Climate and average weather in Kawkareik

In Kawkareik, the summers are muggy, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kawkareik typically varies from 17°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 38°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kawkareik for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
35°
Coldest
Jul
23°
Wettest
Aug
794 mm
Driest
Feb
12 mm
Rain / yr
3510 mm
199 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
22 m
16.6°N
Clearest
Feb
23% cloud

Kawkareik is human settlement in Myanmar.

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

Kawkareik 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 late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kawkareik stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 35°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 23°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3117
Feb3318
Mar3521
Apr3523
May3224
Jun2924
Jul2823
Aug2823
Sep3023
Oct3123
Nov3121
Dec3118

How hot and cold Kawkareik 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, Kawkareik feels like about 40°C (around April 16). About 288 days a year carry some heat stress, and 31 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31311717
Feb34331818
Mar37352121
Apr39352323
May38322424
Jun34292424
Jul32282323
Aug32282323
Sep34302323
Oct36312323
Nov34312121
Dec31311818

Average hourly temperature in Kawkareik

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 23°C.

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

Kawkareik 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
Jan31° / 17°13211.15.6
Feb33° / 18°121.411.44.4
Mar35° / 21°375.311.93.2
Apr35° / 23°9213.212.42.5
May32° / 24°35927.412.82.4
Jun29° / 24°65029.8132.7
Jul28° / 23°77330.812.92.9
Aug28° / 23°79430.912.62.9
Sep30° / 23°51129.112.12.7
Oct31° / 23°2212111.63.3
Nov31° / 21°365.611.24.9
Dec31° / 18°132.1115.9

Chance of rain

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

Kawkareik gets about 3510 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 6.0 months, from around Apr 23 to Oct 22, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 10.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 794 mm over about 31 wet days; February is the driest, with 12 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 5 · 100%Feb 10 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb51
Mar175
Apr4413
May8827
Jun9930
Jul9931
Aug9931
Sep9729
Oct6721
Nov206
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kawkareik collects about 3510 mm of rain across 199 wet days — roughly 293 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 794 mm, while February is the driest at just 12 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700750800850900JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec131237923596507737945112213613
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan132
Feb121
Mar375
Apr9213
May35927
Jun65030
Jul77331
Aug79431
Sep51129
Oct22121
Nov366
Dec132

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kawkareik, 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 21 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 3. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 4 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 20. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 100% 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 6 · 90%Aug 5 · 0%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb9010
Mar8416
Apr6931
May2278
Jun199
Jul199
Aug0100
Sep694
Oct3862
Nov7327
Dec8119

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 8, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:335:40
Feb11.46:285:55
Mar11.96:106:03
Apr12.45:466:08
May12.85:306:16
Jun13.05:286:27
Jul12.95:366:30
Aug12.65:446:18
Sep12.15:495:54
Oct11.65:535:31
Nov11.26:065:19
Dec11.06:235:24

Sunny days

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

Kawkareik averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.2 months, from around Oct 25 to May 1. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is June, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the February peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2824 daysJun 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan22Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar22Bright
Apr16Bright
May4Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov16Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Kawkareik, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.5 months, from around March 13 to November 27. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 28 to March 12, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 30% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 21 · 32%Apr 5 · 0%miserablehumidmuggyoppressivecomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan525402360
Feb521432650
Mar062445260
Apr002196910
May00014950
Jun00004357
Jul00006832
Aug00007426
Sep00006337
Oct00266429
Nov131234447
Dec4172836150

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 Kawkareik is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around May 27 to Aug 29. The windiest month is August, averaging about 6 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 30 to Nov 18, with October the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmAug 2 · 7 km/hOct 6 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Kawkareik

In seasonPeak

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

Kawkareik's monsoon runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Kawkareik

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Kawkareik is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Kawkareik for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 6.2

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
Jan5.6good
Feb4.4fair
Mar3.2poor
Apr2.5poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.7poor
Jul2.9poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov4.9fair
Dec5.9good

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 Kawkareik for hot-weather activities is from early November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 8.6

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 Kawkareik, 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.

For a warm-season trip around April (highs near 35°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Kawkareik sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 13 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kawkareik 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 Kawkareik peaks around August 13 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highAug 13UV 13Dec 18UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug14Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kawkareik

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)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar7.55.5
Apr85.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54
Dec63.5

Air quality in Kawkareik 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 Kawkareik is worst in March — around 112 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 10.0× the cleanest month (June, 11 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateGoodGoodModerateMar 17104 µg/m³Jun 2211 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb43Poor
Mar112Unhealthy
Apr47Poor
May18Moderate
Jun11Good
Jul12Good
Aug12Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct14Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kawkareik 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. Kawkareik banks about 5,961 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)
Jan434
Feb434
Mar550
Apr573
May552
Jun492
Jul491
Aug490
Sep496
Oct524
Nov480
Dec444

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.

Kawkareik receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Oct 11 to May 14. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 2.7 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 156.3 kWhAug 42.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.1Intense
May4.4Bright
Jun3.2Moderate
Jul2.8Moderate
Aug2.7Moderate
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Kawkareik?

Kawkareik sits at 16.6°N, 98.2°E, 22 m above sea level, in Myanmar. The nearest listed city is Myawaddy, 33 km away.

Topography around Kawkareik

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kawkareik has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 68 m around an average of 18 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,129 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,039 m.

The land around Kawkareik is covered by cropland (45%) and trees (32%) within 3 km, trees (75%) within 16 km, and trees (67%) and cropland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
68 m
16 km
1,129 m
80 km
2,039 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Myawaddy 33 km · Mae Sot 39 km · Mae Ramat 56 km · Mudon 64 km · Mawlamyine 65 km · Martaban 66 km · Hmaw Bi 67 km · Hpa-An 74 km

Myanmar travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type A / C / D / F / G / I
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,489
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
60%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.6
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
20.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 444
Religion
Buddhist 88%Christian 6%Muslim 4%Animist 1%

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 Kawkareik (16.5554°, 98.2371°, elevation 22 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).