Riding weather · Laos
Luang Prabang motorcycle weather by month
On our rules, the best months to ride in the Luang Prabang area are May and October to January.
The driest months are February, March and December; the wettest is August, with about 348 mm of rain over 27 rain days.
Days are warmest in April (average high 34 °C) and nights coldest in January (average low 16 °C).
Month by month
Luang Prabang and the Mekong hills.
- JanGood26°/16°26 mm
- FebMixed30°/18°20 mm
- MarMixed33°/21°21 mm
- AprPoor34°/23°69 mm
- MayGood34°/24°96 mm
- JunMixed32°/24°131 mm
- JulMixed31°/24°235 mm
- AugPoor30°/24°348 mm
- SeptMixed30°/23°202 mm
- OctGood29°/22°85 mm
- NovGood29°/20°21 mm
- DecGood26°/17°20 mm
Average high/low in °C and monthly rain. How we rate months
- Burning season: fields and forest are burned in the dry season and smoke haze covers northern Laos as well as northern Thailand, usually worst in March. Source
Show the numbers
| Month | Riding | High | Low | Rain | Rain days | PM2.5 | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Good | 26 °C 79 °F | 16 °C 61 °F | 26 mm | 4 | 14 | |
| February | Mixed | 30 °C 85 °F | 18 °C 64 °F | 20 mm | 2 | 20 | see note |
| March | Mixed | 33 °C 92 °F | 21 °C 70 °F | 21 mm | 4 | 52 | hazy |
| April | Poor | 34 °C 94 °F | 23 °C 74 °F | 69 mm | 10 | 57 | heavy haze |
| May | Good | 34 °C 92 °F | 24 °C 76 °F | 96 mm | 16 | 15 | |
| June | Mixed | 32 °C 90 °F | 24 °C 76 °F | 131 mm | 20 | 8 | wet |
| July | Mixed | 31 °C 88 °F | 24 °C 75 °F | 235 mm | 24 | 7 | wet |
| August | Poor | 30 °C 86 °F | 24 °C 74 °F | 348 mm | 27 | 7 | very wet |
| September | Mixed | 30 °C 86 °F | 23 °C 74 °F | 202 mm | 22 | 7 | wet |
| October | Good | 29 °C 84 °F | 22 °C 71 °F | 85 mm | 12 | 9 | |
| November | Good | 29 °C 83 °F | 20 °C 68 °F | 21 mm | 4 | 10 | |
| December | Good | 26 °C 79 °F | 17 °C 62 °F | 20 mm | 3 | 11 |
Rain days: days with at least 1 mm. Averages of daily values, 2015 to 2024, for Luang Prabang, corrected to riding elevation. Reanalysis smooths mountains and local showers, so read these as a regional picture rather than a forecast. PM2.5 in µg/m³ from the CAMS global model, 2022 to 2025; it tends to read lower than ground monitors during smoke episodes.
Climate data: Open-Meteo / ERA5, 2015 to 2024 (CC BY 4.0).
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