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Route · MY

Sandakan to Tawau

1 operator run this water, from 43 min.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Malaysia Airlines SDK → TWU 176 km non-stop AT7 in the air 2 h 13 est. rate not held 244 km/h average

Other ways to reach Tawau

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Tawau without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Kota Kinabalu – Tawau 52 min AirAsia
Johor Bahru – Tawau 2 h 32 AirAsia
Sepang – Tawau 2 h 47 AirAsia

And other ways to reach Sandakan

Sepang – Sandakan 2 h 48 AirAsia

Where else these quays go

Also from Sandakan

Kota Kinabalu · Sepang

Also from Tawau

Johor Bahru · Kota Kinabalu · Sepang

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Sandakan–Tawau crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.