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Vientiane in February

sweet spot busy · the best month to go

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  1. Vientiane in January: sweet spot, busy
  2. Vientiane in February: sweet spot, busy
  3. Vientiane in March: ok
  4. Vientiane in April: avoid
  5. Vientiane in May: avoid
  6. Vientiane in June: avoid
  7. Vientiane in July: avoid
  8. Vientiane in August: avoid
  9. Vientiane in September: avoid
  10. Vientiane in October: ok
  11. Vientiane in November: good
  12. Vientiane in December: sweet spot, busy
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February at Vientiane is 30°C by day and 19°C at night, with 1 rainy day and about 10 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high30°C
Nightly low19°C
Feels like, afternoon32°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more1 · 17 mm
Humidity64%
Sunshine10.3 h/day
Daylight11.6 h/day
Days over 35°C1
Crowds65 / 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 the Mekong, 7 km from the airport (VTE): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

February: busy. Busiest from December to February; quietest from May to October.

Vientiane in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 30°C.
  • Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.

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

Before you go

Type A and B and C and E and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Lao kip. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Laos: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

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

February elsewhere

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