Sóc Trăng climate

Name: Sóc Trăng
Address: VN

Sóc Trăng is warmest in April, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 23 °C. October is the wettest month (311 mm) and February the driest (8.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Sóc Trăng averages 1,932 mm of rain and 364 days above 25 °C.

Vietnam · population 221,430 · 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 23 °C
Driest month February 8 mm
Wettest month October 311 mm
Least cloud March 52 % cloud
Hottest on record May 37 °C
Coldest on record December 17 °C

What to expectSóc Trăng through the year

Sóc Trăng changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 364 days a year reach 25 °C, 186 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in May.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 311 mm against 8 mm in February — 37 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	22 mm	63 %
February	30.2 °C	8 mm	55 %
March	31.5 °C	31 mm	52 %
April	32.4 °C	68 mm	55 %
May	31.7 °C	206 mm	78 %
June	30.4 °C	253 mm	84 %
July	29.8 °C	254 mm	84 %
August	29.8 °C	248 mm	84 %
September	29.8 °C	285 mm	86 %
October	29.4 °C	311 mm	83 %
November	29.1 °C	158 mm	73 %
December	28.6 °C	86 mm	73 %

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	22.8 °C	25.4 °C	32.6 °C	17.6 °C	31	4
February	30.2 °C	23.3 °C	26.1 °C	32.9 °C	19.4 °C	28	16
March	31.5 °C	24.3 °C	27.3 °C	34.8 °C	20.1 °C	31	29
April	32.4 °C	25.2 °C	28.3 °C	35.7 °C	22.6 °C	30	28
May	31.7 °C	25.4 °C	27.9 °C	36.9 °C	23.4 °C	31	27
June	30.4 °C	24.9 °C	27.0 °C	33.5 °C	22.4 °C	30	19
July	29.8 °C	24.5 °C	26.5 °C	32.3 °C	22.9 °C	31	14
August	29.8 °C	24.5 °C	26.5 °C	32.7 °C	22.9 °C	31	15
September	29.8 °C	24.2 °C	26.3 °C	32.3 °C	22.6 °C	30	14
October	29.4 °C	24.0 °C	26.1 °C	31.7 °C	20.7 °C	31	11
November	29.1 °C	23.8 °C	26.1 °C	31.4 °C	19.6 °C	30	6
December	28.6 °C	23.1 °C	25.5 °C	31.7 °C	16.5 °C	30	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	22 mm	4	12 h/day	63 %	78 %	19 km/h
February	8 mm	2	12 h/day	55 %	75 %	20 km/h
March	31 mm	5	12 h/day	52 %	75 %	19 km/h
April	68 mm	12	12 h/day	55 %	77 %	17 km/h
May	206 mm	26	13 h/day	78 %	82 %	15 km/h
June	253 mm	28	13 h/day	84 %	86 %	16 km/h
July	254 mm	30	13 h/day	84 %	87 %	17 km/h
August	248 mm	29	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	18 km/h
September	285 mm	29	12 h/day	86 %	87 %	17 km/h
October	311 mm	28	12 h/day	83 %	88 %	14 km/h
November	158 mm	18	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	16 km/h
December	86 mm	10	12 h/day	73 %	81 %	18 km/h

How Sóc Trăng 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
Sóc Trăng	32 °C	23 °C	1,932 mm	364
Vĩnh Châu · Vietnam	31 °C	24 °C	1,940 mm	364
Bạc Liêu · Vietnam	32 °C	23 °C	1,999 mm	364
Cần Thơ · Vietnam	33 °C	22 °C	1,858 mm	364
Trà Vinh · Vietnam	32 °C	23 °C	2,064 mm	364
Sa Dec · Vietnam	34 °C	22 °C	1,845 mm	364
Thốt Nốt · Vietnam	34 °C	22 °C	1,820 mm	364

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Sóc Trăng.

QuestionsCommon questions about Sóc Trăng’s climate

When is the best time to visit Sóc Trăng?

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 Sóc Trăng get?

In April, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 186 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 23 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Sóc Trăng?

October, averaging 311 mm over 28 days with rain. The driest month is February with 8 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,932 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 Sóc Trăng 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
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.