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Weather extremes
How extreme does Chiang Rai's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Chiang Rai has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Chiang Rai has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 15°F hotter than a normal May afternoon in Chiang Rai (typical high near 92°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 21°F colder than a normal January night in Chiang Rai (typical low near 56°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 55% of a typical August's rain in a single day (Chiang Rai averages roughly 14.5 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Chiang Rai's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — May's 107°F is about 15°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Chiang Rai, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.