Weekly note
Vientiane: a large golden building with a sky background

The numbers

Daily high30°C
Nightly low24°C
Feels like, afternoon37°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more22 · 381 mm
Humidity86%
Sunshine8.6 h/day
Daylight12.2 h/day
Crowds100 / 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

September: quiet. Busiest from December to February; quietest from May to October.

Vientiane in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 30°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 22 rainy days and 381 mm.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 86%; 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 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.

September elsewhere

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