Climate and average weather in Tam Giang

In Tam Giang, 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 October.

Best: late December to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tam Giang typically varies from 25°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 32°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tam Giang for warm-weather activities is from late December to mid March.

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
25°
Wettest
Oct
346 mm
Driest
Feb
13 mm
Rain / yr
2095 mm
226 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2 m
8.8°N
Clearest
Mar
52% cloud

Tam Giang 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tam Giang stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 30°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 25°C and high of 27°C.

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

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2725
Feb2825
Mar2926
Apr3027
May3027
Jun2927
Jul2926
Aug2926
Sep2926
Oct2826
Nov2826
Dec2825

How hot and cold Tam Giang 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, Tam Giang feels like about 37°C (around May 10). About 262 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29272525
Feb30282525
Mar33292626
Apr36302727
May37302727
Jun36292727
Jul35292626
Aug35292626
Sep35292626
Oct34282626
Nov33282626
Dec30282525

Average hourly temperature in Tam Giang

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 May afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 25°C.

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

Tam Giang 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
Jan27° / 25°314.411.57.2
Feb28° / 25°132.111.77.5
Mar29° / 26°396.511.96.2
Apr30° / 27°8512.712.24.8
May30° / 27°2052512.43.2
Jun29° / 27°24526.812.53.0
Jul29° / 26°25828.812.53.0
Aug29° / 26°24628.212.33.1
Sep29° / 26°28627.512.13.1
Oct28° / 26°34628.811.83.2
Nov28° / 26°22722.111.64.1
Dec28° / 25°11512.811.55.7

Chance of rain

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

Tam Giang gets about 2095 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 6.9 months, from around May 2 to Nov 28, peaking in October at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 3.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 346 mm over about 29 wet days; February is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 8 · 95%Feb 3 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan154
Feb82
Mar217
Apr4213
May8025
Jun9027
Jul9329
Aug9128
Sep9228
Oct9229
Nov7322
Dec4213

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tam Giang collects about 2095 mm of rain across 226 wet days — roughly 175 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 346 mm, while February is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec31133985205245258246286346227115
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan314
Feb132
Mar397
Apr8513
May20525
Jun24527
Jul25829
Aug24628
Sep28628
Oct34629
Nov22722
Dec11513

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tam Giang, 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 December 26 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around May 9. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 10 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around December 1. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 · 61%Sep 28 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4357
Feb5446
Mar6040
Apr5644
May2476
Jun1486
Jul1387
Aug1387
Sep1288
Oct1684
Nov2872
Dec3070

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 26, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:225:55
Feb11.76:236:05
Mar11.96:116:07
Apr12.25:546:05
May12.45:436:08
Jun12.55:446:15
Jul12.55:516:19
Aug12.35:556:12
Sep12.15:525:55
Oct11.85:505:38
Nov11.65:575:32
Dec11.56:115:40

Sunny days

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

Tam Giang 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 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Dec 28 to May 7. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the March peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedMar 1113 daysSep 91 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb10Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May4Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Tam Giang 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 100% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecoppressivemiserablemuggy
Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan019783
Feb014834
Mar037126
Apr002674
May00298
Jun00298
Jul00397
Aug00793
Sep001189
Oct002377
Nov024652
Dec1107317

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 Tam Giang is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Nov 15 to Mar 28. The windiest month is January, averaging about 21 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 27 to Nov 14, with October the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 29 · 21 km/hOct 12 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan21breezy
Feb20breezy
Mar18light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug17light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov17light breeze
Dec19light breeze

Hazard calendar for Tam Giang

In seasonPeak

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

Tam Giang sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Tam Giang's rainy season runs May–November, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Tam Giang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early January, Tam Giang 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 Tam Giang for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 9 · 7.6

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
Jan7.1good
Feb7.5good
Mar6.2good
Apr4.8fair
May3.2poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov4.1fair
Dec5.7good

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 Tam Giang for hot-weather activities is from late December to mid April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 26 · 8.0

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 Tam Giang, 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.

Tam Giang packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear, sun protection and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Tam Giang sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 25 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tam Giang

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 20 km away) is warmest in May at about 30°C and coldest in January near 26°C.

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

24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb26Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr29Tropical
May30Tropical
Jun30Tropical
Jul29Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec27Warm

UV index (midday) in Tam Giang 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 Tam Giang peaks around March 19 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 19UV 13Dec 15UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Tam Giang

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec75

Air quality in Tam Giang 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 Tam Giang is worst in December — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (May, 12 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateDec 1922 µg/m³May 2012 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar15Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May12Good
Jun13Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tam Giang 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. Tam Giang banks about 6,291 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan493
Feb454
Mar535
Apr550
May573
Jun540
Jul545
Aug542
Sep519
Oct528
Nov507
Dec506

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.

Tam Giang receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Jan 17 to May 28. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is October, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 96.5 kWhOct 264.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb6.0Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May5.6Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Tam Giang?

Tam Giang sits at 8.8°N, 105.2°E, 2 m above sea level, in Vietnam. The nearest listed city is Năm Căn, 21 km away.

Topography around Tam Giang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tam Giang has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 14 m around an average of 3 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 22 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 276 m.

The land around Tam Giang is covered by mangroves (61%) within 3 km, water (54%) and mangroves (28%) within 16 km, and water (72%) within 80 km.

3 km
14 m
16 km
22 m
80 km
276 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Năm Căn 21 km · Hưng Mỹ 25 km · Gành Hào 36 km · An Trạch 38 km · Trần Văn Thời 38 km · Cái Đôi Vàm 41 km · Cà Mau 42 km · Ấp Hô Phòng 54 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 Tam Giang (8.8°, 105.1833°, elevation 2 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).