Climate and average weather in Yamethin

In Yamethin, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: late November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yamethin typically varies from 13°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 39°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
36°
Coldest
Dec
15°
Wettest
Sep
215 mm
Driest
Feb
1 mm
Rain / yr
1076 mm
150 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
203 m
20.4°N
Clearest
Feb
13% cloud

Yamethin is human settlement in Myanmar.

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

Yamethin 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 late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.0 months, from March 14 to May 14, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Yamethin is April, with an average high of 36°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 2.1 months, from November 26 to January 29, with daily high temperatures below 29°C. The coldest month of the year in Yamethin is December, with an average low of 15°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in February.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2813
Feb3115
Mar3419
Apr3623
May3425
Jun3124
Jul3024
Aug2924
Sep3023
Oct3022
Nov3019
Dec2815

How hot and cold Yamethin 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, Yamethin feels like about 38°C (around May 9). About 256 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan28281313
Feb31311515
Mar34341919
Apr37362323
May38342525
Jun35312424
Jul33302424
Aug33292424
Sep34302323
Oct34302222
Nov31301819
Dec28281515

Average hourly temperature in Yamethin

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 December, near 15°C.

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

Yamethin 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
Jan28° / 13°70.910.98.1
Feb31° / 15°10.411.36.1
Mar34° / 19°50.711.93.7
Apr36° / 23°152.212.52.3
May34° / 25°11314.8132.6
Jun31° / 24°17325.413.22.8
Jul30° / 24°18226.913.13.0
Aug29° / 24°2122812.72.9
Sep30° / 23°21525.212.13.0
Oct30° / 22°12220.111.53.8
Nov30° / 19°254116.3
Dec28° / 15°81.310.88.1

Chance of rain

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

Yamethin gets about 1076 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 5.6 months, from around May 13 to Oct 29, peaking in August at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 11.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 215 mm over about 25 wet days; February is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 12 · 91%Feb 11 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb10
Mar21
Apr92
May4815
Jun8425
Jul8727
Aug8928
Sep8425
Oct6320
Nov154
Dec51

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yamethin collects about 1076 mm of rain across 150 wet days — roughly 90 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 215 mm, while February is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec71515113173182212215122258
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan71
Feb10
Mar51
Apr152
May11315
Jun17325
Jul18227
Aug21228
Sep21525
Oct12220
Nov254
Dec81

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yamethin, 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 23 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around May 17. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 18 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around October 22. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 98% 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 24 · 95%Aug 12 · 1%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan928
Feb946
Mar919
Apr8812
May5644
Jun1090
Jul397
Aug298
Sep1189
Oct4456
Nov7921
Dec8713

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 2, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.96:485:41
Feb11.36:415:59
Mar11.96:196:11
Apr12.55:526:20
May13.05:336:31
Jun13.25:296:43
Jul13.15:376:45
Aug12.75:486:31
Sep12.15:566:03
Oct11.56:055:36
Nov11.06:205:21
Dec10.86:395:25

Sunny days

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

Yamethin 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 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Oct 29 to May 12. 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 2727 daysJul 120 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan27Brilliant
Feb24Brilliant
Mar26Brilliant
Apr24Brilliant
May12Mixed
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov20Bright
Dec24Brilliant

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around April 16 to November 28. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 29 to April 15, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 6 · 97%May 24 · 0%miserablehumidmuggyoppressivecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan57347100
Feb70264000
Mar503413300
Apr925352470
May02925621
Jun0000955
Jul0000973
Aug0000946
Sep00008812
Oct00111833
Nov2122738210
Dec2242261010

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 Yamethin is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Apr 5 to Sep 6. The windiest month is June, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 7 to Apr 4, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 26 · 12 km/hOct 20 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr8calm
May9calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Yamethin

In seasonPeak

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

Yamethin's monsoon runs May–October, 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 Yamethin

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early December, Yamethin 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 Yamethin 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 26 · 8.6

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
Jan8.1ideal
Feb6.1good
Mar3.8fair
Apr2.4poor
May2.6poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul2.9poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov6.3good
Dec8.1ideal

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 27 · 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 Yamethin, 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 December (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Yamethin sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Yamethin 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 Yamethin peaks around July 23 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highHighJul 23UV 12Dec 19UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7High
Feb9Very high
Mar9Very high
Apr9Very high
May13Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul13Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Yamethin

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 May 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)
Jan63
Feb6.54
Mar7.55
Apr7.55
May8.56.5
Jun85.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep85.5
Oct74.5
Nov6.53.5
Dec5.52

Air quality in Yamethin 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 Yamethin is worst in March — around 90 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.3× the cleanest month (July, 12 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateMar 2288 µg/m³Jul 1712 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan30Moderate
Feb39Poor
Mar90Unhealthy
Apr84Unhealthy
May24Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec26Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Yamethin 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. Yamethin banks about 5,719 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)
Jan322
Feb360
Mar519
Apr596
May599
Jun523
Jul518
Aug513
Sep500
Oct501
Nov421
Dec347

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.

Yamethin receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jan 13 to May 31. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 46% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 97.0 kWhAug 43.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.8Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun4.4Bright
Jul3.8Moderate
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.4Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.5Bright

Where is Yamethin?

Yamethin sits at 20.4°N, 96.1°E, 203 m above sea level, in Myanmar. The nearest listed city is Pyawbwe, 20 km away.

Topography around Yamethin

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yamethin has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 34 m around an average of 198 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 615 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,843 m.

The land around Yamethin is covered by cropland (68%) within 3 km, cropland (72%) within 16 km, and cropland (41%), trees (36%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
34 m
16 km
615 m
80 km
1,843 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Pyawbwe 20 km · Kalaw 50 km · Meiktila 58 km · Aungban 58 km · Wundwin 75 km · Naypyidaw 76 km · Pyinmana 77 km · Taungdwingyi 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 Yamethin (20.4319°, 96.1388°, elevation 203 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).