Poipet climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Poipet?

Poipet has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 27.3 °C and it receives 1,220 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Poipet?

The hottest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2024, reaching 41.5 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Poipet?

The coldest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 12 January 1955, at 10.1 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Poipet?

Almost never: Poipet sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Poipet warmed?

Yes: Poipet warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Poipet?

The wettest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 23 September 1963, with 214 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Poipet?

The windiest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 12 November 1973, with winds reaching 32.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Poipet?

The warmest month in Poipet is April (29.4 °C on average); the coldest is December (25.1 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Poipet?

Poipet receives on average 1,220 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 181 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Poipet?

Poipet gets on average 10.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,650 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Poipet (Cambodia) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 27.3 °C and it receives 1,220 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is April (29.4 °C on average) and the coldest is December (25.1 °C). Rainfall peaks in September.

Poipet averages 0 frost days, 301 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 181 rainy days per year.

Poipet has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.24 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 41.5 °C (on 30 April 2024) and the coldest 10.1 °C (on 12 January 1955).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

PoipetBanteay Meanchey

coords: 13.66°, 102.56°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthAprilColdest monthDecemberWettest monthSeptemberDriest monthDecember

Mean daily temperature

27.3°C

Average daily high

32.2°C

Average daily low

23.7°C

Annual rainfall

1,220mm

Sunshine / day

10.0h

Mean relative humidity

74%

Average peak wind

13.6km/h

Seasonal range

4.3°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

301 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

181 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

36.7 °C

Average feels-like low

27.1 °C

Average peak gust

32.7 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

332 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.7 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.1 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.75 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

