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Mae Hong Son Loop motorcycle weather by month
On our rules, the best months to ride in the Mae Hong Son Loop area are November to January.
The driest months are February, March and December; the wettest is August, with about 296 mm of rain over 29 rain days.
Days are warmest in April (average high 36 °C) and nights coldest in January (average low 16 °C).
Month by month
Pai and Mae Hong Son, on the 600 km loop from Chiang Mai.
- JanGood28°/16°25 mm
- FebMixed31°/18°7 mm
- MarMixed35°/21°10 mm
- AprMixed36°/23°40 mm
- MayMixed34°/24°158 mm
- JunMixed30°/23°208 mm
- JulPoor29°/23°261 mm
- AugPoor29°/23°296 mm
- SeptMixed30°/23°222 mm
- OctMixed29°/22°138 mm
- NovGood29°/20°39 mm
- DecGood28°/17°13 mm
Average high/low in °C and monthly rain. How we rate months
- Burning season: fires in the dry season fill the northern valleys with smoke haze, usually worst in March. Air quality can be poor for days at a time. Source
Show the numbers
| Month | Riding | High | Low | Rain | Rain days | PM2.5 | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Good | 28 °C 83 °F | 16 °C 61 °F | 25 mm | 4 | 11 | |
| February | Mixed | 31 °C 88 °F | 18 °C 64 °F | 7 mm | 1 | 15 | see note |
| March | Mixed | 35 °C 95 °F | 21 °C 70 °F | 10 mm | 2 | 28 | hot |
| April | Mixed | 36 °C 97 °F | 23 °C 74 °F | 40 mm | 6 | 27 | hot |
| May | Mixed | 34 °C 93 °F | 24 °C 75 °F | 158 mm | 16 | 11 | wet |
| June | Mixed | 30 °C 86 °F | 23 °C 74 °F | 208 mm | 24 | 4 | wet |
| July | Poor | 29 °C 85 °F | 23 °C 73 °F | 261 mm | 27 | 3 | very wet |
| August | Poor | 29 °C 84 °F | 23 °C 73 °F | 296 mm | 29 | 4 | very wet |
| September | Mixed | 30 °C 85 °F | 23 °C 73 °F | 222 mm | 25 | 5 | wet |
| October | Mixed | 29 °C 85 °F | 22 °C 71 °F | 138 mm | 18 | 7 | wet |
| November | Good | 29 °C 85 °F | 20 °C 67 °F | 39 mm | 7 | 9 | |
| December | Good | 28 °C 83 °F | 17 °C 63 °F | 13 mm | 3 | 10 |
Rain days: days with at least 1 mm. Averages of daily values, 2015 to 2024, for Pai and Mae Hong Son, 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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