Kantharalak weather in August

In August, Kantharalak sees average daytime highs of 31°C and overnight lows near 25°C, with 219 mm of rain across 25.9 wet days and about 12.5 hours of daylight. It is the 7th-warmest and 2nd-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 31°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 2% of the time in August, and the air most often feels miserable.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 42 min at the start of August to 12 h 18 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Kantharalak's 12th-clearest and 4th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Kantharalak's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 31°; 7th warmest
Overnight low: 25°; 8th coldest
Rainfall: 219 mm; 25.9 wet days
Daylight: 12 h 30 min; 5:51 AM – 6:20 PM
Cloud cover: 90%; 12th clearest
Wind: 9 km/h; 4th windiest
Solar energy: 4.51 kWh/m²
Travel score: 2.6; out of 10

Kantharalak is town in Si Sa Ket province, Thailand.

Founded: 1956

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

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Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 31°C through the month.

A typical August day in Kantharalak reaches about 31°C in the afternoon and slips back to 25°C overnight — a 6°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 29°C and 33°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs on par with July and on par with September.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31
Avg low (°C)	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	31	25
2	31	25
3	31	25
4	31	25
5	31	25
6	31	25
7	31	25
8	31	25
9	31	25
10	31	25
11	31	25
12	31	25
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14	31	25
15	31	25
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21	31	25
22	31	25
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24	31	25
25	31	25
26	31	25
27	31	25
28	31	25
29	31	25
30	31	25
31	31	25

How August really feels in Kantharalak

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Kantharalak weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 7th-warmest and 2nd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	31° / 19°	4	1.1	11.2	5.7
Feb	33° / 21°	10	2	11.5	4.5
Mar	35° / 24°	37	6.6	11.9	3.0
Apr	35° / 26°	78	13	12.3	2.2
May	34° / 26°	156	22.1	12.7	2.1
Jun	33° / 26°	164	23.1	12.8	2.3
Jul	32° / 25°	190	25.4	12.8	2.5
Aug	31° / 25°	219	25.9	12.5	2.6
Sep	31° / 25°	247	25.5	12.1	2.7
Oct	31° / 23°	125	16.3	11.7	3.8
Nov	31° / 22°	39	5.2	11.3	5.2
Dec	30° / 19°	9	1.9	11.1	6.1

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 2% of the time in August, the cloudiest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 6% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 93%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Cloudier (%)	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	94	93	93	93	93	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92	92

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	6	94
2	6	94
3	6	94
4	6	94
5	6	94
6	6	94
7	6	94
8	6	94
9	6	94
10	6	94
11	7	93
12	7	93
13	7	93
14	7	93
15	8	92
16	8	92
17	8	92
18	8	92
19	8	92
20	8	92
21	8	92
22	8	92
23	8	92
24	8	92
25	8	92
26	8	92
27	8	92
28	8	92
29	8	92
30	8	92
31	8	92

Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Kantharalak gets around 219 mm of rain over 25.9 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 84% and peaks near 87% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	85	85	84	84	83	82	82	81	81	81	81	81	81	82	82	83	83	84	84	85	85	86	86	86	86	87	87	86	86	86	86

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	84
4	84
5	83
6	82
7	82
8	81
9	81
10	81
11	81
12	81
13	81
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27	87
28	86
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30	86
31	86

Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels miserable — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the miserable band about 72% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Oppressive (%)	38	38	37	37	36	36	35	35	34	34	33	33	32	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	21	20	20	19	19	19	19
Miserable (%)	62	62	63	63	64	64	65	65	66	66	67	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	79	80	80	81	81	81	81

	Oppressive (%)	Miserable (%)
1	38	62
2	38	62
3	37	63
4	37	63
5	36	64
6	36	64
7	35	65
8	35	65
9	34	66
10	34	66
11	33	67
12	33	67
13	32	68
14	31	69
15	30	70
16	29	71
17	28	72
18	27	73
19	26	74
20	25	75
21	24	76
22	23	77
23	22	78
24	21	79
25	21	79
26	20	80
27	20	80
28	19	81
29	19	81
30	19	81
31	19	81

Wind in August

Winds average 9 km/h in August.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 8 km/h on the calmest days to 10 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
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	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 42 min at the start of August to 12 h 18 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 24 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 5:48 AM to 5:52 AM, and sunset from 6:27 PM to 6:10 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	12.7	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.6	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3
Sunrise (AM)	5:48	5:48	5:48	5:48	5:49	5:49	5:49	5:49	5:49	5:50	5:50	5:50	5:50	5:50	5:51	5:51	5:51	5:51	5:51	5:51	5:51	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52	5:52
Sunset (PM)	6:27	6:27	6:26	6:26	6:26	6:25	6:25	6:24	6:24	6:23	6:23	6:22	6:22	6:21	6:21	6:20	6:20	6:19	6:19	6:18	6:17	6:17	6:16	6:15	6:15	6:14	6:13	6:13	6:12	6:11	6:10

