Climate and average weather in Kampong Speu

In Kampong Speu, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: mid November to mid February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kampong Speu typically varies from 22°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 39°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while October is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kampong Speu for warm-weather activities is from mid November to mid February.

Hottest
Apr
36°
Coldest
Oct
24°
Wettest
Oct
228 mm
Driest
Feb
10 mm
Rain / yr
1206 mm
185 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
35 m
11.5°N
Clearest
Feb
46% cloud

Kampong Speu is city in Cambodia.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Kampong Speu weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid November to mid February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kampong Speu, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Kampong Speu stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 36°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is October, with an average low of 24°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3322
Feb3423
Mar3625
Apr3626
May3526
Jun3426
Jul3325
Aug3325
Sep3225
Oct3124
Nov3124
Dec3123

How hot and cold Kampong Speu really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Kampong Speu feels like about 43°C (around May 7). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 110 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34332222
Feb36342323
Mar39362525
Apr42362626
May42352626
Jun40342626
Jul38332525
Aug38332525
Sep38322525
Oct37312424
Nov35312424
Dec33312323

Average hourly temperature in Kampong Speu

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on April afternoons, near 36°C, and coldest before dawn in October, near 24°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Kampong Speu weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan33° / 22°162.811.44.4
Feb34° / 23°10211.63.6
Mar36° / 25°457.911.92.4
Apr36° / 26°8515.312.21.8
May35° / 26°13322.412.51.7
Jun34° / 26°12321.712.72.1
Jul33° / 25°12522.912.62.3
Aug33° / 25°13723.112.42.4
Sep32° / 25°2062612.12.3
Oct31° / 24°22824.711.72.8
Nov31° / 24°7211.711.54.0
Dec31° / 23°274.711.34.7

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Kampong Speu gets about 1206 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.6 months, from around Apr 17 to Nov 4, peaking in October at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 6.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 228 mm over about 25 wet days; February is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 3 · 91%Feb 6 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb82
Mar268
Apr5115
May7222
Jun7322
Jul7423
Aug7423
Sep8726
Oct7825
Nov3912
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kampong Speu collects about 1206 mm of rain across 185 wet days — roughly 100 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 228 mm, while February is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec161045851331231251372062287227
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan163
Feb102
Mar458
Apr8515
May13322
Jun12322
Jul12523
Aug13723
Sep20626
Oct22825
Nov7212
Dec275

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Kampong Speu, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 31 and lasts for 5.9 months, ending around April 29. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 30 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 30. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 94% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 12 · 68%Sep 9 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb6733
Mar6139
Apr4258
May1783
Jun1090
Jul1090
Aug793
Sep694
Oct1882
Nov4060
Dec4456

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 9, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:295:53
Feb11.66:286:05
Mar11.96:146:09
Apr12.25:556:10
May12.55:426:14
Jun12.75:426:22
Jul12.65:496:26
Aug12.45:556:17
Sep12.15:545:58
Oct11.75:555:39
Nov11.56:035:31
Dec11.36:185:38

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Kampong Speu averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Nov 1 to Apr 26. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the February peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightFeb 1214 daysSep 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Kampong Speu, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.3 months, from around February 26 to December 5. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 6 to February 25, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 16% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 25 · 17%Mar 19 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan2142638200
Feb182147240
Mar00636543
Apr00196624
May00014554
Jun00006040
Jul00007624
Aug00007030
Sep00005149
Oct00044452
Nov014225419
Dec162338302

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Kampong Speu is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around Jun 5 to Sep 6. The windiest month is August, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 7 to Nov 13, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 2 · 10 km/hOct 8 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Kampong Speu

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Kampong Speu's rainy season runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Kampong Speu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Kampong Speu throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late January, Kampong Speu is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Kampong Speu for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 22 · 4.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.4fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar2.4poor
Apr1.8poor
May1.7poor
Jun2.1poor
Jul2.3poor
Aug2.4poor
Sep2.3poor
Oct2.8poor
Nov4.0fair
Dec4.7fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Kampong Speu for hot-weather activities is from mid November to early March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 7.5

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Kampong Speu, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Kampong Speu packs about the same all year — highs hold near 36°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Kampong Speu sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kampong Speu by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kampong Speu peaks around August 18 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 9 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highAug 18UV 14Nov 23UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kampong Speu

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Kampong Speu by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Kampong Speu is worst in February — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.5× the cleanest month (August, 13 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateFeb 1542 µg/m³Aug 1913 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan34Moderate
Feb43Poor
Mar35Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kampong Speu is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Kampong Speu banks about 6,872 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan541
Feb524
Mar628
Apr627
May634
Jun589
Jul591
Aug586
Sep550
Oct549
Nov524
Dec529

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Kampong Speu receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Jan 15 to Jun 10. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is October, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 24% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 136.1 kWhOct 44.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr6.0Intense
May5.6Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.9Bright

Where is Kampong Speu?

Kampong Speu sits at 11.5°N, 104.5°E, 35 m above sea level, in Cambodia. The nearest listed city is Phumĭ Véal Tônsay, 28 km away.

KandoengDangkaoBoeng Kak PirChrang Chamreh MuoyPhnom PenhTa Khmau

Topography around Kampong Speu

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Kampong Speu.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kampong Speu has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 20 m around an average of 33 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 580 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,787 m.

The land around Kampong Speu is covered by cropland (41%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, cropland (63%) within 16 km, and cropland (53%) and trees (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
20 m
16 km
580 m
80 km
1,787 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Phumĭ Véal Tônsay 28 km · Phumĭ Yoŭl Toŭng 30 km · Kandoeng 39 km · Dangkao 41 km · Boeng Kak Pir 42 km · Chrang Chamreh Muoy 44 km · Phnom Penh 45 km · Ta Khmau 47 km

Cambodia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / C / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,872
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
30%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.8
per 100k, 2011
Road deaths
19.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 390
Religion
Buddhist 97%Muslim 2%other 1%Christian 0%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Kampong Speu (11.4533°, 104.5208°, elevation 35 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).