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THE RAINING SEASON IN CHIANG MAI
During the raining season, the maximum temperatures stay over 30°C, evenings can be hot or cool depending if it has been raining or not. But what you lose in temperature, you gain in humidity, it doesn't make it more comfortable. Bad weather usually comes in 3 to 4 day periods, and alternates with fine weather. So, lucky people can spend a week under the sun most of their time while others will have rain, rain and more rain... that's a bit of a lottery. Rain comes in every form at anytime of the day and night: heavy downpour for an hour or two , small drizzle all day... better to bring your own raincoat, the plastic ponchoes sold here are real sweat factories.
- July, due to dry soils, the first heavy rains of the 'green' season can lead to spectacular floods. In Chiang Mai the night bazaar area can easily suffer, though it never last very long. You should still get a majority of dry days (not always sunny). If you're a photographer, skies can be very dramatic, especially when the sun goes down behind the Suthep mountain.
- August, dry days, rainy days are even its really up to your luck during which you end up. Rivers fill up, it's time to enjoy some rafting, in the Pai area, or to make nice photos of the many waterfalls (great in Doi Inthanon park).
- September, statisticaly the month with the most rain, not necesserally true. But floods can occur due this time to the soils being saturated with water.
- October, the period when the rainy season ends, you just wake up one day, the sky is bright blue and will remain like this for months. Prefer late october if it's your choice.
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