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	12.7	5:48	6:27
2	12.6	5:48	6:27
3	12.6	5:48	6:26
4	12.6	5:48	6:26
5	12.6	5:49	6:26
6	12.6	5:49	6:25
7	12.6	5:49	6:25
8	12.6	5:49	6:24
9	12.6	5:49	6:24
10	12.6	5:50	6:23
11	12.6	5:50	6:23
12	12.5	5:50	6:22
13	12.5	5:50	6:22
14	12.5	5:50	6:21
15	12.5	5:51	6:21
16	12.5	5:51	6:20
17	12.5	5:51	6:20
18	12.5	5:51	6:19
19	12.5	5:51	6:19
20	12.4	5:51	6:18
21	12.4	5:51	6:17
22	12.4	5:52	6:17
23	12.4	5:52	6:16
24	12.4	5:52	6:15
25	12.4	5:52	6:15
26	12.4	5:52	6:14
27	12.4	5:52	6:13
28	12.3	5:52	6:13
29	12.3	5:52	6:12
30	12.3	5:52	6:11
31	12.3	5:52	6:10

Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 4.51 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.31 kWh/m² to a high of 6.09 kWh/m² in April across the year — August's 4.51 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.4
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	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	4.4	Bright
2	4.4	Bright
3	4.4	Bright
4	4.4	Bright
5	4.4	Bright
6	4.5	Bright
7	4.5	Bright
8	4.5	Bright
9	4.5	Bright
10	4.5	Bright
11	4.5	Bright
12	4.6	Bright
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20	4.6	Bright
21	4.6	Bright
22	4.5	Bright
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24	4.5	Bright
25	4.5	Bright
26	4.5	Bright
27	4.5	Bright
28	4.5	Bright
29	4.4	Bright
30	4.4	Bright
31	4.4	Bright

Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for Kantharalak

In seasonPeak

In August, Kantharalak sits inside its monsoon season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Kantharalak'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

Is August a good time to visit Kantharalak?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

2.6

Sightseeing

8th-best month of the year

4.0

Beach & pool

12th-best month of the year

August is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Kantharalak.

What to pack for Kantharalak in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, Kantharalak sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 26 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Kantharalak in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 14 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kantharalak peaks around August 13 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 23 at about 8 (very high).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	9	10	11	11	11	12	13	14	11	11	8	8
Level	Very high	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Very high

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	9	Very high
Feb	10	Extreme
Mar	11	Extreme
Apr	11	Extreme
May	11	Extreme
Jun	12	Extreme
Jul	13	Extreme
Aug	14	Extreme
Sep	11	Extreme
Oct	11	Extreme
Nov	8	Very high
Dec	8	Very high

Air quality in Kantharalak in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Kantharalak is worst in March — around 61 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.2× the cleanest month (December, 15 µg/m³).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
PM2.5 (µg/m³)	23	42	61	43	26	20	21	21	24	24	18	15
Level	Moderate	Poor	Unhealthy	Poor	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate

	PM2.5 (µg/m³)	Level
Jan	23	Moderate
Feb	42	Poor
Mar	61	Unhealthy
Apr	43	Poor
May	26	Moderate
Jun	20	Moderate
Jul	21	Moderate
Aug	21	Moderate
Sep	24	Moderate
Oct	24	Moderate
Nov	18	Moderate
Dec	15	Moderate

Location & terrain

Where is Kantharalak?

Kantharalak sits at 14.6°N, 104.6°E, 160 m above sea level, in Thailand. The nearest listed city is Det Udom, 55 km away.

Topography around Kantharalak

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kantharalak has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 42 m around an average of 155 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 149 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 707 m.

The land around Kantharalak is covered by trees (46%) and cropland (30%) within 3 km, cropland (56%) and trees (37%) within 16 km, and cropland (54%) and trees (40%) within 80 km.

3 km

42 m

trees 46%

16 km

149 m

cropland 56%

80 km

707 m

cropland 54%

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← July Kantharalak year-round climate September →Best places to visit in August

August weather nearby: Det Udom 55 km · Si Sa Ket 63 km · Warin Chamrap 66 km · Ubon Ratchathani 70 km · Anlong Veaeng 76 km · Phibun Mangsahan 92 km · Tbeng Meanchey 99 km · Surin 127 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

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 Kantharalak (14.6406°, 104.6499°, elevation 160 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).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	31	25
2	31	25
3	31	25
4	31	25
5	31	25
6	31	25
7	31	25
8	31	25
9	31	25
10	31	25
11	31	25
12	31	25
13	31	25
14	31	25
15	31	25
16	31	25
17	31	25
18	31	25
19	31	25
20	31	25
21	31	25
22	31	25
23	31	25
24	31	25
25	31	25
26	31	25
27	31	25
28	31	25
29	31	25
30	31	25
31	31	25

