Dawei climate by month
What the weather is like
Dawei has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 32° and nights 24°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 27° and lows of 24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 4,730 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. September is the wettest month (643 mm, 28 wet days) and January the driest (5 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in February to 75% in August.
The sea reaches about 30° in May. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Naypyidaw, the capital, Dawei is 4.3° cooler on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · March
- Coldest nights
- 22° · January
- Wettest month
- September
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- February · 15% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 30° · May
- Longest day
- 12 h 57 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 18 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 31° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 30° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° |
| Average low | 22° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 22° |
| Precipitation | 5 mm | 16 mm | 39 mm | 116 mm | 468 mm | 963 mm | 993 mm | 1,151 mm | 643 mm | 276 mm | 53 mm | 7 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.5 | 4.2 | 5.8 | 10.8 | 20.5 | 25.2 | 27 | 25.2 | 28 | 23.3 | 7.5 | 1.2 |
| Cloud cover | 16% | 15% | 21% | 33% | 63% | 73% | 73% | 75% | 67% | 51% | 31% | 19% |
| Sea temperature | 28° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 28° |
| Daylight | 11h 23 | 11h 41 | 12h 02 | 12h 26 | 12h 46 | 12h 57 | 12h 53 | 12h 36 | 12h 13 | 11h 50 | 11h 29 | 11h 18 |
| Month score | 75 | 64 | 58 | 46 | 34 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 41 | 60 | 76 |