Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Atkinson Clock Tower is a 15-metre wooden clock tower on Signal Hill Road in Kota Kinabalu, completed in 1905 in memory of Francis George Atkinson, the first district officer of Jesselton, who died of malaria at 28. Its two-faced clock was made by William Potts and Sons of Leeds, and it is the oldest standing structure in the city.
The Sabah Museum is the state museum of Sabah, set on 17 hectares at Bukit Istana Lama in Kota Kinabalu. Founded in 1965 in a shophouse on Gaya Street, it moved to this complex in 1984; besides the main building, whose galleries have been closed to visitors since September 2024, it has an Islamic civilisation museum, a locomotive gallery and a heritage village.
Sabah State Mosque is the state mosque of Sabah, standing at the Sembulan roundabout on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kota Kinabalu. Built from 1970 to 1975 to a design led by Baharuddin Abu Kassim of Architects Team 3, it was opened on 28 June 1977, holds 5,000 worshippers and is an active place of prayer.
Kota Kinabalu City Mosque, Masjid Bandaraya, stands on the shore of Likas Bay and is partly surrounded by an artificial lagoon, which gives it the nickname 'the Floating Mosque'. Opened in 2000 with room for 12,000 worshippers, it has a blue and gold dome and a design based on the Prophet's Mosque in Medina; non-Muslims may visit outside prayer times in modest dress.
Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park is a marine park of five islands — Gaya, Sapi, Manukan, Mamutik and Sulug — between 3 and 8 km off Kota Kinabalu, gazetted in 1974 and named after Malaysia's first prime minister. Boats from Jesselton Point in the city take visitors to coral reefs, beaches and forest trails; two-thirds of its 49 square kilometres are sea.
Lok Kawi Wildlife Park is a zoo and botanical park of about 113 hectares near Lok Kawi in Putatan district, some 15 km south of Kota Kinabalu, opened by the Sabah Wildlife Department on 17 February 2007. It keeps Bornean pygmy elephants, proboscis monkeys, orangutans, gibbons, tigers and sun bears, and has a reptile house, aviaries and a 1.4 km botanical trail.
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