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Đà Lạt in January

goodbusy · a good time to go · the driest month of the year

The year in Đà Lạt

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  1. Đà Lạt in January: good, busy
  2. Đà Lạt in February: good, busy
  3. Đà Lạt in March: sweet spot
  4. Đà Lạt in April: good
  5. Đà Lạt in May: avoid
  6. Đà Lạt in June: avoid
  7. Đà Lạt in July: avoid
  8. Đà Lạt in August: avoid
  9. Đà Lạt in September: avoid
  10. Đà Lạt in October: avoid
  11. Đà Lạt in November: ok, busy
  12. Đà Lạt in December: ok, busy
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  • Busy
January at Đà Lạt is 22°C by day and 13°C at night, with 4 rainy days and about 10 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high22°C
Nightly low13°C
Feels like, afternoon22°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more4 · 28 mm
Humidity79%
Sunshine10.0 h/day
Daylight11.5 h/day
Crowds47 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, by Xuan Huong Lake, 22 km from the airport (DLI): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

January: busier than usual. Busiest in February, November and December; quietest in June, August and September.

Public holidays in January

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Đà Lạt in pictures

What to pack

  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 79%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and C and F and G plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Vietnamese đồng. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Vietnam: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Đà Lạt: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

January elsewhere

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