Climate and average weather in Madaya

In Madaya, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and clear.

Best: early December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Madaya typically varies from 16°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 41°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Madaya for warm-weather activities is from early December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Dec
18°
Wettest
Sep
182 mm
Driest
Feb
5 mm
Rain / yr
1019 mm
126 wet days
Daylight
10.6–13.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
82 m
22.2°N
Clearest
Feb
15% cloud

Madaya is human settlement in Myanmar.

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

Madaya 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 early December to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.2 months, from March 13 to May 18, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Madaya is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from November 26 to January 30, with daily high temperatures below 30°C. The coldest month of the year in Madaya is December, with an average low of 18°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°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2916
Feb3217
Mar3621
Apr3826
May3627
Jun3427
Jul3427
Aug3327
Sep3326
Oct3225
Nov3021
Dec2818

How hot and cold Madaya 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, Madaya feels like about 43°C (around June 2). About 281 days a year carry some heat stress, and 201 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291616
Feb32321717
Mar37362121
Apr41382626
May43362727
Jun42342727
Jul41342727
Aug41332727
Sep41332626
Oct39322525
Nov33302121
Dec29281818

Average hourly temperature in Madaya

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 18°C.

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

Madaya 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
Jan29° / 16°80.810.87.8
Feb32° / 17°50.711.25.5
Mar36° / 21°141.311.82.8
Apr38° / 26°254.112.51.3
May36° / 27°16515.5131.8
Jun34° / 27°12318.313.32.2
Jul34° / 27°11719.113.22.2
Aug33° / 27°16421.512.82.4
Sep33° / 26°1822112.12.5
Oct32° / 25°16218.111.53.4
Nov30° / 21°434.710.95.8
Dec28° / 18°91.110.77.9

Chance of rain

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

Madaya gets about 1019 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.9 months, from around May 4 to Oct 31, peaking in September at about 73% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 4.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 182 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 17 · 73%Feb 4 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb21
Mar41
Apr154
May4916
Jun6118
Jul6119
Aug6922
Sep7121
Oct5718
Nov165
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Madaya collects about 1019 mm of rain across 126 wet days — roughly 85 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 182 mm, while February is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec851425165123117164182162439
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan81
Feb51
Mar141
Apr254
May16516
Jun12318
Jul11719
Aug16422
Sep18221
Oct16218
Nov435
Dec91

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Madaya, 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 19 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around May 19. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 20 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around October 18. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 23 · 95%Aug 9 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan937
Feb928
Mar8911
Apr8614
May6139
Jun1387
Jul496
Aug595
Sep1882
Oct5248
Nov8020
Dec8911

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 16, brings about 13 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 10 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.86:525:38
Feb11.26:435:57
Mar11.86:206:10
Apr12.55:506:21
May13.05:306:34
Jun13.35:256:46
Jul13.25:346:48
Aug12.85:476:33
Sep12.15:566:04
Oct11.56:065:35
Nov10.96:235:18
Dec10.76:425:21

Sunny days

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

Madaya averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.6 months, from around Oct 26 to May 14. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the January peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 2628 daysJul 260 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan27Brilliant
Feb24Brilliant
Mar25Brilliant
Apr22Bright
May13Mixed
Jun2Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct11Mixed
Nov21Bright
Dec25Brilliant

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.4 months, from around April 4 to December 16. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 17 to April 3, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 36% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 28 · 44%May 12 · 0%humidmiserableoppressivemuggycomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan23459500
Feb53551900
Mar420512420
Apr141845302
May001144342
Jun00003169
Jul00004456
Aug00002476
Sep0000991
Oct00022573
Nov00638488
Dec19503540

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 Madaya is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around May 3 to Sep 9. The windiest month is July, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 10 to May 2, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 2 · 14 km/hOct 25 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May9calm
Jun12light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug10calm
Sep7calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Madaya

In seasonPeak

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

Madaya sits in the North Indian Ocean cyclone zone; the season peaks May and October–November.

Madaya's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Madaya

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Madaya 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 Madaya for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 8.4

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
Jan7.8ideal
Feb5.4fair
Mar2.8poor
Apr1.3poor
May1.8poor
Jun2.2poor
Jul2.2poor
Aug2.4poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov5.8good
Dec7.8ideal

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 23 · 9.3

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 Madaya, 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 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Madaya sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Madaya 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 Madaya peaks around July 20 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeExtremeVery highHighJul 20UV 12Dec 22UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb7Very high
Mar8Very high
Apr8Very high
May11Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul13Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct9Very high
Nov7Very high
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Madaya

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 July 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)
Jan5.51.5
Feb63
Mar74
Apr74
May86
Jun85.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep85.5
Oct6.54
Nov63
Dec5.50

Air quality in Madaya 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 Madaya is worst in March — around 101 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.8× the cleanest month (July, 13 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyModerateMar 1896 µg/m³Jul 1813 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan34Moderate
Feb48Poor
Mar101Unhealthy
Apr69Unhealthy
May28Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Madaya 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. Madaya banks about 6,585 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)
Jan379
Feb410
Mar575
Apr652
May667
Jun620
Jul635
Aug617
Sep586
Oct571
Nov475
Dec400

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.

Madaya receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Jan 21 to Jun 5. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 40% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 116.6 kWhAug 93.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.7Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.1Bright
Aug4.0Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Madaya?

Madaya sits at 22.2°N, 96.1°E, 82 m above sea level, in Myanmar. The nearest listed city is Mandalay, 26 km away.

Topography around Madaya

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Madaya has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 18 m around an average of 77 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 379 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,447 m.

The land around Madaya is covered by cropland (49%) and trees (36%) within 3 km, cropland (68%) within 16 km, and cropland (45%) and trees (37%) within 80 km.

3 km
18 m
16 km
379 m
80 km
1,447 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Mandalay 26 km · Amarapura 34 km · Sagaing 39 km · Pyin Oo Lwin 41 km · Shwebo 58 km · Kyaukse 67 km · Mogok 89 km · Ye-u 93 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 Madaya (22.2115°, 96.1039°, elevation 82 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). 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).