WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020
Phnom Penh Climate — Averages by Month
What the weather in Phnom Penh, KHaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.
Month-by-month normals
| Month | Avg temperature | Avg rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | 27.3 °C | 17.2 mm |
| February | 28.5 °C | 9.9 mm |
| March | 29.9 °C | 40.9 mm |
| April | 30.5 °C · warmest | 87.2 mm |
| May | 29.8 °C | 161.5 mm |
| June | 29.0 °C | 161.3 mm |
| July | 28.5 °C | 161.6 mm |
| August | 28.4 °C | 185.2 mm |
| September | 28.0 °C | 254.7 mm · wettest |
| October | 27.6 °C | 252.1 mm |
| November | 27.5 °C | 83.8 mm |
| December | 26.9 °C · coldest | 29.7 mm |
How to read these numbers
These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Phnom Penh — centred at 11.50°N, 105.00°E. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.
“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.