The calendarThe hot season
หน้าร้อน
Forty degrees in the Hot valley, and the name is a coincidence.
What it is
March to May. The low ground bakes, the high ground is bearable, and the difference between them is two thousand vertical feet and about eight degrees.
The long version
Inference — heat on a motorcycle is a route-planning problem rather than a comfort one. The hottest riding on the circuit is the low, open, four-lane section of Route 108 between Chiang Mai and Hot, which has no shade and no altitude; the coolest is the ridge road on 1095 and the climb over 1263.
The practical consequence is the same as the smoke advice and reinforces it: start early, do the low sections before eleven, and take the long lunch that everyone here takes anyway. Dehydration on a bike arrives without a signal because the airflow keeps you from noticing you are sweating.
Runs with
- legMae Sariang to Hot — The hottest leg on the circuit.
- eventBurning season — The same months, from the air's side.
Named here by
- legMae Sariang to Hot — The eastern end is the hottest riding of the circuit.
- coffeeThe 7-Eleven — The month this stops being a joke.
- eventBurning season — The same months, from the thermometer's side.
- eventSongkran — The same days, from the thermometer.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | inference | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Monsoon — Wikipedia (en)
- Geography of Thailand — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there