Ideal weather days in Bangkok
The best time to visit Bangkok for warm, dry weather is November, December and January, with 22 to 24 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Bangkok's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in November, December and January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Bangkok, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot207
- Too wet100
- Too windy2
- Too cold0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Bangkok averaged 112 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Thailand, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in November, December and January (up to 29 a month, 166 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 207 a year, mostly in February to August. Another 100 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in May to October. A day can fail more than one test.
Bangkok weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 90 °F | 0 | 0 | 18 | 24 of 31 |
| February | 35 °C 94 °F | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 of 28 |
| March | 36 °C 97 °F | 4 | 0 | 3 | 4 of 31 |
| April | 37 °C 99 °F | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 of 30 |
| May | 36 °C 97 °F | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 of 31 |
| June | 35 °C 95 °F | 13 | 0 | 0 | 3 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 93 °F | 16 | 2 | 0 | 8 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 94 °F | 14 | 0 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| September | 33 °C 91 °F | 19 | 0 | 0 | 4 of 30 |
| October | 33 °C 91 °F | 14 | 0 | 0 | 9 of 31 |
| November | 33 °C 91 °F | 3 | 0 | 3 | 22 of 30 |
| December | 33 °C 91 °F | 1 | 0 | 9 | 22 of 31 |
| Year | 107 | 2 | 40 | 112 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 114 warm, dry days
- 2024 98 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Bangkok for good weather?
The best time to visit Bangkok for warm, dry weather is November, December and January, with 22 to 24 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in November, December and January (up to 29 a month, 166 a year). Counted from measured days at Bangkok International Don Mueang International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Bangkok?
On average 107 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was September (19 rain days), the driest January (0).
How many sunny days does Bangkok get a year?
About 40 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (18).
How warm does Bangkok get?
The median daily high ranged from 32 °C (90 °F) in January to 37 °C (99 °F) in April.
Nearby
- Yangon580 km, Myanmar60 days
- Chiang Mai580 km98 days
- Phuket690 km48 days
- Ho Chi Minh City740 km, Vietnam160 days
- Da Nang870 km, Vietnam161 days
- Kuala Lumpur1190 km, Malaysia79 days
Where is the best climate in Thailand?
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Source: Bangkok International Don Mueang International weather station (48456099999), 21 km from the centre of Bangkok, 3 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 85% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.