Climate and average weather in Cổ Đô

In Cổ Đô, the summers are oppressive, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid October to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cổ Đô typically varies from 14°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 37°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Cổ Đô for warm-weather activities is from mid October to early April.

Hottest
Jun
33°
Coldest
Jan
14°
Wettest
Aug
354 mm
Driest
Feb
34 mm
Rain / yr
1800 mm
167 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
17 m
21.3°N
Clearest
Nov
57% cloud

Cổ Đô 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 October to early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.5 months, from April 22 to October 6, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Cổ Đô is June, with an average high of 33°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.5 months, from December 8 to February 21, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in Cổ Đô is January, with an average low of 14°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1914
Feb2115
Mar2418
Apr2922
May3125
Jun3326
Jul3326
Aug3226
Sep3125
Oct2922
Nov2519
Dec2115

How hot and cold Cổ Đô 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, Cổ Đô feels like about 42°C (around June 26). About 176 days a year carry some heat stress, and 101 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan19191414
Feb21211515
Mar24241818
Apr31292222
May37312425
Jun41332626
Jul41332626
Aug40322626
Sep37312525
Oct31292222
Nov25251919
Dec21211515

Average hourly temperature in Cổ Đô

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 June afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 14°C.

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

Cổ Đô 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
Jan19° / 14°459.110.86.0
Feb21° / 15°348.511.36.3
Mar24° / 18°6111.611.86.3
Apr29° / 22°10312.212.55.2
May31° / 25°23017.9133.4
Jun33° / 26°23819.113.32.6
Jul33° / 26°29120.913.22.6
Aug32° / 26°35422.512.72.7
Sep31° / 25°23018.812.13.5
Oct29° / 22°11911.611.55.6
Nov25° / 19°587.5117.1
Dec21° / 15°387.610.76.8

Chance of rain

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

Cổ Đô gets about 1800 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 5.2 months, from around Apr 30 to Oct 3, peaking in August at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 19.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 354 mm over about 23 wet days; February is the driest, with 34 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 28 · 74%Dec 19 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb309
Mar3712
Apr4112
May5818
Jun6419
Jul6821
Aug7323
Sep6219
Oct3712
Nov268
Dec248

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cổ Đô collects about 1800 mm of rain across 167 wet days — roughly 150 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 354 mm, while February is the driest at just 34 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4534611032302382913542301195838
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan459
Feb349
Mar6112
Apr10312
May23018
Jun23819
Jul29121
Aug35423
Sep23019
Oct11912
Nov588
Dec388

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cổ Đô, 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 September 11 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around January 4. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 50% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 12 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around September 10. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 6 · 53%Jun 16 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb2575
Mar2476
Apr3169
May2575
Jun1090
Jul1189
Aug1882
Sep3466
Oct4951
Nov5050
Dec4258

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 8, brings about 13 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.86:435:33
Feb11.36:355:51
Mar11.86:136:04
Apr12.55:446:13
May13.05:246:25
Jun13.35:206:37
Jul13.25:296:40
Aug12.75:416:25
Sep12.15:495:56
Oct11.55:595:29
Nov11.06:155:13
Dec10.76:335:16

Sunny days

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

Cổ Đô averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Sep 9 to Jan 5. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 1 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the November peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedNov 111 daysJun 161 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Mixed

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 Cổ Đô, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.7 months, from around March 22 to November 10. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 11 to March 21, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 67% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 21 · 71%May 6 · 0%humidoppressivemiserablemuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan4423211100
Feb3221241940
Mar11152329211
Apr1412224021
May002113058
Jun0001891
Jul0000397
Aug0000397
Sep00162766
Oct0411264514
Nov9182626201
Dec3425251320

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.

Wind in Cổ Đô is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 18 · 6 km/hDec 6 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Cổ Đô

In seasonPeak

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

Cổ Đô sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Cổ Đô's monsoon runs May–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Pacific typhoon
Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Cổ Đô

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Cổ Đô 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 Cổ Đô for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to early April, with a peak score in the last week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 24 · 7.2

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
Jan6.0good
Feb6.3good
Mar6.3good
Apr5.2fair
May3.4poor
Jun2.6poor
Jul2.6poor
Aug2.7poor
Sep3.5fair
Oct5.6good
Nov7.1good
Dec6.8good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Cổ Đô for hot-weather activities run from late March to mid May and again from late September to late November, with a peak score in the first week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 1 · 6.9

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 Cổ Đô, 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 June (highs near 33°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 19°C), pack rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Cổ Đô sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cổ Đô 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 Cổ Đô peaks around June 20 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 20 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highHighVery highExtremeHighJun 20UV 12Nov 20UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb7High
Mar8Very high
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep6High
Oct7Very high
Nov5High
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Cổ Đô

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 June 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)
Jan5.51
Feb62.5
Mar6.54
Apr61.5
May74
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug85.5
Sep62
Oct63
Nov50
Dec50

Air quality in Cổ Đô 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 Cổ Đô is worst in April — around 98 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.8× the cleanest month (July, 26 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyApr 1494 µg/m³Jul 2026 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan76Unhealthy
Feb71Unhealthy
Mar76Unhealthy
Apr98Unhealthy
May57Unhealthy
Jun32Moderate
Jul26Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep39Poor
Oct53Poor
Nov66Unhealthy
Dec77Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cổ Đô 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. Cổ Đô banks about 5,186 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan210
Feb233
Mar344
Apr451
May556
Jun587
Jul603
Aug585
Sep533
Oct475
Nov358
Dec251

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.

Cổ Đô receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 4.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Apr 8 to Oct 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 4.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is January, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 53% less than the June peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 294.8 kWhJan 162.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.2Moderate
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar3.0Moderate
Apr4.0Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct3.8Moderate
Nov3.1Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Cổ Đô?

Cổ Đô sits at 21.3°N, 105.4°E, 17 m above sea level, in Vietnam. The nearest listed city is Việt Trì, 6.0 km away.

Topography around Cổ Đô

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cổ Đô has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 22 m around an average of 13 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 333 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,211 m.

The land around Cổ Đô is covered by cropland (39%) within 3 km, trees (42%) and cropland (33%) within 16 km, and trees (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
22 m
16 km
333 m
80 km
2,211 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Việt Trì 6.0 km · Phú Thọ 20 km · Sơn Tây 21 km · Ba Vì 22 km · Vĩnh Yên 25 km · Phúc Yên 36 km · Đan Phượng 37 km · Thượng Cát 43 km

Vietnam travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B / C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$5,066
2025
Happiness
6.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
59%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.5
per 100k, 2011
Road deaths
30.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 500
Religion
none 86%Catholic 6%Buddhist 6%Protestant 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 Cổ Đô (21.2796°, 105.364°, elevation 17 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).