41.5 °C

30 April 2024

Coldest day

10.1 °C

12 January 1955

Wettest day

214 mm

23 September 1963

Windiest day

32.3 km/h

12 November 1973

Strongest gust

83.5 km/h

3 August 2019

Hottest feels-like

47.6 °C

21 March 1953

Coldest feels-like

5.7 °C

12 January 1955

Sunniest day

12.6 h

7 July 1999

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	39.0 °C2 March 2025	14.9 °C13 January 2025	27.8 °C	1,354 mm	320
2024	41.5 °C30 April 2024	17.5 °C23 December 2024	29.1 °C	994 mm	352
2023	40.8 °C6 May 2023	16.4 °C23 December 2023	28.6 °C	1,202 mm	340
2022	38.9 °C28 April 2022	16.0 °C19 December 2022	27.6 °C	1,557 mm	310
2021	38.8 °C3 April 2021	14.0 °C12 January 2021	27.8 °C	1,364 mm	312
2020	39.8 °C1 April 2020	16.2 °C21 December 2020	28.4 °C	1,196 mm	331
2019	40.5 °C23 March 2019	16.5 °C7 December 2019	28.8 °C	1,033 mm	345
2018	39.0 °C14 April 2018	15.9 °C6 February 2018	28.2 °C	1,322 mm	345
2017	38.0 °C23 April 2017	14.8 °C20 December 2017	28.2 °C	1,210 mm	338
2016	41.0 °C11 April 2016	14.4 °C26 January 2016	28.7 °C	1,127 mm	341
2015	40.2 °C21 April 2015	16.7 °C17 January 2015	28.6 °C	1,057 mm	340
2014	38.4 °C21 April 2014	12.9 °C25 January 2014	28.0 °C	1,032 mm	332
2013	40.4 °C6 April 2013	14.9 °C28 December 2013	27.9 °C	1,442 mm	303
2012	39.5 °C26 April 2012	18.8 °C9 January 2012	28.4 °C	1,182 mm	347
2011	38.1 °C18 April 2011	15.9 °C12 December 2011	27.4 °C	1,398 mm	308
2010	39.9 °C13 April 2010	18.4 °C18 December 2010	28.5 °C	1,256 mm	332
2009	38.4 °C24 April 2009	14.0 °C11 January 2009	27.6 °C	1,182 mm	329
2008	37.7 °C17 April 2008	16.6 °C2 January 2008	27.5 °C	1,304 mm	313
2007	38.2 °C3 April 2007	16.9 °C29 January 2007	27.8 °C	1,291 mm	324
2006	38.6 °C13 March 2006	16.8 °C24 December 2006	27.9 °C	1,338 mm	328
2005	39.5 °C12 April 2005	15.6 °C2 January 2005	28.0 °C	1,100 mm	327
2004	39.0 °C15 April 2004	16.5 °C25 January 2004	27.9 °C	992 mm	340
2003	38.8 °C21 April 2003	16.3 °C21 December 2003	27.8 °C	1,118 mm	331
2002	38.1 °C5 April 2002	18.1 °C4 January 2002	28.0 °C	1,259 mm	330
2001	39.3 °C11 April 2001	15.5 °C23 December 2001	27.6 °C	1,323 mm	312
2000	38.5 °C4 April 2000	15.8 °C2 February 2000	27.4 °C	1,506 mm	316
1999	38.1 °C11 March 1999	11.7 °C24 December 1999	27.1 °C	1,515 mm	298
1998	40.3 °C16 April 1998	16.8 °C14 December 1998	28.4 °C	1,057 mm	333
1997	38.5 °C24 March 1997	16.2 °C13 January 1997	27.8 °C	1,168 mm	333
1996	38.7 °C22 March 1996	15.2 °C1 January 1996	27.2 °C	1,365 mm	296
1995	38.6 °C25 April 1995	15.0 °C6 January 1995	27.4 °C	1,271 mm	309
1994	37.9 °C5 May 1994	16.6 °C26 January 1994	27.4 °C	1,275 mm	321
1993	38.2 °C5 April 1993	14.6 °C29 January 1993	27.1 °C	918 mm	309
1992	38.7 °C13 April 1992	16.0 °C17 January 1992	27.3 °C	1,013 mm	289
1991	38.7 °C18 April 1991	18.4 °C30 December 1991	27.5 °C	1,173 mm	303
1990	38.9 °C23 April 1990	16.5 °C6 December 1990	27.6 °C	1,108 mm	319
1989	39.4 °C23 April 1989	16.7 °C5 December 1989	27.4 °C	1,122 mm	317
1988	38.5 °C19 March 1988	16.8 °C12 December 1988	27.4 °C	1,280 mm	290
1987	39.3 °C12 April 1987	15.3 °C7 December 1987	27.7 °C	1,130 mm	308
1986	38.4 °C2 April 1986	13.5 °C3 March 1986	27.1 °C	1,282 mm	294
1985	39.0 °C12 April 1985	15.5 °C17 December 1985	27.2 °C	1,171 mm	317
1984	38.2 °C20 March 1984	15.0 °C9 January 1984	27.1 °C	1,123 mm	306
1983	39.9 °C14 April 1983	13.8 °C24 January 1983	27.6 °C	1,226 mm	293
1982	37.9 °C24 March 1982	13.4 °C29 December 1982	27.1 °C	1,046 mm	304
1981	37.5 °C25 February 1981	15.0 °C14 January 1981	27.1 °C	1,280 mm	300
1980	39.6 °C3 May 1980	16.3 °C24 January 1980	27.6 °C	1,199 mm	312
1979	38.5 °C6 April 1979	16.4 °C27 December 1979	27.7 °C	1,153 mm	329
1978	38.7 °C23 March 1978	16.8 °C24 January 1978	27.5 °C	1,314 mm	318
1977	39.8 °C18 April 1977	16.1 °C23 February 1977	27.2 °C	1,029 mm	323
1976	38.0 °C23 April 1976	13.2 °C16 January 1976	26.7 °C	1,384 mm	294
1975	38.7 °C29 April 1975	12.2 °C30 December 1975	26.8 °C	1,285 mm	288
1974	35.7 °C9 March 1974	14.2 °C2 January 1974	26.5 °C	1,402 mm	289
1973	38.9 °C12 April 1973	13.5 °C27 December 1973	27.1 °C	1,214 mm	295
1972	38.3 °C28 May 1972	14.8 °C16 January 1972	26.9 °C	1,430 mm	308
1971	36.7 °C8 April 1971	13.4 °C5 January 1971	26.1 °C	1,107 mm	250
1970	37.1 °C28 February 1970	16.4 °C2 January 1970	26.9 °C	1,141 mm	284
1969	37.9 °C21 April 1969	15.9 °C11 December 1969	27.2 °C	1,085 mm	275
1968	37.6 °C3 April 1968	15.2 °C5 January 1968	27.1 °C	892 mm	327
1967	37.3 °C11 April 1967	11.6 °C17 January 1967	26.4 °C	1,051 mm	268
1966	37.2 °C25 March 1966	16.3 °C1 January 1966	26.8 °C	1,584 mm	249
1965	37.7 °C23 April 1965	13.7 °C22 January 1965	26.9 °C	1,226 mm	304
1964	39.3 °C6 April 1964	14.8 °C19 December 1964	27.1 °C	1,067 mm	296
1963	38.8 °C23 April 1963	12.1 °C15 January 1963	26.5 °C	1,406 mm	270
1962	38.2 °C5 April 1962	13.4 °C28 January 1962	26.5 °C	1,250 mm	271
1961	37.9 °C8 April 1961	13.5 °C17 January 1961	27.0 °C	1,097 mm	287
1960	39.3 °C25 April 1960	13.4 °C3 January 1960	27.1 °C	1,263 mm	297
1959	37.9 °C27 April 1959	16.3 °C13 January 1959	27.1 °C	1,096 mm	291
1958	39.4 °C25 April 1958	16.2 °C25 November 1958	27.2 °C	1,009 mm	282
1957	37.9 °C12 March 1957	15.2 °C3 January 1957	26.9 °C	1,456 mm	290
1956	37.7 °C24 March 1956	13.1 °C19 January 1956	26.4 °C	1,403 mm	262
1955	38.7 °C18 April 1955	10.1 °C12 January 1955	26.5 °C	1,327 mm	287
1954	38.4 °C16 April 1954	13.9 °C16 December 1954	26.8 °C	986 mm	304
1953	35.5 °C15 April 1953	14.9 °C12 December 1953	26.0 °C	1,781 mm	238
1952	37.6 °C17 February 1952	14.4 °C10 December 1952	26.6 °C	1,468 mm	275
1951	38.0 °C2 April 1951	15.3 °C2 January 1951	26.9 °C	885 mm	285
1950	37.8 °C24 April 1950	16.3 °C15 December 1950	26.6 °C	1,110 mm	270
1949	37.1 °C24 February 1949	12.7 °C16 January 1949	26.6 °C	1,046 mm	274
1948	36.6 °C24 May 1948	13.8 °C2 January 1948	26.7 °C	1,018 mm	265
1947	36.7 °C24 March 1947	14.6 °C21 December 1947	27.0 °C	1,083 mm	299
1946	37.8 °C28 March 1946	15.0 °C8 January 1946	26.6 °C	1,065 mm	302
1945	37.2 °C3 March 1945	15.1 °C18 January 1945	26.3 °C	1,310 mm	250
1944	38.4 °C8 April 1944	13.1 °C21 December 1944	26.7 °C	1,276 mm	271
1943	36.7 °C26 March 1943	14.5 °C13 January 1943	25.8 °C	1,504 mm	220
1942	36.0 °C23 February 1942	14.8 °C18 December 1942	26.3 °C	996 mm	258
1941	37.3 °C1 March 1941	17.2 °C26 December 1941	26.5 °C	1,452 mm	225
1940	38.1 °C11 March 1940	14.7 °C3 January 1940	26.1 °C	1,443 mm	215

