Hlaingthaya climate

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Hlaingthaya is warmest in April, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. August is the wettest month (494 mm) and February the driest (2.3 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Hlaingthaya averages 2,446 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Myanmar · population 687,867 · 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 18 °C
Driest month February 2 mm
Wettest month August 494 mm
Least cloud February 19 % cloud
Hottest on record May 42 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectHlaingthaya through the year

Hlaingthaya has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 37 °C in April, a swing of 6.4 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 239 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 494 mm against 2 mm in February — 219 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.8 °C	5 mm	26 %
February	33.4 °C	2 mm	19 %
March	36.0 °C	12 mm	22 %
April	37.3 °C	38 mm	33 %
May	33.3 °C	281 mm	74 %
June	29.8 °C	476 mm	95 %
July	29.2 °C	494 mm	96 %
August	29.1 °C	494 mm	96 %
September	29.6 °C	385 mm	91 %
October	30.4 °C	210 mm	69 %
November	30.7 °C	44 mm	39 %
December	30.2 °C	5 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	30.8 °C	18.2 °C	24.3 °C	35.0 °C	13.2 °C	31	22
February	33.4 °C	19.4 °C	26.3 °C	38.4 °C	13.3 °C	28	27
March	36.0 °C	22.0 °C	28.8 °C	39.5 °C	16.4 °C	31	31
April	37.3 °C	25.2 °C	30.8 °C	41.1 °C	20.9 °C	30	30
May	33.3 °C	25.7 °C	28.8 °C	41.9 °C	23.4 °C	31	24
June	29.8 °C	24.9 °C	26.6 °C	33.9 °C	23.3 °C	30	13
July	29.2 °C	24.5 °C	26.1 °C	33.3 °C	23.3 °C	31	9
August	29.1 °C	24.4 °C	26.0 °C	32.8 °C	23.0 °C	31	9
September	29.6 °C	24.3 °C	26.3 °C	32.8 °C	22.8 °C	30	13
October	30.4 °C	24.1 °C	26.8 °C	33.2 °C	20.1 °C	31	20
November	30.7 °C	22.2 °C	26.2 °C	33.8 °C	14.7 °C	30	23
December	30.2 °C	19.5 °C	24.7 °C	33.5 °C	12.1 °C	31	18

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	11 h/day	26 %	64 %	9.7 km/h
February	2 mm	0	12 h/day	19 %	57 %	11 km/h
March	12 mm	2	12 h/day	22 %	57 %	13 km/h
April	38 mm	5	13 h/day	33 %	60 %	14 km/h
May	281 mm	23	13 h/day	74 %	77 %	14 km/h
June	476 mm	30	13 h/day	95 %	89 %	15 km/h
July	494 mm	31	13 h/day	96 %	90 %	15 km/h
August	494 mm	31	13 h/day	96 %	91 %	14 km/h
September	385 mm	29	12 h/day	91 %	89 %	12 km/h
October	210 mm	22	12 h/day	69 %	86 %	10 km/h
November	44 mm	5	11 h/day	39 %	77 %	10 km/h
December	5 mm	1	11 h/day	31 %	68 %	10 km/h

How Hlaingthaya 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
Hlaingthaya	37 °C	18 °C	2,446 mm	365
Insein · Myanmar	37 °C	18 °C	2,231 mm	365
Yangon · Myanmar	37 °C	18 °C	2,314 mm	365
Bago · Myanmar	37 °C	17 °C	2,567 mm	364

Where Hlaingthaya ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in February	13th of 50	33 °C
The warmest places in Asia in March	23rd of 50	36 °C
The warmest places in Asia in December	28th of 50	30 °C
The warmest places in Asia in January	33rd of 50	31 °C
The warmest places in Asia in November	46th of 50	31 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Hlaingthaya’s climate

When is the best time to visit Hlaingthaya?

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 Hlaingthaya get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 239 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 18 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Hlaingthaya?

August, averaging 494 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is February with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,446 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 Hlaingthaya 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: 16.850°, 96.067° (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.