Climate and average weather in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

In Thị Trấn Thuận Châu, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are mild and partly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu typically varies from 12°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 8°C or above 34°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Thị Trấn Thuận Châu for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and mid October to late December.

Hottest
May
30°
Coldest
Jan
12°
Wettest
Jul
428 mm
Driest
Feb
35 mm
Rain / yr
1933 mm
185 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
594 m
21.4°N
Clearest
Mar
47% cloud

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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 early January to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 6.3 months, from April 3 to October 11, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu is May, with an average high of 30°C and low of 22°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from December 4 to February 8, with daily high temperatures below 23°C. The coldest month of the year in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu is January, with an average low of 12°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2112
Feb2413
Mar2716
Apr2920
May3022
Jun3023
Jul2923
Aug2923
Sep2922
Oct2820
Nov2516
Dec2213

How hot and cold Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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, Thị Trấn Thuận Châu feels like about 34°C (around June 16). About 147 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in June.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan21211212
Feb24241313
Mar27271616
Apr31292020
May33302222
Jun34302323
Jul33292323
Aug33292323
Sep32292222
Oct29282020
Nov25251616
Dec22221313

Average hourly temperature in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

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 12°C.

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

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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
Jan21° / 12°397.110.87.0
Feb24° / 13°357.511.37.3
Mar27° / 16°7111.611.86.5
Apr29° / 20°11215.512.54.8
May30° / 22°20721.2133.5
Jun30° / 23°35726.513.32.9
Jul29° / 23°42827.613.23.0
Aug29° / 23°3632712.73.1
Sep29° / 22°18519.612.14.1
Oct28° / 20°609.611.56.3
Nov25° / 16°375.6117.5
Dec22° / 13°386.310.77.4

Chance of rain

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

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu gets about 1933 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 5.4 months, from around Apr 16 to Sep 26, peaking in August at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 21.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 428 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 35 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 6 · 91%Dec 21 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan237
Feb278
Mar3812
Apr5116
May6921
Jun8827
Jul8928
Aug8727
Sep6520
Oct3110
Nov206
Dec196

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Thị Trấn Thuận Châu collects about 1933 mm of rain across 185 wet days — roughly 161 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 428 mm, while February is the driest at just 35 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 59% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec393571112207357428363185603738
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan397
Feb358
Mar7112
Apr11216
May20721
Jun35727
Jul42828
Aug36327
Sep18520
Oct6010
Nov376
Dec386

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Thị Trấn Thuận Châu, 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 25 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around May 10. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 64% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 11 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around September 24. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 5 · 69%Jun 20 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb6139
Mar6436
Apr5743
May3268
Jun892
Jul991
Aug1585
Sep3268
Oct5050
Nov5743
Dec5446

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 7, 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)
Jan10.86:505:39
Feb11.36:425:58
Mar11.86:196:10
Apr12.55:516:20
May13.05:316:32
Jun13.35:276:44
Jul13.25:356:47
Aug12.75:476:32
Sep12.15:566:03
Oct11.56:055:35
Nov11.06:225:19
Dec10.76:405:22

Sunny days

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

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.1 months, from around Oct 6 to May 8. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 1 sunny days — about 93% fewer than the March peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightMar 615 daysJun 241 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov11Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around March 19 to November 2. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 3 to March 18, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 90% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 23 · 91%Jun 2 · 0%miserablecomfortablehumidmuggyoppressivedrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan474310000
Feb354123200
Mar1122412410
Apr151854220
May01425672
Jun00038116
Jul00008416
Aug00018910
Sep00316764
Oct262244260
Nov1429352020
Dec423817200

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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 4 · 5 km/hSep 3 · 3 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr4calm
May3calm
Jun3calm
Jul3calm
Aug3calm
Sep3calm
Oct3calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

In seasonPeak

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

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu's monsoon runs May–August, 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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to late March, with a peak score in the third week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 21 · 7.7

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
Jan7.0good
Feb7.3good
Mar6.5good
Apr4.8fair
May3.5fair
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep4.1fair
Oct6.3good
Nov7.5good
Dec7.4good

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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu for hot-weather activities run from mid February to late April and again from late September to early December, with a peak score in the second week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 10 · 7.0

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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu, 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 May (highs near 30°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 21°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Thị Trấn Thuận Châu sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu peaks around June 20 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highHighJun 20UV 13Dec 19UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan7High
Feb9Very high
Mar11Extreme
Apr9Very high
May10Extreme
Jun13Extreme
Jul13Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep10Very high
Oct9Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

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)
Jan62.5
Feb6.54
Mar7.55.5
Apr7.55
May85.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct74.5
Nov63.5
Dec5.50

Air quality in Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu is worst in April — around 99 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 8.1× the cleanest month (July, 12 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyModerateApr 1395 µg/m³Jul 2212 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan31Moderate
Feb41Poor
Mar73Unhealthy
Apr99Unhealthy
May32Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul12Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov26Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu 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. Thị Trấn Thuận Châu banks about 4,682 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan209
Feb236
Mar360
Apr431
May501
Jun496
Jul504
Aug500
Sep467
Oct426
Nov323
Dec230

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.

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.1 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around Feb 24 to Oct 7. The brightest month is April, averaging about 5.2 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is January, down near 3.1 kWh/m² — roughly 40% less than the April peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightApr 255.3 kWhJan 113.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.1Moderate
Feb3.9Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.3Bright
Aug4.4Bright
Sep4.5Bright
Oct4.0Moderate
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec3.1Moderate

Where is Thị Trấn Thuận Châu?

Thị Trấn Thuận Châu sits at 21.4°N, 103.7°E, 594 m above sea level, in Vietnam. The nearest listed city is Sơn La, 27 km away.

SapaLai ChâuThị Trấn Phố Lu

Topography around Thị Trấn Thuận Châu

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Thị Trấn Thuận Châu.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Thị Trấn Thuận Châu has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 505 m around an average of 699 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,610 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,825 m.

The land around Thị Trấn Thuận Châu is covered by trees (73%) within 3 km, trees (76%) within 16 km, and trees (69%) and grassland (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
505 m
16 km
1,610 m
80 km
2,825 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Sơn La 27 km · Ít Ong 36 km · Dien Bien Phu 69 km · Mường Lay 85 km · Nghĩa Lộ 87 km · Sapa 102 km · Lai Châu 109 km · Thị Trấn Phố Lu 111 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 Thị Trấn Thuận Châu (21.4385°, 103.69°, elevation 594 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).