Kyaukpyu climate

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Kyaukpyu is warmest in April, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 20 °C. July is the wettest month (840 mm) and February the driest (3.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kyaukpyu averages 3,335 mm of rain and 352 days above 25 °C.

Myanmar · population 180,000 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month January 20 °C
Driest month February 3 mm
Wettest month July 840 mm
Least cloud February 20 % cloud
Hottest on record March 35 °C
Coldest on record January 15 °C
Warmest sea May 30 °C

What to expectKyaukpyu through the year

Kyaukpyu has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 26 °C in January to 31 °C in April, a swing of 5.5 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 352 days a year reach 25 °C, 76 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 840 mm against 3 mm in February — 265 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

The sea off Kyaukpyu is warmest in May at 30 °C and coldest in February at 26 °C. Sea temperature lags the air by a month or two, which is why late summer swims warmer than early summer at the same air temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	25.9 °C	10 mm	21 %
February	27.2 °C	3 mm	20 %
March	29.2 °C	6 mm	26 %
April	30.9 °C	28 mm	35 %
May	30.4 °C	306 mm	63 %
June	28.4 °C	816 mm	92 %
July	27.8 °C	840 mm	95 %
August	27.8 °C	689 mm	95 %
September	28.5 °C	404 mm	88 %
October	29.4 °C	179 mm	64 %
November	28.8 °C	41 mm	35 %
December	27.0 °C	15 mm	26 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	25.9 °C	19.7 °C	22.9 °C	30.3 °C	15.4 °C	22	0
February	27.2 °C	20.7 °C	23.9 °C	31.1 °C	16.4 °C	27	1
March	29.2 °C	23.3 °C	26.1 °C	35.2 °C	18.8 °C	31	6
April	30.9 °C	26.1 °C	28.3 °C	33.0 °C	22.4 °C	30	25
May	30.4 °C	26.6 °C	28.4 °C	34.9 °C	24.4 °C	31	20
June	28.4 °C	25.9 °C	27.0 °C	32.2 °C	23.8 °C	30	4
July	27.8 °C	25.6 °C	26.5 °C	30.9 °C	24.4 °C	31	1
August	27.8 °C	25.4 °C	26.4 °C	30.9 °C	24.3 °C	31	0
September	28.5 °C	25.4 °C	26.8 °C	32.2 °C	23.9 °C	30	3
October	29.4 °C	25.4 °C	27.2 °C	32.5 °C	22.3 °C	31	10
November	28.8 °C	23.8 °C	26.3 °C	32.1 °C	18.5 °C	30	5
December	27.0 °C	21.2 °C	24.2 °C	31.7 °C	16.6 °C	28	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind	Sea temp
January	10 mm	1	11 h/day	21 %	71 %	14 km/h	26.1 °C
February	3 mm	1	12 h/day	20 %	72 %	16 km/h	25.7 °C
March	6 mm	1	12 h/day	26 %	75 %	19 km/h	26.8 °C
April	28 mm	5	13 h/day	35 %	76 %	19 km/h	28.6 °C
May	306 mm	22	13 h/day	63 %	81 %	18 km/h	29.7 °C
June	816 mm	30	13 h/day	92 %	89 %	19 km/h	29.3 °C
July	840 mm	31	13 h/day	95 %	90 %	19 km/h	28.7 °C
August	689 mm	31	13 h/day	95 %	90 %	18 km/h	28.3 °C
September	404 mm	28	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	15 km/h	28.8 °C
October	179 mm	20	12 h/day	64 %	84 %	12 km/h	29.7 °C
November	41 mm	4	11 h/day	35 %	77 %	12 km/h	28.9 °C
December	15 mm	1	11 h/day	26 %	72 %	13 km/h	27.4 °C

How Kyaukpyu 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
Kyaukpyu	31 °C	20 °C	3,335 mm	352
Sittwe · Myanmar	32 °C	17 °C	3,044 mm	352
Nay Pyi Taw · Myanmar	37 °C	14 °C	1,530 mm	361
Cox’s Bāzār · Bangladesh	31 °C	16 °C	2,645 mm	323
Meiktila · Myanmar	37 °C	14 °C	1,037 mm	358
Pathein · Myanmar	35 °C	19 °C	2,286 mm	365
Bāndarban · Bangladesh	34 °C	14 °C	2,072 mm	343

Where Kyaukpyu ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Best beach destinations in Asia in February	4th of 50	100/100
Best beach destinations in the world in February	6th of 50	100/100
Best beach destinations in Asia in March	7th of 50	98/100
Best beach destinations in Asia year-round	11th of 50	82/100
Best beach destinations in the world in March	12th of 50	98/100
Best beach destinations in Asia in December	19th of 50	98/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kyaukpyu’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kyaukpyu?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, February, 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 Kyaukpyu get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 76 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kyaukpyu?

July, averaging 840 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is February with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 3,335 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 Kyaukpyu 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: 19.428°, 93.551° (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.