Climate and average weather in Yenangyaung

In Yenangyaung, the summers are humid, sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are hot and clear.

Best: late November to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yenangyaung typically varies from 16°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 42°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 Yenangyaung for warm-weather activities is from late November to early February.

Hottest
Apr
39°
Coldest
Dec
18°
Wettest
Sep
176 mm
Driest
Feb
0 mm
Rain / yr
884 mm
115 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
56 m
20.5°N
Clearest
Feb
13% cloud

Yenangyaung is city in Myanmar.

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

Yenangyaung 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 early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.3 months, from March 13 to May 21, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Yenangyaung is April, with an average high of 39°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from November 24 to January 30, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Yenangyaung is December, with an average low of 18°C and high of 29°C.

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

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2916
Feb3318
Mar3722
Apr3926
May3727
Jun3426
Jul3326
Aug3226
Sep3326
Oct3225
Nov3122
Dec2918

How hot and cold Yenangyaung 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, Yenangyaung feels like about 44°C (around May 10). About 291 days a year carry some heat stress, and 211 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291616
Feb33331818
Mar38372122
Apr43392626
May43372727
Jun42342626
Jul41332626
Aug41322626
Sep41332626
Oct39322525
Nov34312222
Dec30291818

Average hourly temperature in Yenangyaung

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 39°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 18°C.

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

Yenangyaung 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°50.410.97.2
Feb33° / 18°00.211.34.9
Mar37° / 22°10.511.92.2
Apr39° / 26°91.712.50.7
May37° / 27°9110.3131.4
Jun34° / 26°15319.413.22.3
Jul33° / 26°14721.513.12.5
Aug32° / 26°15023.112.72.5
Sep33° / 26°17619.912.12.7
Oct32° / 25°12514.411.53.5
Nov31° / 22°193.1115.5
Dec29° / 18°70.710.87.2

Chance of rain

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

Yenangyaung gets about 884 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 5.5 months, from around May 14 to Oct 28, peaking in August at about 76% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 29.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 176 mm over about 20 wet days; February is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 7 · 76%Jan 29 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar11
Apr72
May3310
Jun6419
Jul7022
Aug7423
Sep6620
Oct4514
Nov113
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yenangyaung collects about 884 mm of rain across 115 wet days — roughly 74 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 176 mm, while February is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec501991153147150176125197
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan50
Feb00
Mar11
Apr92
May9110
Jun15319
Jul14722
Aug15023
Sep17620
Oct12514
Nov193
Dec71

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yenangyaung, 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 6.9 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 5.1 months, ending around October 20. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% 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 8 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan937
Feb946
Mar919
Apr8911
May5941
Jun1387
Jul595
Aug595
Sep1783
Oct4951
Nov7822
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)
Jan10.96:535:46
Feb11.36:466:04
Mar11.96:256:16
Apr12.55:576:25
May13.05:386:36
Jun13.25:346:48
Jul13.15:426:50
Aug12.75:536:36
Sep12.16:016:08
Oct11.56:105:41
Nov11.06:255:26
Dec10.86:445:30

Sunny days

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

Yenangyaung averages about 15 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 6.5 months, from around Oct 29 to May 15. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

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

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 2227 daysAug 120 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan27Brilliant
Feb24Brilliant
Mar26Brilliant
Apr24Brilliant
May15Mixed
Jun2Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
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 Yenangyaung, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around March 25 to December 14. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 15 to March 24, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 59% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 30 · 71%Apr 26 · 0%muggymiserableoppressivehumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan104938200
Feb194435300
Mar720413020
Apr021150361
May000116622
Jun00002476
Jul00001189
Aug0000892
Sep0000892
Oct00033166
Nov001439406
Dec118532530

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 Yenangyaung is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Apr 13 to Sep 13. The windiest month is June, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 14 to Apr 12, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 30 · 15 km/hOct 20 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr9calm
May11calm
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug12light breeze
Sep9calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Yenangyaung

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

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

Best time to visit Yenangyaung

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Yenangyaung 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 Yenangyaung 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 30 · 7.6

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
Jan7.2good
Feb4.9fair
Mar2.2poor
Apr0.8poor
May1.4poor
Jun2.3poor
Jul2.5poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct3.5fair
Nov5.5good
Dec7.1good

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 Yenangyaung for hot-weather activities is from early November to late February, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 15 · 9.4

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 Yenangyaung, 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 39°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Yenangyaung sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Yenangyaung 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 Yenangyaung peaks around July 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 13Dec 20UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7High
Feb8Very high
Mar10Very high
Apr9Very high
May13Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul13Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Yenangyaung

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 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)
Jan62.5
Feb6.54
Mar75
Apr7.55
May8.56
Jun85.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct74.5
Nov6.53.5
Dec5.51.5

Air quality in Yenangyaung 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 Yenangyaung is worst in April — around 92 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.3× the cleanest month (October, 13 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateApr 1289 µg/m³Oct 1013 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb43Poor
Mar77Unhealthy
Apr92Unhealthy
May34Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Yenangyaung 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. Yenangyaung banks about 6,612 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)
Jan399
Feb428
Mar592
Apr666
May683
Jun602
Jul598
Aug591
Sep572
Oct573
Nov489
Dec422

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.

Yenangyaung receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Jan 19 to Jun 5. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 37% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 106.8 kWhAug 74.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar6.6Intense
Apr6.8Intense
May6.0Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.4Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep4.4Bright
Oct4.4Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.4Bright

Where is Yenangyaung?

Yenangyaung sits at 20.5°N, 94.9°E, 56 m above sea level, in Myanmar. The nearest listed city is Minbu, 32 km away.

Topography around Yenangyaung

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yenangyaung has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 98 m around an average of 71 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 226 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,902 m.

The land around Yenangyaung is covered by grassland (36%) and trees (27%) within 3 km, cropland (41%) and grassland (39%) within 16 km, and cropland (41%), grassland (34%) and trees (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
98 m
16 km
226 m
80 km
1,902 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Minbu 32 km · Magway 36 km · Chauk 49 km · Kyaukpadaung 50 km · Bagan 82 km · Taungdwingyi 87 km · Pakokku 99 km · Meiktila 112 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 Yenangyaung (20.465°, 94.8712°, elevation 56 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).