Ninh Binh (Trang An) weather by month

The best time to visit Ninh Binh (Trang An) is December to February — 86/100 in December, 22°C and 5 rainy days. The best season is winter, December to February (83/100 on average).

The worst month is August at 35/100 — sweltering, soaked, poor air quality. See August →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Vietnam →

Ninh Binh🇻🇳 Vietnam · Northern Vietnam · City86
  1. 80Jan
  2. 84Feb
  3. 77Mar
  4. 69Apr
  5. 55May
  6. 50Jun
  7. 43Jul
  8. 35Aug
  9. 40Sep
  10. 58Oct
  11. 75Nov
  12. 86Dec

Best season: December to February (83/100 on average) · worst August (35/100)

Days
22°C
Nights
15°C
Wet days
5
Sun
5.9 h
Humidity
74%
Daylight
11 h
Ninh Binh, Vietnam
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Ninh Binh, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Ninh Binh 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
Jan80A21°C8 d5 hPeak2
Feb84A22°C5 d5 hPeak2
Mar77B25°C8 d6 hPeak2
Apr69C29°C9 d9 hPeak2
May55D32°C16 d9 hPeak2
Jun50D34°C15 d9 hPeak1
Jul43F33°C19 d9 hBusy—
Aug35F32°C23 d8 hPeak1
Sep40F31°C22 d8 hPeak2
Oct58D28°C16 d7 hShoulder1
Nov75B26°C10 d7 hShoulder1
Dec86A22°C5 d6 hBusy—

What's on in Ninh Binh through the year

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

January
  • Bai Dinh spring pilgrimage25 Jan – 31 Mar (usually)Festival
  • Tết15 Jan – 28 Feb (usually)Holiday
March
  • Hoa Lư Festival25 Mar – 25 Apr (usually)Festival
April
  • Reunification Day and May Day30 Apr – 1 MayHoliday
May
  • Ripe rice at Tam Cốc20 May – 15 Jun (usually)Nature
August
  • National Day30 Aug – 3 Sep (usually)Holiday
September
  • Autumn window25 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)Season

Everything on in Ninh Binh through the year →

Crowds in Ninh Binh 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 Ninh Binh

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

Visas & entry

A guide to the Tam Coc boat tour, rowed by boatmen using their feet on the oars along the Ngo Dong River, recommends going early morning or late afternoon specifically to avoid the crowds that build through the middle of the day. Their reassurance for a detail that surprises first-timers: photographers and snack vendors approaching your boat mid-ride are a normal, expected part of the experience here, not a scam, and the surrounding rice paddies look completely different by season, vivid green in April-June and gold during the September-November harvest.
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Traveller notes on Ninh Binh

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

Ninh Binh's forum doesn't soften June: temperatures pushing toward 38C with brutal humidity are common enough that posters said it genuinely cuts into how much sightseeing you can pack into a day. Thunderstorms can roll through at any hour, usually brief downpours lasting a couple of hours rather than settling in for the whole day. The upside several posters mentioned is timing a visit around the local rice harvest, which adds a striking gold-and-green layer to the karst scenery that isn't there year-round.
RedRiverDeltaRegular · June · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters give genuinely mixed reports on December here: one visitor described the weather as glorious - dry and sunny nearly every day and pleasantly warm until the back half of the month, when nights turned much colder - while another had the opposite experience, with rain and fog obscuring the views. A recurring concern among posters is the famous rice paddies: their vivid emerald green fades to a muddy brown by December, well after the harvest, which changes the classic photogenic scenery many visitors expect from photos taken earlier in the year. Posters generally note that southern Vietnam runs warmer and drier than the north this time of year, positioning Ninh Binh's December visit as a genuine weather gamble rather than a guaranteed clear-and-green scene.
Tripadvisor community · December · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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