 59m289 km
Bintulu to Kota Kinabalu flight€71.534h 11m459 km
Kuching to Kota Kinabalu flight€83.334h 38m805 km
Sibu to Kota Kinabalu flight€94.544h 24m624 km
Manila to Kota Kinabalu flight€138.795h 14m1,099 km
Singapore to Kota Kinabalu flight€144.105h 31m1,453 km
Johor Bahru to Kota Kinabalu flight€151.775h 39m1,455 km
Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu flight€158.265h 41m1,625 km
Denpasar to Kota Kinabalu flight€169.475h 46m1,629 km
Kampung Baru Subang to Kota Kinabalu flight€170.655h 46m1,642 km
Hong Kong to Kota Kinabalu flight€177.145h 56m1,824 km
George Town to Kota Kinabalu flight€181.865h 51m1,742 km
Guangzhou to Kota Kinabalu flight€193.666h 8m1,930 km
Kota Bharu to Kota Kinabalu flight€198.975h 41m1,529 km
Jakarta to Kota Kinabalu flight€203.106h 4m1,699 km
Taipa to Kota Kinabalu flight€221.986h 9m1,819 km
Shenzhen to Kota Kinabalu flight€262.696h 12m1,855 km
Taipei to Kota Kinabalu flight€296.916h 43m2,200 km
Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu flight€301.637h 51m2,863 km
Seoul to Kota Kinabalu flight€351.198h 20m3,682 km
Hangzhou to Kota Kinabalu flight€352.377h 12m2,738 km
Osaka to Kota Kinabalu flight€364.768h 39m3,765 km
Chengdu to Kota Kinabalu flight€376.567h 51m3,018 km
Busan to Kota Kinabalu flight€440.288h 8m3,500 km
Daegu to Kota Kinabalu flight€443.238h 15m3,562 km
Tokyo to Kota Kinabalu flight€482.179h 32m4,091 km
  • 54Places you can arrive from
  • 54Places you can leave for
  • 11Countries
  • 21Operators

The journey ends at Putatan railway station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Kota Kinabalu for the night the flight gets in

Filter by neighbourhood and by price per night, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a taxi.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Flights, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km24%Bandar Seri Begawan, 174 km
200 to 600 km815%Sandakan, 227 km
600 to 1,500 km1019%Sibu, 624 km
Over 1,500 km3463%Kota Bharu, 1529 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Countries with at least one route into Kota Kinabalu that we sell.

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Malaysia2241%
China1019%
Indonesia47%
South Korea47%
Japan36%
Brunei24%
Hong Kong SAR China24%
Philippines24%
Singapore24%
Taiwan24%
Macao SAR China12%
Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Kota Kinabalu

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Kota Kinabalu

Air
  • BKI
Leaving

Leaving Kota Kinabalu

Common questions about Flights to Kota Kinabalu

Where can I travel to Kota Kinabalu by Flights from?

54 places connect to Kota Kinabalu by Flights on our network, across 11 countries. The nearest is 174 km away in a straight line and the furthest 4,091 km. Every one of them is a route we actually sell rather than a connection somebody could construct.

How much does the Flights to Kota Kinabalu cost?

The cheapest Flights fare into Kota Kinabalu is €31.41 for one passenger, across 54 origins over the next three weeks. The median origin is 1,642 km away in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against.

How long does the Flights to Kota Kinabalu take?

The fastest Flights journey into Kota Kinabalu is 3h 49m door to door. The median origin sits 1,642 km away in a straight line, so most journeys on this list take considerably longer than the fastest one quoted here.

Which operators run the Flights to Kota Kinabalu?

21 operators run Flights services into Kota Kinabalu on our network: Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, Asiana Airlines, Batik Air Malaysia. Each has its own fares and its own conditions, and every one of them is a real carrier from the published operator catalogue rather than a name we generated.

Which terminal does the Flights to Kota Kinabalu use?

Flights services into Kota Kinabalu use 1 named terminals, among them BKI. The terminal a given service uses is shown on the route page for that journey and again on the ticket, because a city with several is a city where the wrong one costs an hour.

Where these numbers come from

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door

Other ways to reach Kota Kinabalu

BKI is not in Kota Kinabalu, and the road in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

Getting from BKI into Kota Kinabalu

Settled in advance, so the ride into Kota Kinabalu costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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