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	6	94
2	6	94
3	6	94
4	6	94
5	6	94
6	6	94
7	6	94
8	6	94
9	6	94
10	6	94
11	7	93
12	7	93
13	7	93
14	7	93
15	8	92
16	8	92
17	8	92
18	8	92
19	8	92
20	8	92
21	8	92
22	8	92
23	8	92
24	8	92
25	8	92
26	8	92
27	8	92
28	8	92
29	8	92
30	8	92
31	8	92

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	84
4	84
5	83
6	82
7	82
8	81
9	81
10	81
11	81
12	81
13	81
14	82
15	82
16	83
17	83
18	84
19	84
20	85
21	85
22	86
23	86
24	86
25	86
26	87
27	87
28	86
29	86
30	86
31	86

	Oppressive (%)	Miserable (%)
1	38	62
2	38	62
3	37	63
4	37	63
5	36	64
6	36	64
7	35	65
8	35	65
9	34	66
10	34	66
11	33	67
12	33	67
13	32	68
14	31	69
15	30	70
16	29	71
17	28	72
18	27	73
19	26	74
20	25	75
21	24	76
22	23	77
23	22	78
24	21	79
25	21	79
26	20	80
27	20	80
28	19	81
29	19	81
30	19	81
31	19	81

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	31	25
2	31	25
3	31	25
4	31	25
5	31	25
6	31	25
7	31	25
8	31	25
9	31	25
10	31	25
11	31	25
12	31	25
13	31	25
14	31	25
15	31	25
16	31	25
17	31	25
18	31	25
19	31	25
20	31	25
21	31	25
22	31	25
23	31	25
24	31	25
25	31	25
26	31	25
27	31	25
28	31	25
29	31	25
30	31	25
31	31	25

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	6	94
2	6	94
3	6	94
4	6	94
5	6	94
6	6	94
7	6	94
8	6	94
9	6	94
10	6	94
11	7	93
12	7	93
13	7	93
14	7	93
15	8	92
16	8	92
17	8	92
18	8	92
19	8	92
20	8	92
21	8	92
22	8	92
23	8	92
24	8	92
25	8	92
26	8	92
27	8	92
28	8	92
29	8	92
30	8	92
31	8	92

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	84
4	84
5	83
6	82
7	82
8	81
9	81
10	81
11	81
12	81
13	81
14	82
15	82
16	83
17	83
18	84
19	84
20	85
21	85
22	86
23	86
24	86
25	86
26	87
27	87
28	86
29	86
30	86
31	86

	Oppressive (%)	Miserable (%)
1	38	62
2	38	62
3	37	63
4	37	63
5	36	64
6	36	64
7	35	65
8	35	65
9	34	66
10	34	66
11	33	67
12	33	67
13	32	68
14	31	69
15	30	70
16	29	71
17	28	72
18	27	73
19	26	74
20	25	75
21	24	76
22	23	77
23	22	78
24	21	79
25	21	79
26	20	80
27	20	80
28	19	81
29	19	81
30	19	81
31	19	81

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	31	25
2	31	25
3	31	25
4	31	25
5	31	25
6	31	25
7	31	25
8	31	25
9	31	25
10	31	25
11	31	25
12	31	25
13	31	25
14	31	25
15	31	25
16	31	25
17	31	25
18	31	25
19	31	25
20	31	25
21	31	25
22	31	25
23	31	25
24	31	25
25	31	25
26	31	25
27	31	25
28	31	25
29	31	25
30	31	25
31	31	25

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	6	94
2	6	94
3	6	94
4	6	94
5	6	94
6	6	94
7	6	94
8	6	94
9	6	94
10	6	94
11	7	93
12	7	93
13	7	93
14	7	93
15	8	92
16	8	92
17	8	92
18	8	92
19	8	92
20	8	92
21	8	92
22	8	92
23	8	92
24	8	92
25	8	92
26	8	92
27	8	92
28	8	92
29	8	92
30	8	92
31	8	92

	Rain chance (%)
1	85
2	85
3	84
4	84
5	83
6	82
7	82
8	81
9	81
10	81
11	81
12	81
13	81
14	82
15	82
16	83
17	83
18	84
19	84
20	85
21	85
22	86
23	86
24	86
25	86
26	87
27	87
28	86
29	86
30	86
31	86

	Oppressive (%)	Miserable (%)
1	38	62
2	38	62
3	37	63
4	37	63
5	36	64
6	36	64
7	35	65
8	35	65
9	34	66
10	34	66
11	33	67
12	33	67
13	32	68
14	31	69
15	30	70
16	29	71
17	28	72
18	27	73
19	26	74
20	25	75
21	24	76
22	23	77
23	22	78
24	21	79
25	21	79
26	20	80
27	20	80
28	19	81
29	19	81
30	19	81
31	19	81