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

32.8 °C

+0.6 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

320 d/yr

+19

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1354 mm

+134 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	31.5 °C	-0.1 °C	0 mm	-10 mm
Feb	35.2 °C	+1.7 °C	11 mm	-9 mm
Mar	35.9 °C	+1.0 °C	50 mm	-2 mm
Apr	36.1 °C	+1.0 °C	80 mm	+0 mm
May	33.2 °C	-0.4 °C	277 mm	+135 mm
Jun	32.8 °C	+0.4 °C	111 mm	-29 mm
Jul	32.0 °C	+0.4 °C	185 mm	+28 mm
Aug	32.4 °C	+1.1 °C	137 mm	-38 mm
Sep	31.3 °C	+0.4 °C	278 mm	+36 mm
Oct	31.4 °C	+0.7 °C	120 mm	-36 mm
Nov	29.9 °C	-0.7 °C	95 mm	+55 mm
Dec	32.1 °C	+1.6 °C	9 mm	+3 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

39.0 °C

2 Mar 2025

Coldest day

14.9 °C

13 Jan 2025

Wettest day

37.2 mm

26 May 2025

Windiest day

27.5 km/h

19 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

66.6 km/h

23 Jul 2025

Hottest feels-like

44.9 °C

21 Apr 2025

Coldest feels-like

12.6 °C

13 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

12.3 h

1 Aug 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Poipet?

Poipet has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 27.3 °C and it receives 1,220 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Poipet?

The hottest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2024, reaching 41.5 °C.

What is the coldest day in Poipet?

The coldest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 12 January 1955, at 10.1 °C.

Does it snow in Poipet?

Almost never: Poipet sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Poipet warmed?

Yes: Poipet warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Poipet?

The wettest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 23 September 1963, with 214 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Poipet?

The windiest day measured in Poipet between 1940 and 2025 was 12 November 1973, with winds reaching 32.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Poipet?

The warmest month in Poipet is April (29.4 °C on average); the coldest is December (25.1 °C).

How much does it rain in Poipet?

Poipet receives on average 1,220 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 181 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Poipet?

Poipet gets on average 10.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,650 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Poipet?

Yes: Poipet has on average 332 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Poipet?

In Poipet, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 47.6 °C on 21 March 1953, and the lowest was 5.7 °C on 12 January 1955.

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