Climate and average weather in Phichit

In Phichit, the summers are muggy, sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly clear.

Best: late November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Phichit typically varies from 20°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 41°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 Phichit for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and late November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Dec
20°
Wettest
Aug
334 mm
Driest
Dec
9 mm
Rain / yr
1619 mm
172 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
44 m
16.4°N
Clearest
Feb
28% cloud

Phichit is town in Phichit province, Thailand.

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

Phichit 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 Phichit, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Phichit stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 20°C and high of 32°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3220
Feb3422
Mar3725
Apr3827
May3627
Jun3427
Jul3326
Aug3326
Sep3326
Oct3325
Nov3323
Dec3220

How hot and cold Phichit 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, Phichit feels like about 45°C (around May 4). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 236 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)
Jan34322020
Feb37342222
Mar41372525
Apr44382727
May45362727
Jun43342727
Jul42332626
Aug41332626
Sep42332626
Oct40332525
Nov37332323
Dec33322020

Average hourly temperature in Phichit

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 20°C.

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

Phichit 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
Jan32° / 20°112.311.14.9
Feb34° / 22°132.111.43.6
Mar37° / 25°335.111.92.1
Apr38° / 27°629.912.41.2
May36° / 27°1982212.81.5
Jun34° / 27°23926.1131.7
Jul33° / 26°27327.512.92.0
Aug33° / 26°33428.712.62.0
Sep33° / 26°30026.512.12.1
Oct33° / 25°12416.411.63.1
Nov33° / 23°243.811.24.4
Dec32° / 20°91.3115.3

Chance of rain

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

Phichit gets about 1619 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 5.7 months, from around Apr 28 to Oct 18, peaking in August at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 17.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 334 mm over about 29 wet days; December is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 3 · 93%Dec 17 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb72
Mar165
Apr3410
May7122
Jun8726
Jul8928
Aug9229
Sep8827
Oct5216
Nov144
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Phichit collects about 1619 mm of rain across 172 wet days — roughly 135 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 334 mm, while December is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec11133362198239273334300124249
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan112
Feb132
Mar335
Apr6210
May19822
Jun23926
Jul27328
Aug33429
Sep30027
Oct12416
Nov244
Dec91

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Phichit, 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 16 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 3. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 4 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 15. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% 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 8 · 87%Aug 2 · 3%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb8614
Mar7921
Apr6337
May2674
Jun694
Jul694
Aug496
Sep1486
Oct4654
Nov7129
Dec7822

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 9, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:546:01
Feb11.46:506:17
Mar11.96:326:25
Apr12.46:086:30
May12.85:526:38
Jun13.05:506:48
Jul12.95:576:51
Aug12.66:066:39
Sep12.16:106:16
Oct11.66:155:52
Nov11.26:275:40
Dec11.06:445:46

Sunny days

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

Phichit averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.2 months, from around Oct 22 to Apr 29. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 923 daysAug 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr14Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov16Bright
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.

Phichit is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 90% of the time. Even in December, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 13% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 24 · 18%Mar 26 · 0%muggyoppressivemiserablehumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan393040181
Feb262435321
Mar01829593
Apr00196625
May00012079
Jun0000595
Jul0000298
Aug0000298
Sep0000298
Oct00132471
Nov017234623
Dec3102138263

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

The windier part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Feb 8 to Aug 12. The windiest month is April, averaging about 7 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 13 to Feb 7, with October the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 9 · 8 km/hOct 20 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Phichit

In seasonPeak

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

Phichit'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 Phichit

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Phichit 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 Phichit 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 23 · 5.6

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
Jan4.9fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar2.1poor
Apr1.3poor
May1.5poor
Jun1.7poor
Jul2.0poor
Aug2.0poor
Sep2.1poor
Oct3.1poor
Nov4.4fair
Dec5.3fair

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 Phichit for hot-weather activities is from early November to late February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 8.3

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 Phichit, 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 38°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 32°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Phichit sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Phichit 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 Phichit peaks around August 14 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highAug 14UV 13Dec 13UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb10Very high
Mar11Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Phichit

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 6.5 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)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar7.55.5
Apr85.5
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct75
Nov6.53.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Phichit 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 Phichit is worst in March — around 56 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.5× the cleanest month (June, 23 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorPoorModeratePoorMar 1355 µg/m³Jun 2223 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan47Poor
Feb52Poor
Mar56Unhealthy
Apr46Poor
May32Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug24Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct34Moderate
Nov38Poor
Dec42Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Phichit 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. Phichit banks about 6,963 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)
Jan497
Feb505
Mar640
Apr666
May661
Jun608
Jul606
Aug596
Sep577
Oct585
Nov531
Dec491

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.

Phichit receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jan 23 to Jun 10. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 126.4 kWhAug 64.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.9Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May5.6Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul4.5Bright
Aug4.2Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Phichit?

Phichit sits at 16.4°N, 100.3°E, 44 m above sea level, in Thailand. The nearest listed city is Bang Krathum, 16 km away.

Topography around Phichit

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Phichit has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 21 m around an average of 37 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 62 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,323 m.

The land around Phichit is covered by trees (37%), cropland (31%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, cropland (74%) and trees (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (68%) and trees (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
21 m
16 km
62 m
80 km
1,323 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Bang Krathum 16 km · Taphan Hin 26 km · Thap Khlo 41 km · Bang Rakam 43 km · Ban Aranyik 43 km · Phitsanulok 44 km · Bang Mun Nak 46 km · Chon Daen 61 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 Phichit (16.4418°, 100.3488°, elevation 44 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).