Battambang weather by month

The best time to visit Battambang is December to February — 82/100 in December, 30°C and 5 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, November to April (72/100 on average).

The worst month is September at 53/100 — sweltering, soaked, clean air. See September →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Cambodia →

Battambang🇰🇭 Cambodia · Southern Vietnam & Cambodia · City82
  1. 81Jan
  2. 77Feb
  3. 62Mar
  4. 55Apr
  5. 58May
  6. 64Jun
  7. 60Jul
  8. 63Aug
  9. 53Sep
  10. 56Oct
  11. 72Nov
  12. 82Dec

Best season: November to April (72/100 on average) · worst September (53/100)

Days
30°C
Nights
22°C
Wet days
5
Sun
9.5 h
Humidity
68%
Daylight
11 h
Battambang, Cambodia
Photo: SARET SAYON · Pexels

Battambang, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Battambang is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan81A32°C3 d10 hBusy2
Feb77B34°C3 d11 hBusy1
Mar62C36°C8 d11 hShoulder2
Apr55D36°C12 d11 hBusy3
May58D34°C22 d10 hShoulder1
Jun64C33°C19 d10 hShoulder1
Jul60C32°C23 d9 hShoulder—
Aug63C32°C22 d9 hShoulder—
Sep53D31°C26 d8 hQuiet1
Oct56D30°C23 d8 hBusy2
Nov72B30°C13 d9 hBusy3
Dec82A30°C5 d10 hBusy2

What's on in Battambang through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

March
  • Low water on the Siem Reap boat1 Mar – 30 Jun (usually)Closure
April
  • Khmer New Year13–16 AprFestival
September
  • Pchum Ben10 Sep – 10 Oct (usually)Festival
October
  • Bon Om Touk boat races25 Oct – 25 Nov (usually)Festival
November
  • Rice harvest on the plain15 Nov – 31 Jan (usually)Nature
  • Dry season15 Nov – 30 Apr (usually)Season

Everything on in Battambang through the year →

Crowds in Battambang in December

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Busyschool holidays in 5 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Good to know before you go to Battambang

Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.

Visas & entry

A rider's account of Battambang's bamboo train describes the $5 journey as loud, uncomfortable, and genuinely unlike any other train ride: a simple bamboo platform on two sets of wheels, powered by a small engine, clattering through the countryside on old rail tracks. Their tip for the single-track logistics: when two bamboo trains meet, the one with fewer passengers gets fully dismantled, platform, motor, and wheel axles, and lifted off the rails so the other can pass, then reassembled in minutes, a genuinely fun part of the experience rather than an inconvenience.
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Traveller notes on Battambang

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

Cambodia's forum is generally upbeat about June: it's the start of the rainy season, but posters were clear it doesn't rain every day, and the rain actually helps take the edge off the heat. The typical pattern is an hour-long deluge that floods the street briefly before life carries on as normal - keep your phone and passport dry and expect it, not dread it. Battambang specifically sits inland, and forum posters noted coastal areas take the brunt of the wetter weather, so this stretch of the country generally sees less rain than the coast at the same time of year.
CambodiaInlandTraveler · June · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters describe December as a genuinely good time here - dry heat without the oppressive humidity of other months, blue skies, a slight breeze and cool mornings that call for a light jumper before warming up into T-shirt-and-shorts weather by day. Posters note this coincides with fishing season and the rice fields turning a golden yellow, with no rain or flooding to worry about. Posters are candid, though, that year-to-year variation is real - one visitor might be sweating at night while another is shivering, since Cambodia's cool season isn't perfectly consistent - but the overall consensus is that December ranks among the most pleasant, comfortable months to visit.
Tripadvisor community · December · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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