Wildfish Media — Typhoon and Travel Weather in Asia

Vietnam is roughly 1,650 kilometres from top to bottom, which is about the distance from London to Athens, and almost every article about its rainy season treats it as one country with one wet season. That single mistake is responsible for most of the ruined trips. The country has three rain regimes, and two of them are close to opposite. There is a month in which the driest of the three cities below is the one that will be underwater eleven weeks later. If you take one thing from this page, take that: in Vietnam, the answer to when it rains is meaningless until you say where. The figures below are monthly averages from Weather Spark, taken from the same source for all three cities so that they can actually be compared. A great many published comparisons quietly mix stations and periods, which is how you end up with tables that contradict each other. The north: Hanoi and the summer monsoon Hanoi runs on the classic southwest monsoon. Rain arrives in May, peaks in high summer and i...