Climate and average weather in Shwegyin

In Shwegyin, the summers are muggy, sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: late November to mid February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Shwegyin typically varies from 16°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 39°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
36°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
Jul
744 mm
Driest
Feb
3 mm
Rain / yr
3124 mm
186 wet days
Daylight
10.9–13.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
23 m
17.9°N
Clearest
Feb
17% cloud

Shwegyin 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 late November to mid February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Shwegyin 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 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 24°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3016
Feb3317
Mar3520
Apr3624
May3324
Jun2924
Jul2924
Aug2924
Sep3024
Oct3123
Nov3121
Dec3018

How hot and cold Shwegyin 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, Shwegyin feels like about 41°C (around April 21). About 284 days a year carry some heat stress, and 36 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30301616
Feb33331717
Mar36352020
Apr40362424
May38332424
Jun35292424
Jul33292424
Aug32292424
Sep35302324
Oct36312323
Nov34312121
Dec31301818

Average hourly temperature in Shwegyin

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 August, near 24°C.

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

Shwegyin 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
Jan30° / 16°61116.4
Feb33° / 17°30.311.45.0
Mar35° / 20°13211.93.4
Apr36° / 24°495.912.42.4
May33° / 24°32624.912.82.4
Jun29° / 24°62929.813.12.6
Jul29° / 24°74430.9132.8
Aug29° / 24°69830.912.62.8
Sep30° / 24°42429.412.12.6
Oct31° / 23°1832311.63.3
Nov31° / 21°386.211.25.2
Dec30° / 18°101.410.96.4

Chance of rain

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

Shwegyin gets about 3124 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 5.9 months, from around May 3 to Oct 28, peaking in July at about 100% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 4.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 744 mm over about 31 wet days; February is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 6 · 100%Feb 4 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb10
Mar62
Apr226
May7825
Jun9930
Jul10031
Aug10031
Sep9829
Oct7323
Nov226
Dec61

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Shwegyin collects about 3124 mm of rain across 186 wet days — roughly 260 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 744 mm, while February is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 66% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600650700750800850JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6313493266297446984241833810
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan61
Feb30
Mar132
Apr496
May32625
Jun62930
Jul74431
Aug69831
Sep42429
Oct18323
Nov386
Dec101

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Shwegyin, 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 22 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 9. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 10 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 21. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 99% 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 25 · 94%Aug 7 · 0%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb928
Mar8911
Apr8020
May3565
Jun397
Jul298
Aug199
Sep793
Oct4060
Nov7624
Dec8317

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 11, brings about 13 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.06:415:43
Feb11.46:355:59
Mar11.96:166:08
Apr12.45:516:15
May12.85:346:24
Jun13.15:316:35
Jul13.05:396:37
Aug12.65:486:25
Sep12.15:546:00
Oct11.66:005:35
Nov11.26:135:22
Dec10.96:315:27

Sunny days

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

Shwegyin averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.2 months, from around Oct 28 to May 5. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

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

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2626 daysJul 100 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb24Brilliant
Mar25Brilliant
Apr20Bright
May7Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct7Gloomy
Nov18Bright
Dec22Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around March 18 to December 7. 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 December 8 to March 17, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 55% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 7 · 59%Apr 15 · 0%miserablemuggyhumidcomfortableoppressivedrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1833331420
Feb2035331110
Mar3153633130
Apr00830556
May00035740
Jun00004357
Jul00006634
Aug00007030
Sep00005545
Oct00046333
Nov031031515
Dec4183631110

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.

Wind in Shwegyin is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 15 · 6 km/hOct 9 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Shwegyin

In seasonPeak

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

Shwegyin's monsoon runs June–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 Shwegyin

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 6.7

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
Jan6.4good
Feb5.0fair
Mar3.4poor
Apr2.4poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.6poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov5.2fair
Dec6.4good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 25 · 8.9

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 Shwegyin, 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 36°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Shwegyin sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Shwegyin 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 Shwegyin peaks around August 11 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highAug 11UV 13Dec 19UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar9Very high
Apr10Very high
May12Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep10Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Shwegyin

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan6.53.5
Feb74.5
Mar74.5
Apr7.55.5
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55
Nov6.54
Dec63

Air quality in Shwegyin 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 Shwegyin is worst in April — around 141 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 9.8× the cleanest month (July, 14 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateApr 13131 µg/m³Jul 1314 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb38Poor
Mar84Unhealthy
Apr141Unhealthy
May24Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec24Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Shwegyin 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. Shwegyin banks about 5,931 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)
Jan407
Feb413
Mar540
Apr592
May568
Jun496
Jul497
Aug497
Sep498
Oct522
Nov473
Dec427

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.

Shwegyin receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Dec 15 to May 18. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.0 kWh/m² — roughly 54% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 36.6 kWhAug 52.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.5Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May4.9Bright
Jun3.4Moderate
Jul3.0Moderate
Aug2.9Moderate
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Shwegyin?

Shwegyin sits at 17.9°N, 96.9°E, 23 m above sea level, in Myanmar. The nearest listed city is Nyaunglebin, 17 km away.

Topography around Shwegyin

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Shwegyin has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 58 m around an average of 18 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 668 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,897 m.

The land around Shwegyin is covered by trees (41%) and cropland (40%) within 3 km, trees (48%) and cropland (44%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) and cropland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
58 m
16 km
668 m
80 km
1,897 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Nyaunglebin 17 km · Daik-u 26 km · Kyauktaga 49 km · Waw 54 km · Kyaikto 70 km · Thanatpin 77 km · Bago 77 km · Pyu 78 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 Shwegyin (17.9212°, 96.8768°, elevation 23 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).