Climate and average weather in Roi Et

In Roi Et, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: mid November to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Roi Et typically varies from 18°C to 36°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 40°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 Roi Et for warm-weather activities is from mid November to early February.

Hottest
Apr
36°
Coldest
Dec
19°
Wettest
Sep
253 mm
Driest
Dec
5 mm
Rain / yr
1305 mm
154 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
148 m
16.1°N
Clearest
Feb
31% cloud

Roi Et is town in Roi Et province, Thailand.

Density
3,382/km²
people per km²
Founded
1937

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

Roi Et 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 mid November to early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Roi Et stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 36°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 19°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in January.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3118
Feb3320
Mar3524
Apr3626
May3426
Jun3326
Jul3326
Aug3225
Sep3225
Oct3124
Nov3122
Dec3019

How hot and cold Roi Et 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, Roi Et feels like about 42°C (around May 30). About 293 days a year carry some heat stress, and 133 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)
Jan31311818
Feb33332020
Mar37352424
Apr40362626
May41342626
Jun41332626
Jul39332626
Aug39322525
Sep39322525
Oct35312424
Nov33312222
Dec30301919

Average hourly temperature in Roi Et

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 19°C.

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

Roi Et 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
Jan31° / 18°61.611.25.9
Feb33° / 20°112.111.54.6
Mar35° / 24°376.511.92.9
Apr36° / 26°6611.312.42.1
May34° / 26°18021.312.72.0
Jun33° / 26°16921.212.92.2
Jul33° / 26°20723.512.92.4
Aug32° / 25°24025.212.52.5
Sep32° / 25°25324.512.12.7
Oct31° / 24°10912.511.64.0
Nov31° / 22°243.511.35.2
Dec30° / 19°51.211.16.2

Chance of rain

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

Roi Et gets about 1305 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 21 to Oct 14, peaking in September at about 87% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 28.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 253 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 3 · 87%Dec 28 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb82
Mar207
Apr3911
May6821
Jun7121
Jul7524
Aug8225
Sep8125
Oct4113
Nov124
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Roi Et collects about 1305 mm of rain across 154 wet days — roughly 109 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 253 mm, while December is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6113766180169207240253109245
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan62
Feb112
Mar377
Apr6611
May18021
Jun16921
Jul20724
Aug24025
Sep25325
Oct10913
Nov244
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Roi Et, 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 6.5 months, ending around May 1. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 85% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 2 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 15. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 25 · 86%Aug 4 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb8515
Mar7624
Apr6139
May2575
Jun1090
Jul1090
Aug793
Sep1684
Oct4555
Nov6436
Dec7327

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 17, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:405:49
Feb11.56:366:04
Mar11.96:186:12
Apr12.45:556:16
May12.75:396:24
Jun12.95:376:34
Jul12.95:456:37
Aug12.55:536:26
Sep12.15:576:02
Oct11.66:015:39
Nov11.36:145:28
Dec11.16:305:33

Sunny days

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

Roi Et averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.9 months, from around Oct 26 to Apr 23. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 621 daysAug 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr11Mixed
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov13Mixed
Dec17Bright

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 Roi Et, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.3 months, from around March 10 to November 16. 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 17 to March 9, and December is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 33% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 25 · 42%Apr 25 · 0%humidmiserablemuggyoppressivecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1326372040
Feb6222928140
Mar161637390
Apr01421659
May00034750
Jun00003862
Jul00004159
Aug00003169
Sep00022375
Oct015204726
Nov292339263
Dec1221332860

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 Roi Et is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around Oct 21 to Feb 25. The windiest month is December, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 16 to Oct 20, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 14 · 14 km/hSep 21 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb11calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun10calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep7calm
Oct9calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Roi Et

In seasonPeak

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

Roi Et'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 Roi Et

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Roi Et 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 Roi Et for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 24 · 6.4

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
Jan5.9good
Feb4.6fair
Mar3.0poor
Apr2.1poor
May2.0poor
Jun2.2poor
Jul2.4poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep2.7poor
Oct4.0fair
Nov5.2fair
Dec6.2good

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 Roi Et for hot-weather activities is from late October to early March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 26 · 8.7

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 Roi Et, 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.

Roi Et packs about the same all year — highs hold near 36°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Roi Et sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Roi Et 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 Roi Et peaks around August 11 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 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 11UV 13Dec 10UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr10Very high
May11Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Roi Et

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)
Jan74.5
Feb75
Mar86
Apr7.55
May86
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct75
Nov6.54
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Roi Et 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 Roi Et is worst in March — around 52 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.6× the cleanest month (December, 20 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1751 µg/m³Dec 1320 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb40Poor
Mar52Poor
Apr41Poor
May30Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct28Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Roi Et 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. Roi Et banks about 6,537 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)
Jan447
Feb459
Mar595
Apr621
May628
Jun593
Jul593
Aug577
Sep546
Oct542
Nov490
Dec448

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.

Roi Et receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Jan 23 to Jun 18. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is September, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 146.2 kWhSep 64.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.0Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar6.0Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May5.6Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep4.5Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Roi Et?

Roi Et sits at 16.1°N, 103.7°E, 148 m above sea level, in Thailand. The nearest listed city is Ban Selaphum, 32 km away.

Topography around Roi Et

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Roi Et has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 30 m around an average of 147 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 61 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 385 m.

The land around Roi Et is covered by artificial surfaces (41%) and trees (34%) within 3 km, cropland (76%) within 16 km, and cropland (79%) within 80 km.

3 km
30 m
16 km
61 m
80 km
385 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Ban Selaphum 32 km · Kamalasai 32 km · Maha Sarakham 40 km · Kalasin 45 km · Kaset Wisai 45 km · Yasothon 60 km · Kuchinarai 69 km · Nong Kung Si 76 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 Roi Et (16.0567°, 103.6531°, elevation 148 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).