Climate and average weather in Nha Trang

In Nha Trang, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: late December to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nha Trang typically varies from 22°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 33°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 Nha Trang for warm-weather activities is from late December to mid April.

Hottest
Jun
31°
Coldest
Jan
22°
Wettest
Nov
332 mm
Driest
Feb
39 mm
Rain / yr
1671 mm
201 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
10 m
12.2°N
Clearest
Mar
47% cloud

Nha Trang is city of Vietnam, capital of the Khánh Hòa Province.

Air quality
Excellent
PM10 14 µg/m³ · 2015
Density
2,307/km²
people per km²
Founded
1977

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

Nha Trang 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 December to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Nha Trang stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 31°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 22°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2522
Feb2623
Mar2824
Apr3026
May3127
Jun3127
Jul3127
Aug3127
Sep3027
Oct2825
Nov2724
Dec2623

How hot and cold Nha Trang 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, Nha Trang feels like about 39°C (around June 11). About 209 days a year carry some heat stress, and 35 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan25252222
Feb26262323
Mar31282424
Apr35302626
May39312727
Jun39312727
Jul39312727
Aug39312727
Sep37302727
Oct33282525
Nov29272424
Dec26262323

Average hourly temperature in Nha Trang

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 22°C.

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

Nha Trang 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
Jan25° / 22°9012.111.46.4
Feb26° / 23°397.311.67.0
Mar28° / 24°508.411.96.5
Apr30° / 26°528.812.35.4
May31° / 27°10216.112.63.8
Jun31° / 27°8617.512.73.4
Jul31° / 27°8920.512.63.4
Aug31° / 27°9820.112.43.3
Sep30° / 27°17724.212.13.1
Oct28° / 25°28025.111.73.8
Nov27° / 24°33221.211.44.7
Dec26° / 23°27619.411.35.1

Chance of rain

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

Nha Trang gets about 1671 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 7.3 months, from around May 18 to Dec 24, peaking in September at about 84% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 4.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 332 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 39 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 22 · 84%Mar 4 · 23%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3912
Feb267
Mar278
Apr309
May5216
Jun6018
Jul6421
Aug6520
Sep8124
Oct8025
Nov7121
Dec6219

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nha Trang collects about 1671 mm of rain across 201 wet days — roughly 139 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 332 mm, while February is the driest at just 39 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec90395052102868998177280332276
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan9012
Feb397
Mar508
Apr529
May10216
Jun8618
Jul8921
Aug9820
Sep17724
Oct28025
Nov33221
Dec27619

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nha Trang, 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 January 7 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around May 11. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 12 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around November 5. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 11 · 67%Sep 13 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4258
Feb5941
Mar6634
Apr6337
May3664
Jun2575
Jul2575
Aug2476
Sep1981
Oct3268
Nov3961
Dec3268

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 May 29, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:125:33
Feb11.66:105:46
Mar11.95:555:50
Apr12.35:355:52
May12.65:235:56
Jun12.75:226:05
Jul12.65:296:09
Aug12.45:356:00
Sep12.15:365:40
Oct11.75:375:20
Nov11.45:465:11
Dec11.36:015:18

Sunny days

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

Nha Trang averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Jan 22 to May 14. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 3 sunny days — about 82% fewer than the March peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightMar 1614 daysSep 122 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb10Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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.

Nha Trang 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 January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 89% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1149391
Feb643491
Mar0167211
Apr014554
May00793
Jun00199
Jul00397
Aug00694
Sep001486
Oct035146
Nov1107316
Dec531613

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 Nha Trang is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Oct 19 to Mar 14. The windiest month is December, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 15 to Oct 18, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyDec 21 · 19 km/hSep 16 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct11calm
Nov16light breeze
Dec18light breeze

Hazard calendar for Nha Trang

In seasonPeak

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

Nha Trang sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Nha Trang's monsoon runs September–December, 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 Nha Trang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, Nha Trang 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 Nha Trang for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to mid April, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 12 · 7.0

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
Jan6.4good
Feb7.0good
Mar6.5good
Apr5.4fair
May3.9fair
Jun3.5poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov4.6fair
Dec5.1fair

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 Nha Trang for hot-weather activities is from mid January to mid May, with a peak score in the second week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 9 · 7.4

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 Nha Trang, 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.

Nha Trang packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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 June, Nha Trang sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Nha Trang

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 24 km away) is warmest in May at about 29°C and coldest in January near 25°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan25Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr28Warm
May29Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug28Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov27Warm
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Nha Trang 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 Nha Trang peaks around August 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highAug 18UV 13Dec 16UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Nha Trang

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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun8.56
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Nha Trang 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 Nha Trang is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJul 1718 µg/m³Nov 1713 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Nha Trang 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. Nha Trang banks about 6,201 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan431
Feb406
Mar497
Apr531
May587
Jun575
Jul588
Aug588
Sep548
Oct524
Nov474
Dec451

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.

Nha Trang receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Feb 18 to Sep 16. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 45% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 196.4 kWhDec 143.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.1Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.0Intense
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov3.9Moderate
Dec3.4Moderate

Where is Nha Trang?

Nha Trang sits at 12.2°N, 109.2°E, 10 m above sea level, in Vietnam. The nearest listed city is Ninh Hòa, 28 km away.

Tuy HòaĐưc Trọng

What Nha Trang looks like

Boats on the water with mountains in the background.
Photos by Tam Le and Mike Swigunski on Unsplash
Unique building resembling a ship by the water
brown wooden dock on body of water during daytime

Topography around Nha Trang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nha Trang has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 169 m around an average of 6 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 959 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,277 m.

The land around Nha Trang is covered by water (42%) and artificial surfaces (39%) within 3 km, water (41%) and trees (39%) within 16 km, and trees (49%) and water (39%) within 80 km.

3 km
169 m
16 km
959 m
80 km
2,277 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Ninh Hòa 28 km · Cam Ranh 36 km · Tu Bông 59 km · Khánh Hải 75 km · Phan Rang-Tháp Chàm 79 km · Da Lat 88 km · Tuy Hòa 96 km · Đưc Trọng 106 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 Nha Trang (12.2451°, 109.1943°, elevation 10 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). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).