What is the driest area in Thailand?

What is the driest area in Thailand?

leeward sides
The driest areas are the leeward sides of the central valleys and the northernmost portion of south Thailand where mean annual rainfall is less than 1,200 mm (47 in).

Where is least rain in Thailand?

The northern inland areas have a milder climate, with slightly lower temperatures, and less rainy than the rest of the country. In the city of Chiang Mai the rains fall mainly between May and October, while between November and April the climate is rather dry.

Does Thailand have deserts?

There are no desert regions in Thailand.

What is the rainiest month in Thailand?

For most of Thailand, the most rainfall is accumulated in September and October making them the wettest months in Thailand. However, the east coast of Southern Thailand gets the heaviest rainfall in November.

Is Thailand water rich?

Only less than 40% of Thailand’s surface waters were in poor or very poor quality. Surface water quality varies widely in the different regions in Thailand. Surface water monitored in the northern, central, and southern regions appear to have poor quality, while water in the eastern region was fair.

Which is the driest place on the Earth?

The largest deserts on Earth are polar—the Antarctic and Arctic. The driest places on Earth are also cold deserts: Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys and Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Which is the coldest Desert in the world?

The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert in the world while the McMurdo Dry Valleys is the coldest polar desert on planet Earth. Both places are thought to resemble Mars and are both used as training grounds for astronauts. Valentina is a guide for Pedal Chile and is our geology expert.

How long has the Atacama Desert been dry?

The Atacama core is thought to have remained in a virtually permanently hyperarid state for some 15 million years, and there are no records of it having seen any significant rainfall in the past 500 years.

What’s the weather like in Thailand in the summer?

The climate of Thailand is tropical, with three distinct seasons: – a hot season from March to mid-May; – a rainy season due to the southwest monsoon, which generally runs from mid-May to October; – a dry and relatively cool season from November to February, when the north-east monsoon, coming from the Asian continent, prevails.