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 →
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, 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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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