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We consider natural inflation in a warm inflation framework with a temperature-dependent dissipative coefficient $Gamma propto T^3$. Natural inflation can be compatible with the Planck 2018 results with such warm assistance. With no a priori assumptions on the dissipative effects magnitude, we find that the Planck results prefer a weak dissipative regime for our benchmark scale $f=5 M_{rm pl}$, which lies outside the $2sigma$ region in the cold case. The inflation starts in the cold regime and evolves with a growing thermal fluctuation that dominates over quantum fluctuation before the end of the inflation. The observed spectral tilt puts stringent constraints on the models parameter space. We find that $f< 1 M_{rm pl}$ is excluded. A possible origin of such dissipative coefficient from axion-like coupling to gauge fields and tests of the model are also discussed.
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