Climate and average weather in Tuyên Quang

In Tuyên Quang, the summers are oppressive, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are mild and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tuyên Quang typically varies from 14°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 36°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Tuyên Quang for warm-weather activities are from early January to early April and late October to late December.

Hottest
Jun
33°
Coldest
Jan
14°
Wettest
Aug
413 mm
Driest
Feb
23 mm
Rain / yr
2008 mm
168 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
35 m
21.8°N
Clearest
Nov
57% cloud

Tuyên Quang is former provincial capital city of Tuyen Quang province, Vietnam.

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

Tuyên Quang 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 early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.8 months, from April 18 to October 11, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Tuyên Quang is June, with an average high of 33°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.3 months, from December 10 to February 18, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in Tuyên Quang is January, with an average low of 14°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2014
Feb2215
Mar2518
Apr2922
May3225
Jun3326
Jul3226
Aug3226
Sep3125
Oct2922
Nov2519
Dec2215

How hot and cold Tuyên Quang 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, Tuyên Quang feels like about 42°C (around June 26). About 180 days a year carry some heat stress, and 107 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)
Jan20201414
Feb22221515
Mar25251818
Apr31292222
May37322425
Jun41332626
Jul41322626
Aug41322626
Sep38312525
Oct32292222
Nov26251919
Dec21221515

Average hourly temperature in Tuyên Quang

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

Tuyên Quang 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
Jan20° / 14°326.410.86.4
Feb22° / 15°235.911.26.7
Mar25° / 18°549.111.86.6
Apr29° / 22°9611.612.55.1
May32° / 25°25118.7133.3
Jun33° / 26°35921.713.32.5
Jul32° / 26°36524.513.22.4
Aug32° / 26°41325.312.72.4
Sep31° / 25°23220.412.13.2
Oct29° / 22°10312.311.55.4
Nov25° / 19°546.7117.2
Dec22° / 15°285.810.77.1

Chance of rain

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

Tuyên Quang gets about 2008 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 5.3 months, from around Apr 29 to Oct 6, peaking in August at about 82% 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 413 mm over about 25 wet days; February is the driest, with 23 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 16 · 82%Dec 19 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb216
Mar309
Apr3912
May6019
Jun7322
Jul7925
Aug8125
Sep6820
Oct3912
Nov237
Dec196

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tuyên Quang collects about 2008 mm of rain across 168 wet days — roughly 167 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 413 mm, while February is the driest at just 23 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec322354962513593654132321035428
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan326
Feb236
Mar549
Apr9612
May25119
Jun35922
Jul36525
Aug41325
Sep23220
Oct10312
Nov547
Dec286

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tuyên Quang, 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 3.9 months, ending around January 6. 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 January 7 and lasts for 8.1 months, ending around September 10. The cloudiest month is June, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 91% 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 7 · 53%Jun 15 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2575
Feb2674
Mar2575
Apr2872
May2476
Jun991
Jul1288
Aug1981
Sep3466
Oct5050
Nov5050
Dec4357

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 4, 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)
Jan10.86:445:32
Feb11.26:365:51
Mar11.86:136:04
Apr12.55:446:14
May13.05:246:27
Jun13.35:206:39
Jul13.25:286:41
Aug12.75:416:26
Sep12.15:505:57
Oct11.56:005:29
Nov11.06:165:13
Dec10.76:355:16

Sunny days

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

Tuyên Quang 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 4.0 months, from around Sep 6 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 86% fewer than the November peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedNov 311 daysJun 171 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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 Tuyên Quang, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.7 months, from around March 24 to November 12. 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 13 to March 23, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 71% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 22 · 73%May 8 · 0%humidmuggyoppressivemiserablecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan502121800
Feb3621231820
Mar13162430170
Apr2513234414
May002103256
Jun0000693
Jul0000199
Aug0000298
Sep00052372
Oct0310264616
Nov9172826191
Dec3727251010

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 14 · 6 km/hSep 4 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Tuyên Quang

In seasonPeak

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

Tuyên Quang'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 Tuyên Quang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 26 · 7.4

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
Jan6.4good
Feb6.7good
Mar6.6good
Apr5.1fair
May3.3poor
Jun2.5poor
Jul2.4poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct5.4fair
Nov7.2good
Dec7.1good

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 Tuyên Quang for hot-weather activities run from early March to early May and again from late September to early December, with a peak score in the first week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 6 · 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 Tuyên Quang, 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 20°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Tuyên Quang sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 22 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Tuyên Quang 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 Tuyên Quang peaks around June 20 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highHighExtremeVery highHighJun 20UV 13Jan 10UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb7High
Mar9Very high
Apr5High
May8Very high
Jun13Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct7Very high
Nov6High
Dec6High

Average hourly UV index in Tuyên Quang

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)
Jan50
Feb62.5
Mar74.5
Apr60
May7.54.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.50
Dec50

Air quality in Tuyên Quang 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 Tuyên Quang is worst in December — around 83 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.9× the cleanest month (July, 29 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyDec 2383 µg/m³Jul 2029 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan83Unhealthy
Feb78Unhealthy
Mar78Unhealthy
Apr72Unhealthy
May50Poor
Jun36Poor
Jul29Moderate
Aug32Moderate
Sep42Poor
Oct57Unhealthy
Nov73Unhealthy
Dec83Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tuyên Quang 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. Tuyên Quang banks about 5,219 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)
Jan213
Feb238
Mar353
Apr460
May558
Jun577
Jul597
Aug587
Sep539
Oct481
Nov361
Dec255

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.

Tuyên Quang receives about 3.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 4.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Apr 11 to Oct 22. The brightest month is June, averaging about 4.6 kWh/m² (bright).

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

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightJun 164.6 kWhJan 162.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.1Moderate
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr3.7Moderate
May4.5Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul4.5Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov3.0Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Tuyên Quang?

Tuyên Quang sits at 21.8°N, 105.2°E, 35 m above sea level, in Vietnam. The nearest listed city is Yên Bái, 33 km away.

Topography around Tuyên Quang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tuyên Quang has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 372 m around an average of 56 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 941 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,327 m.

The land around Tuyên Quang is covered by trees (53%) within 3 km, trees (86%) within 16 km, and trees (89%) within 80 km.

3 km
372 m
16 km
941 m
80 km
2,327 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Yên Bái 33 km · Phú Thọ 47 km · Thị Trấn Đại Từ 49 km · Việt Trì 59 km · Cổ Đô 62 km · Vĩnh Yên 70 km · Thái Nguyên 70 km · Bắc Kạn 73 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 Tuyên Quang (21.8236°, 105.2142°, elevation 35 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).