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Siem Reap-forum threads on November weather call it the downhill side of the wet season - locals treat November through January as their cold season, bundling up for the mornings until around 9:30 or 10am even though visitors mostly find it warm rather than cold. The standard itinerary follows that same schedule: Angkor tours start around 8am while it's still cool, wrapping up by midday once it gets too warm to keep walking. The monsoon is winding down but still unpredictable enough that a poncho is standard advice, with any downpour usually arriving in a concentrated morning or evening window rather than spread through the day. Posters call the November-to-mid-January stretch one of the best climate windows of the year, which is exactly why it's also peak season. The record: 31.5C days feeling like a sticky 37C, 23.6C nights, 98mm across 12.9 days, 79 percent humidity and 9.4 hours of sun.

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.