Yangon climate

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Yangon is warmest in April, with average highs of 37 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. August is the wettest month (477 mm) and February the driest (2.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yangon averages 2,314 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Myanmar · population 4,477,638 · 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 477 mm
Least cloud February 19 % cloud
Hottest on record May 41 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectYangon through the year

Yangon has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 31 °C in January to 37 °C in April, a swing of 6.2 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 226 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 477 mm against 2 mm in February — 229 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	27 %
February	33.2 °C	2 mm	19 %
March	35.6 °C	12 mm	22 %
April	36.8 °C	40 mm	33 %
May	32.9 °C	270 mm	74 %
June	29.6 °C	449 mm	95 %
July	29.0 °C	472 mm	96 %
August	28.9 °C	477 mm	96 %
September	29.4 °C	359 mm	90 %
October	30.2 °C	184 mm	68 %
November	30.6 °C	38 mm	39 %
December	30.1 °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	30.6 °C	18.1 °C	24.2 °C	34.7 °C	13.2 °C	31	20
February	33.2 °C	19.4 °C	26.1 °C	38.0 °C	13.1 °C	28	27
March	35.6 °C	21.9 °C	28.4 °C	39.3 °C	16.4 °C	31	30
April	36.8 °C	25.0 °C	30.4 °C	40.5 °C	21.6 °C	30	29
May	32.9 °C	25.6 °C	28.6 °C	41.3 °C	23.3 °C	31	24
June	29.6 °C	24.8 °C	26.5 °C	33.7 °C	23.3 °C	30	12
July	29.0 °C	24.4 °C	26.1 °C	33.1 °C	23.1 °C	31	8
August	28.9 °C	24.3 °C	25.9 °C	32.8 °C	22.9 °C	31	8
September	29.4 °C	24.3 °C	26.2 °C	32.8 °C	22.7 °C	30	11
October	30.2 °C	24.1 °C	26.7 °C	33.1 °C	19.9 °C	31	19
November	30.6 °C	22.2 °C	26.1 °C	33.7 °C	14.5 °C	30	22
December	30.1 °C	19.4 °C	24.5 °C	33.4 °C	12.2 °C	31	16

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	11 h/day	27 %	66 %	9.9 km/h
February	2 mm	0	12 h/day	19 %	59 %	11 km/h
March	12 mm	2	12 h/day	22 %	60 %	14 km/h
April	40 mm	5	13 h/day	33 %	62 %	16 km/h
May	270 mm	23	13 h/day	74 %	78 %	15 km/h
June	449 mm	30	13 h/day	95 %	89 %	16 km/h
July	472 mm	31	13 h/day	96 %	90 %	16 km/h
August	477 mm	31	13 h/day	96 %	91 %	15 km/h
September	359 mm	29	12 h/day	90 %	90 %	13 km/h
October	184 mm	20	12 h/day	68 %	86 %	11 km/h
November	38 mm	5	11 h/day	39 %	78 %	11 km/h
December	5 mm	1	11 h/day	31 %	70 %	11 km/h

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

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Yangon’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yangon?

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 Yangon get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 37 °C. About 226 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °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 Yangon?

August, averaging 477 mm over 31 days with rain. The driest month is February with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,314 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 Yangon 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: 16.805°, 96.156° (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.