Costa del Sol vs Malaysia

Ikos Andalusia's outdoor bar terrace features woven pendant lamps, bar seating, and tall palm trees with pink flowering plants in foreground.

Workers unload cardboard boxes and supplies from an open truck bed at Club Med Borneo.

Costa del Sol and Malaysia, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Costa del Sol compared with Malaysia
Costa del Sol	Measure	Malaysia
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
6 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	1
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	–
$67–$526/night pp	Nightly rates	–
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 1
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–March	Rainy season	April–October, wettest September–October
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	December–March

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Costa del Sol

Malaysia

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Malaysia
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Costa del Sol · high °F	63	64	67	70	75	81	86	86	82	75	68	64
Malaysia · high °F	90	91	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Costa del Sol · rain (in)	2.7	2.3	1.9	1.6	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.9	2.2	3.7	3.9
Malaysia · rain (in)	1.4	2.0	4.1	7.4	9.1	7.0	7.8	8.5	12.8	13.5	9.2	3.5