Kos vs Malaysia

Pool deck with loungers overlooking a bay, white modern building, and dining area at Mitsis Selection Blue Domes under blue sky.

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

Kos 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

Kos compared with Malaysia
Kos	Measure	Malaysia
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
2 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	1
★ 4.8	Average guest rating	–
$177–$857/night pp	Nightly rates	–
0 of 2	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 windiest	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

Kos

Malaysia

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Kos and Malaysia
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Kos · high °F	59	59	63	68	76	84	88	88	83	76	68	61
Malaysia · high °F	90	91	91	91	89	88	88	88	87	87	87	88
Kos · rain (in)	5.0	3.4	2.4	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.1	3.6	5.8
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