Climate and average weather in Dok Kham Tai

In Dok Kham Tai, the summers are humid, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly clear.

Best: late November to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dok Kham Tai typically varies from 16°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 12°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 time of year to visit Dok Kham Tai for warm-weather activities is from late November to late January.

Hottest
Apr
35°
Coldest
Dec
17°
Wettest
Aug
253 mm
Driest
Feb
6 mm
Rain / yr
1257 mm
155 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
394 m
19.2°N
Clearest
Feb
23% cloud

Dok Kham Tai is town in Phayao province, Thailand.

Founded
1965

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

Dok Kham Tai 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 January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.5 months, from March 2 to May 16, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Dok Kham Tai is April, with an average high of 35°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 1.8 months, from November 25 to January 17, with daily high temperatures below 29°C. The coldest month of the year in Dok Kham Tai is December, with an average low of 17°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)
Jan2916
Feb3217
Mar3520
Apr3524
May3425
Jun3325
Jul3225
Aug3125
Sep3224
Oct3123
Nov3020
Dec2817

How hot and cold Dok Kham Tai 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, Dok Kham Tai feels like about 39°C (around April 19). About 265 days a year carry some heat stress, and 6 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)
Jan29291616
Feb32321717
Mar35352020
Apr38352424
May38342525
Jun38332525
Jul37322525
Aug37312525
Sep37322424
Oct35312323
Nov31302020
Dec28281717

Average hourly temperature in Dok Kham Tai

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 December, near 17°C.

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

Dok Kham Tai 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°152.5116.8
Feb32° / 17°61.211.35.2
Mar35° / 20°283.911.93.4
Apr35° / 24°719.512.42.4
May34° / 25°16619.712.92.4
Jun33° / 25°14421.513.12.4
Jul32° / 25°22124.8132.5
Aug31° / 25°25326.412.62.6
Sep32° / 24°2082312.12.8
Oct31° / 23°9814.711.64.1
Nov30° / 20°31511.16.0
Dec28° / 17°162.410.97.6

Chance of rain

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

Dok Kham Tai gets about 1257 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 5.8 months, from around Apr 26 to Oct 19, peaking in August at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 9.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 253 mm over about 26 wet days; February is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 6 · 86%Feb 9 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan73
Feb51
Mar134
Apr3210
May6320
Jun7322
Jul8025
Aug8526
Sep7623
Oct4715
Nov175
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dok Kham Tai collects about 1257 mm of rain across 155 wet days — roughly 105 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 253 mm, while February is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1562871166144221253208983116
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan153
Feb61
Mar284
Apr7110
May16620
Jun14422
Jul22125
Aug25326
Sep20823
Oct9815
Nov315
Dec162

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dok Kham Tai, 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 13 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around May 7. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 8 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around October 12. The cloudiest month is August, 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 26 · 90%Aug 1 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8218
Feb8911
Mar8515
Apr7525
May3565
Jun694
Jul595
Aug595
Sep1783
Oct5347
Nov7624
Dec7921

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 18, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, 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)
Jan11.07:005:58
Feb11.36:546:15
Mar11.96:346:26
Apr12.46:076:33
May12.95:496:43
Jun13.15:466:55
Jul13.05:546:57
Aug12.66:046:44
Sep12.16:116:18
Oct11.66:185:52
Nov11.16:335:38
Dec10.96:515:42

Sunny days

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

Dok Kham Tai 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 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Oct 20 to May 3. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

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

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 225 daysAug 60 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr18Bright
May7Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
Nov18Bright
Dec19Bright

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 Dok Kham Tai, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.2 months, from around March 22 to November 26. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 27 to March 21, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 50% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 9 · 53%Apr 20 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivehumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1038401110
Feb1239371210
Mar320413140
Apr011446390
May00112799
Jun00017524
Jul00007525
Aug00006634
Sep00017029
Oct01414756
Nov272338300
Dec1025352650

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

The windier part of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Feb 5 to Aug 22. The windiest month is June, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 23 to Feb 4, with October the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 25 · 8 km/hOct 4 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Dok Kham Tai

In seasonPeak

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

Dok Kham Tai'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 Dok Kham Tai

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 22 · 8.0

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
Jan6.8good
Feb5.2fair
Mar3.4poor
Apr2.4poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.4poor
Jul2.5poor
Aug2.6poor
Sep2.8poor
Oct4.1fair
Nov6.0good
Dec7.6ideal

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 Dok Kham Tai for hot-weather activities is from late October to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 19 · 8.8

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 Dok Kham Tai, 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 December (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Dok Kham Tai sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dok Kham Tai 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 Dok Kham Tai peaks around August 12 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highAug 12UV 13Dec 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb9Very high
Mar9Very high
Apr10Very high
May11Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Dok Kham Tai

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)
Jan6.53.5
Feb74.5
Mar7.55
Apr7.55
May8.56
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep85.5
Oct75
Nov6.53.5
Dec62.5

Air quality in Dok Kham Tai 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 Dok Kham Tai is worst in March — around 89 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.9× the cleanest month (July, 15 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateMar 2085 µg/m³Jul 1915 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb39Poor
Mar89Unhealthy
Apr68Unhealthy
May28Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov19Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dok Kham Tai 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. Dok Kham Tai banks about 6,088 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)
Jan387
Feb403
Mar534
Apr583
May599
Jun570
Jul569
Aug556
Sep535
Oct522
Nov444
Dec387

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.

Dok Kham Tai receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jan 27 to Jun 8. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 106.4 kWhAug 84.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.6Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May5.5Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.3Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Dok Kham Tai?

Dok Kham Tai sits at 19.2°N, 100.0°E, 394 m above sea level, in Thailand. The nearest listed city is Phayao, 12 km away.

NanSan KamphaengLampangMae ChanChiang MaiPhrae

Topography around Dok Kham Tai

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dok Kham Tai has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 20 m around an average of 392 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 782 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,807 m.

The land around Dok Kham Tai is covered by cropland (75%) within 3 km, cropland (54%) and trees (34%) within 16 km, and trees (77%) within 80 km.

3 km
20 m
16 km
782 m
80 km
1,807 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Phayao 12 km · Chiang Rai 85 km · Nan 93 km · San Kamphaeng 103 km · Lampang 110 km · Mae Chan 110 km · Chiang Mai 114 km · Phrae 114 km

Thailand travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B / C
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 31% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$8,057
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
4.8
per 100k, 2011
Road deaths
32.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 402
Religion
Buddhist 93%Muslim 5%Christian 1%other 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 Dok Kham Tai (19.1624°, 99.9934°, elevation 394 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).