Ideal weather days in Ho Chi Minh City
The best time to visit Ho Chi Minh City for warm, dry weather is January, with about 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Ho Chi Minh City's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in January.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Ho Chi Minh City, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot124
- Too wet106
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
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), Ho Chi Minh City averaged 160 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Vietnam, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in February and March (up to 23 a month, 119 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): 124 a year, mostly in April and May. Another 106 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June to October. A day can fail more than one test.
Ho Chi Minh City weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 °C 88 °F | 1 | 0 | 6 | 29 of 31 |
| February | 32 °C 90 °F | 1 | 0 | 6 | 21 of 28 |
| March | 33 °C 91 °F | 0 | 0 | 8 | 17 of 31 |
| April | 35 °C 94 °F | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 of 30 |
| May | 35 °C 94 °F | 11 | 0 | 1 | 5 of 31 |
| June | 33 °C 91 °F | 17 | 0 | 2 | 5 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 90 °F | 18 | 0 | 0 | 10 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 14 | 0 | 1 | 7 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 90 °F | 18 | 0 | 1 | 10 of 30 |
| October | 33 °C 91 °F | 18 | 0 | 1 | 14 of 31 |
| November | 33 °C 91 °F | 7 | 0 | 3 | 18 of 30 |
| December | 32 °C 90 °F | 6 | 0 | 3 | 20 of 31 |
| Year | 112 | 0 | 37 | 160 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 176 warm, dry days
- 2024 129 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Ho Chi Minh City for good weather?
The best time to visit Ho Chi Minh City for warm, dry weather is January, with about 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in February and March (up to 23 a month, 119 a year). Counted from measured days at Nha Be station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Ho Chi Minh City?
On average 112 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (18 rain days), the driest March (0).
How many sunny days does Ho Chi Minh City get a year?
About 37 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 March (8).
How warm does Ho Chi Minh City get?
The median daily high ranged from 31 °C (88 °F) in January to 35 °C (94 °F) in April.
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Source: Nha Be weather station (48894099999), 21 km from the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, 4 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 86% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.