Climate
Mandalay features a tropical wet and dry climate under the Köppen climate classification. Mandalay features noticeably warmer and cooler periods of the year. Average temperatures in January, the coolest month, hovers around 21 C while the warmest month, April, averages 31 C. Mandalay is very hot in the months of April and May, with average high temperatures easily exceeding 35 C. It is not uncommon to see high temperatures surpass 40 C during these two months in the city. Mandalay also features wet and dry seasons of nearly equal length, with the wet season running from May through October and the dry season covering the remaining six months.
| Climate data for Mandalay (1961-1990) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 35 (95) |
37 (99) |
42 (108) |
45 (113) |
45 (113) |
41 (106) |
41 (106) |
39 (102) |
39 (102) |
38 (100) |
36 (97) |
33 (91) |
45 (113) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 28.6 (83.5) |
32.1 (89.8) |
35.8 (96.4) |
38.4 (101.1) |
36.8 (98.2) |
34.2 (93.6) |
34.3 (93.7) |
32.3 (90.1) |
33.1 (91.6) |
32.2 (90.0) |
30.2 (86.4) |
28.2 (82.8) |
33.02 (91.43) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) |
23.5 (74.3) |
27.8 (82.0) |
31.4 (88.5) |
31.3 (88.3) |
30.0 (86.0) |
30.1 (86.2) |
28.8 (83.8) |
29.0 (84.2) |
27.9 (82.2) |
24.8 (76.6) |
21.5 (70.7) |
27.26 (81.06) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) |
14.9 (58.8) |
19.7 (67.5) |
24.4 (75.9) |
25.8 (78.4) |
25.8 (78.4) |
25.8 (78.4) |
25.2 (77.4) |
24.9 (76.8) |
23.5 (74.3) |
19.4 (66.9) |
14.8 (58.6) |
21.46 (70.62) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 5 (41) |
8 (46) |
12 (54) |
17 (63) |
20 (68) |
20 (68) |
20 (68) |
18 (64) |
20 (68) |
16 (61) |
11 (52) |
6 (43) |
5 (41) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 4.0 (0.157) |
2.0 (0.079) |
1.0 (0.039) |
40.0 (1.575) |
138.0 (5.433) |
116.0 (4.567) |
83.0 (3.268) |
136.0 (5.354) |
150.0 (5.906) |
125.0 (4.921) |
38.0 (1.496) |
6.0 (0.236) |
839 (33.03) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 3.3 | 8.3 | 7.2 | 5.9 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 53 |
| Source #1: World Meteoroglogical Organization., Hong Kong Observatory. | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Weatherbase (record highs and lows). | |||||||||||||
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