Buôn Ma Thuột climate

Name: Buôn Ma Thuột
Address: VN

Buôn Ma Thuột is warmest in April, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 18 °C. September is the wettest month (215 mm) and February the driest (4.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Buôn Ma Thuột averages 1,245 mm of rain and 335 days above 25 °C.

Vietnam · population 434,256 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month January 18 °C
Driest month February 4 mm
Wettest month September 215 mm
Least cloud February 44 % cloud
Hottest on record March 38 °C
Coldest on record December 12 °C

What to expectBuôn Ma Thuột through the year

Buôn Ma Thuột has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 33 °C in April, a swing of 5.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 335 days a year reach 25 °C, 122 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 215 mm against 4 mm in February — 53 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.3 °C	9 mm	56 %
February	30.0 °C	4 mm	44 %
March	32.5 °C	17 mm	44 %
April	33.2 °C	55 mm	55 %
May	31.3 °C	141 mm	76 %
June	29.5 °C	140 mm	82 %
July	28.6 °C	169 mm	82 %
August	28.2 °C	184 mm	84 %
September	27.8 °C	215 mm	85 %
October	27.6 °C	181 mm	76 %
November	27.2 °C	95 mm	66 %
December	26.0 °C	35 mm	69 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.3 °C	18.2 °C	22.1 °C	34.8 °C	12.2 °C	25	4
February	30.0 °C	19.0 °C	23.8 °C	37.1 °C	13.3 °C	27	15
March	32.5 °C	20.9 °C	26.1 °C	38.4 °C	15.3 °C	31	27
April	33.2 °C	22.4 °C	27.1 °C	38.3 °C	18.3 °C	30	28
May	31.3 °C	22.7 °C	26.3 °C	38.1 °C	19.6 °C	31	23
June	29.5 °C	22.3 °C	25.3 °C	34.7 °C	19.2 °C	29	13
July	28.6 °C	22.0 °C	24.7 °C	33.5 °C	19.2 °C	30	5
August	28.2 °C	21.8 °C	24.5 °C	31.8 °C	18.7 °C	30	3
September	27.8 °C	21.3 °C	24.0 °C	31.9 °C	18.1 °C	28	1
October	27.6 °C	20.7 °C	23.7 °C	32.3 °C	15.2 °C	29	1
November	27.2 °C	20.3 °C	23.3 °C	33.1 °C	13.1 °C	26	2
December	26.0 °C	19.1 °C	22.0 °C	32.7 °C	11.6 °C	20	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	9 mm	1	11 h/day	56 %	70 %	21 km/h
February	4 mm	1	12 h/day	44 %	64 %	20 km/h
March	17 mm	3	12 h/day	44 %	61 %	18 km/h
April	55 mm	9	12 h/day	55 %	65 %	15 km/h
May	141 mm	21	13 h/day	76 %	75 %	12 km/h
June	140 mm	21	13 h/day	82 %	80 %	13 km/h
July	169 mm	23	13 h/day	82 %	81 %	14 km/h
August	184 mm	24	13 h/day	84 %	82 %	14 km/h
September	215 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	12 km/h
October	181 mm	18	12 h/day	76 %	82 %	14 km/h
November	95 mm	7	12 h/day	66 %	78 %	19 km/h
December	35 mm	4	11 h/day	69 %	75 %	22 km/h

How Buôn Ma Thuột 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
Buôn Ma Thuột	33 °C	18 °C	1,245 mm	335
Ðà Lạt · Vietnam	26 °C	13 °C	2,058 mm	65
Đưc Trọng · Vietnam	29 °C	16 °C	1,601 mm	299
Ninh Hòa · Vietnam	33 °C	21 °C	1,626 mm	345
Bảo Lộc · Vietnam	30 °C	16 °C	2,348 mm	306
Nha Trang · Vietnam	32 °C	21 °C	2,151 mm	337
Tuy Hòa · Vietnam	32 °C	21 °C	2,006 mm	298

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QuestionsCommon questions about Buôn Ma Thuột’s climate

When is the best time to visit Buôn Ma Thuột?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, November, 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 Buôn Ma Thuột get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 122 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °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 Buôn Ma Thuột?

September, averaging 215 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is February with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,245 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 Buôn Ma Thuột 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: 12.667°, 108.038° (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.