Kon Tum climate

Name: Kon Tum
Address: VN

Kon Tum is warmest in April, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 16 °C. September is the wettest month (266 mm) and January the driest (5.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kon Tum averages 1,517 mm of rain and 317 days above 25 °C.

Vietnam · population 205,762 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month January 16 °C
Driest month January 5 mm
Wettest month September 266 mm
Least cloud February 43 % cloud
Hottest on record April 38 °C
Coldest on record December 6.1 °C

What to expectKon Tum through the year

Kon Tum has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in January to 32 °C in April, a swing of 4.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 317 days a year reach 25 °C, 97 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in April.

Rain is strongly seasonal. September averages 266 mm against 5 mm in January — 51 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.5 °C	5 mm	52 %
February	30.0 °C	5 mm	43 %
March	32.0 °C	34 mm	47 %
April	32.1 °C	78 mm	61 %
May	29.9 °C	174 mm	82 %
June	28.1 °C	188 mm	88 %
July	27.1 °C	236 mm	89 %
August	26.9 °C	259 mm	91 %
September	26.9 °C	266 mm	88 %
October	27.3 °C	167 mm	74 %
November	27.1 °C	79 mm	61 %
December	26.1 °C	25 mm	61 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.5 °C	16.2 °C	21.2 °C	34.3 °C	8.3 °C	24	6
February	30.0 °C	17.2 °C	22.9 °C	35.7 °C	10.5 °C	26	15
March	32.0 °C	19.2 °C	24.8 °C	37.4 °C	10.1 °C	30	24
April	32.1 °C	20.8 °C	25.6 °C	38.0 °C	14.6 °C	30	24
May	29.9 °C	21.5 °C	24.9 °C	37.1 °C	16.9 °C	30	14
June	28.1 °C	21.5 °C	24.0 °C	33.6 °C	18.0 °C	28	4
July	27.1 °C	21.2 °C	23.4 °C	31.7 °C	18.6 °C	26	2
August	26.9 °C	21.0 °C	23.2 °C	31.4 °C	18.6 °C	26	1
September	26.9 °C	20.5 °C	23.0 °C	30.8 °C	16.2 °C	24	0
October	27.3 °C	19.6 °C	22.8 °C	32.4 °C	12.6 °C	27	1
November	27.1 °C	18.6 °C	22.2 °C	32.7 °C	9.7 °C	25	3
December	26.1 °C	17.1 °C	21.0 °C	33.2 °C	6.1 °C	21	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	11 h/day	52 %	70 %	16 km/h
February	5 mm	1	12 h/day	43 %	66 %	15 km/h
March	34 mm	5	12 h/day	47 %	66 %	13 km/h
April	78 mm	12	12 h/day	61 %	73 %	11 km/h
May	174 mm	23	13 h/day	82 %	83 %	9.9 km/h
June	188 mm	26	13 h/day	88 %	88 %	12 km/h
July	236 mm	29	13 h/day	89 %	90 %	12 km/h
August	259 mm	29	13 h/day	91 %	90 %	12 km/h
September	266 mm	27	12 h/day	88 %	91 %	9.7 km/h
October	167 mm	16	12 h/day	74 %	85 %	11 km/h
November	79 mm	7	11 h/day	61 %	79 %	15 km/h
December	25 mm	3	11 h/day	61 %	75 %	17 km/h

How Kon Tum 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
Kon Tum	32 °C	16 °C	1,517 mm	317
Đức Phổ · Vietnam	33 °C	20 °C	2,416 mm	310
Quảng Ngãi · Vietnam	34 °C	19 °C	2,276 mm	313
An Nhơn · Vietnam	34 °C	20 °C	1,576 mm	319
Tam Kỳ · Vietnam	32 °C	20 °C	2,781 mm	282
Qui Nhon · Vietnam	33 °C	20 °C	1,957 mm	312
Điện Bàn · Vietnam	34 °C	20 °C	2,419 mm	292

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Kon Tum.

QuestionsCommon questions about Kon Tum’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kon Tum?

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 January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Kon Tum get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 97 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 16 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kon Tum?

September, averaging 266 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is January with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,517 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 Kon Tum 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: 14.355°, 108.008° (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.