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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Pāksē
Pāksē climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing6°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation2,114 mm152 wet days a year
15.12° N, 105.80° EElevation 105 mUTC+7 · Indochina Time
When to goPāksē · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low29° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Pāksē has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 34° and nights 25°. September is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 6°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 2,114 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (502 mm, 25 wet days) and February the driest (10 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in February to 68% in August.
Compared with Vientiane, the capital, Pāksē is 0.5° warmer on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · April
- Coldest nights
- 18° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- February · 15% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 01 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 14 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 31° | 33° | 34° | 34° | 32° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 30° |
| Average low | 18° | 20° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 22° | 20° | 18° |
| Precipitation | 2 mm | 10 mm | 35 mm | 76 mm | 239 mm | 310 mm | 470 mm | 502 mm | 311 mm | 131 mm | 25 mm | 3 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.9 | 1.6 | 5 | 8.6 | 17.2 | 19.8 | 23.5 | 24.6 | 21.8 | 15.3 | 8 | 5 |
| Cloud cover | 16% | 15% | 20% | 34% | 59% | 67% | 62% | 68% | 64% | 48% | 30% | 22% |
| Daylight | 11h 19 | 11h 39 | 12h 02 | 12h 28 | 12h 49 | 13h 01 | 12h 57 | 12h 38 | 12h 14 | 11h 49 | 11h 26 | 11h 14 |
| Month score | 71 | 65 | 50 | 39 | 25 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 36 | 41 | 61 | 69 |
ivMonth by month
Pāksē in every month
January71
31° / 18°
2 mm · 1.9 wet days
February65
33° / 20°
10 mm · 1.6 wet days
March50
34° / 23°
35 mm · 5 wet days
April39
34° / 25°
76 mm · 8.6 wet days
May25
32° / 25°
239 mm · 17.2 wet days
June30
30° / 24°
310 mm · 19.8 wet days
July34
30° / 24°
470 mm · 23.5 wet days
August33
29° / 24°
502 mm · 24.6 wet days
September36
29° / 23°
311 mm · 21.8 wet days
October41
29° / 22°
131 mm · 15.3 wet days
November61
30° / 20°
25 mm · 8 wet days
December69
30° / 18°
3 mm · 5 wet days