Bago climate

Name: Bago
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Bago is warmest in April, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 17 °C. July is the wettest month (553 mm) and February the driest (2.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bago averages 2,567 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Myanmar · population 244,376 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month April 37 °C
Coldest month January 17 °C
Driest month February 3 mm
Wettest month July 553 mm
Least cloud February 19 % cloud
Hottest on record May 43 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectBago through the year

Bago has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 37 °C in April, a swing of 7.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 228 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 553 mm against 3 mm in February — 210 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.6 °C	5 mm	26 %
February	33.2 °C	3 mm	19 %
March	36.0 °C	10 mm	21 %
April	37.4 °C	44 mm	32 %
May	33.1 °C	291 mm	73 %
June	29.5 °C	520 mm	95 %
July	28.9 °C	553 mm	96 %
August	28.8 °C	550 mm	96 %
September	29.5 °C	378 mm	90 %
October	30.3 °C	173 mm	68 %
November	30.8 °C	36 mm	39 %
December	30.1 °C	6 mm	31 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.6 °C	17.4 °C	23.7 °C	34.4 °C	12.7 °C	31	20
February	33.2 °C	18.6 °C	25.8 °C	38.1 °C	12.5 °C	28	27
March	36.0 °C	21.6 °C	28.7 °C	40.1 °C	15.5 °C	31	31
April	37.4 °C	25.1 °C	30.9 °C	41.4 °C	20.7 °C	30	30
May	33.1 °C	25.4 °C	28.6 °C	42.6 °C	23.1 °C	31	24
June	29.5 °C	24.4 °C	26.2 °C	34.7 °C	22.3 °C	30	11
July	28.9 °C	24.1 °C	25.7 °C	33.0 °C	22.7 °C	31	8
August	28.8 °C	23.9 °C	25.6 °C	33.2 °C	22.7 °C	31	7
September	29.5 °C	23.9 °C	26.0 °C	33.3 °C	21.2 °C	30	12
October	30.3 °C	23.7 °C	26.6 °C	33.8 °C	19.8 °C	31	20
November	30.8 °C	21.7 °C	25.9 °C	34.2 °C	14.2 °C	30	22
December	30.1 °C	18.7 °C	24.2 °C	33.6 °C	11.6 °C	31	17

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	11 h/day	26 %	66 %	8.9 km/h
February	3 mm	0	12 h/day	19 %	58 %	10.0 km/h
March	10 mm	2	12 h/day	21 %	57 %	13 km/h
April	44 mm	5	13 h/day	32 %	59 %	14 km/h
May	291 mm	22	13 h/day	73 %	78 %	13 km/h
June	520 mm	30	13 h/day	95 %	91 %	13 km/h
July	553 mm	31	13 h/day	96 %	92 %	13 km/h
August	550 mm	31	13 h/day	96 %	92 %	13 km/h
September	378 mm	29	12 h/day	90 %	91 %	11 km/h
October	173 mm	19	12 h/day	68 %	88 %	9.0 km/h
November	36 mm	4	11 h/day	39 %	79 %	8.5 km/h
December	6 mm	1	11 h/day	31 %	70 %	9.1 km/h

How Bago compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Bago	37 °C	17 °C	2,567 mm	364
Insein · Myanmar	37 °C	18 °C	2,231 mm	365
Yangon · Myanmar	37 °C	18 °C	2,314 mm	365
Hlaingthaya · Myanmar	37 °C	18 °C	2,446 mm	365

Where Bago ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in March	20th of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in Asia in February	21st of 50	33 °C
The warmest places in Asia in December	32nd of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in Asia in January	41st of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in Asia in November	43rd of 50	31 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Bago.

QuestionsCommon questions about Bago’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bago?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, August, December sit closest to 20 °C on average, April is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bago get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 228 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bago?

July, averaging 553 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is February with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,567 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Bago rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 17.335°, 96.481° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.