Angkor : When should you leave?

The climate of Cambodia, hot and humid, is conditioned by the action of the monsoons which determine the two seasons, dry (from November to the end of May) and wet (from the end of May to October). During the dry season, the weather in Angkor is characterized by a beautiful sunshine and a mercury oscillating between 15 °C and 35 °C. In the heart of the rainy season on the other hand, Angkor records average temperatures of 27 °C, which the monsoon can make feel higher.

When to go to Angkor? There are three tourist seasons in the Khmer city.

High tourist season: from November to February. Few tourists still come in November, making this month the best time to visit Angkor. Then, it spoils very quickly, the worst is by far the Chinese New Year when all Asia converges on the Khmer city. The advantage is that this period (especially December, January and February) is relatively cool, especially at night.

Middle tourist season: March to May. Corresponding to the dry season, this is perhaps the least pleasant period. It is very hot (the worst being in April), there is a lot of dust, and the number of tourists in Angkor is not negligible. To be avoided.

Low tourist season: from June to October. The rainy season is not what one often thinks: it rains (very hard) only a few hours a day and usually at the end of the day. The show is then superb, wherever you are. Children are wild, their usual playground having become a swimming pool, cities like Phnom Penh are paralyzed for a few hours, their streets become rivers and the skies announcing the storm are of a beauty to fall to the ground. The rest of the time, it is hot. The end of the rainy season is one of the most beautiful: it almost doesn't rain anymore and everything is green and flowery, and there are not many tourists yet... It is true that it is harder to move around, but the feeling of living an adventure is much more present.

To answer the question "when to go to Angkor?", the best answer is around October and November.