Nay Pyi Taw climate

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Nay Pyi Taw is warmest in April, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 14 °C. August is the wettest month (334 mm) and February the driest (2.7 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Nay Pyi Taw averages 1,530 mm of rain and 361 days above 25 °C.

Myanmar · population 925,000 · 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 37 °C
Coldest month January 14 °C
Driest month February 3 mm
Wettest month August 334 mm
Least cloud February 13 % cloud
Hottest on record May 42 °C
Coldest on record January 10 °C

What to expectNay Pyi Taw through the year

Nay Pyi Taw has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 29 °C in January to 37 °C in April, a swing of 9.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 361 days a year reach 25 °C, 188 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 334 mm against 3 mm in February — 126 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.9 °C	8 mm	17 %
February	32.1 °C	3 mm	13 %
March	35.7 °C	7 mm	16 %
April	37.5 °C	24 mm	25 %
May	34.0 °C	156 mm	61 %
June	29.6 °C	285 mm	91 %
July	28.5 °C	315 mm	94 %
August	28.5 °C	334 mm	94 %
September	29.3 °C	230 mm	86 %
October	30.0 °C	132 mm	62 %
November	29.7 °C	28 mm	32 %
December	28.5 °C	9 mm	24 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.9 °C	14.4 °C	21.4 °C	33.8 °C	10.0 °C	30	8
February	32.1 °C	16.0 °C	23.9 °C	38.2 °C	10.0 °C	28	24
March	35.7 °C	19.6 °C	27.7 °C	39.5 °C	14.8 °C	31	31
April	37.5 °C	23.6 °C	30.5 °C	42.2 °C	17.6 °C	30	30
May	34.0 °C	24.6 °C	28.7 °C	42.3 °C	22.1 °C	31	26
June	29.6 °C	23.9 °C	26.0 °C	35.7 °C	22.3 °C	30	13
July	28.5 °C	23.5 °C	25.3 °C	33.3 °C	22.2 °C	30	6
August	28.5 °C	23.3 °C	25.2 °C	32.9 °C	21.6 °C	31	6
September	29.3 °C	23.3 °C	25.7 °C	32.9 °C	20.9 °C	30	11
October	30.0 °C	22.5 °C	25.9 °C	33.6 °C	18.1 °C	31	17
November	29.7 °C	19.5 °C	24.4 °C	34.2 °C	13.3 °C	30	13
December	28.5 °C	16.0 °C	22.0 °C	33.0 °C	10.5 °C	30	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	8 mm	1	11 h/day	17 %	64 %	8.1 km/h
February	3 mm	0	11 h/day	13 %	52 %	8.9 km/h
March	7 mm	1	12 h/day	16 %	45 %	9.8 km/h
April	24 mm	4	13 h/day	25 %	49 %	11 km/h
May	156 mm	19	13 h/day	61 %	71 %	12 km/h
June	285 mm	28	13 h/day	91 %	88 %	14 km/h
July	315 mm	29	13 h/day	94 %	90 %	13 km/h
August	334 mm	29	13 h/day	94 %	90 %	12 km/h
September	230 mm	26	12 h/day	86 %	88 %	9.7 km/h
October	132 mm	20	12 h/day	62 %	86 %	7.3 km/h
November	28 mm	5	11 h/day	32 %	77 %	7.2 km/h
December	9 mm	1	11 h/day	24 %	70 %	7.6 km/h

How Nay Pyi Taw 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
Nay Pyi Taw	37 °C	14 °C	1,530 mm	361
Meiktila · Myanmar	37 °C	14 °C	1,037 mm	358
Yawnghwe · Myanmar	32 °C	13 °C	1,021 mm	283
Taunggyi · Myanmar	28 °C	8.9 °C	1,016 mm	107
Amarapura · Myanmar	38 °C	15 °C	1,049 mm	359
Mandalay · Myanmar	37 °C	15 °C	1,048 mm	358

Where Nay Pyi Taw ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in March	32nd of 50	36 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Nay Pyi Taw’s climate

When is the best time to visit Nay Pyi Taw?

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 Nay Pyi Taw get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 188 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 14 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Nay Pyi Taw?

August, averaging 334 mm over 29 days with rain. The driest month is February with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,530 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 Nay Pyi Taw 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: 19.745°, 96.130° (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.