Climate and average weather in Alaverdi

In Alaverdi, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Alaverdi typically varies from -8°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 28°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Alaverdi for warm-weather activities is from late June to mid September.

Hottest
Aug
23°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
May
164 mm
Driest
Jan
26 mm
Rain / yr
823 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
41.1°N
Clearest
Dec
51% cloud

Alaverdi is city or town in Armenia.

Density
675/km²
people per km²
Founded
1899

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Alaverdi weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Alaverdi, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 28 to September 24, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Alaverdi is August, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 28 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Alaverdi is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-8
Feb2-7
Mar6-2
Apr113
May168
Jun2011
Jul2314
Aug2314
Sep1910
Oct146
Nov8-1
Dec3-6

How hot and cold Alaverdi really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -11°C (around January 16), with roughly 142 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 46 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan11-11-8
Feb22-9-7
Mar66-4-2
Apr111123
May161678
Jun20201111
Jul23231414
Aug23231414
Sep19191010
Oct141466
Nov88-1-1
Dec33-9-6

Average hourly temperature in Alaverdi

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Alaverdi weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -8°265.86.29.40.0
Feb / -7°357.47.410.40.0
Mar / -3°8114.21011.70.5
Apr11° / 133205.113.12.1
May16° / 16422.80.414.33.5
Jun20° / 11°10516.9014.95.3
Jul23° / 14°5610.8014.76.7
Aug23° / 14°409.1013.67.1
Sep19° / 10°5410.6012.36.0
Oct14° / 6411.61.110.94.1
Nov / -1°397.44.39.71.4
Dec / -6°265.459.10.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Alaverdi gets about 823 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.0 months, from around Mar 8 to Jul 8, peaking in May at about 77% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 26.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 164 mm over about 23 wet days; January is the driest, with 26 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 4 · 77%Dec 26 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan186
Feb277
Mar4514
Apr6720
May7323
Jun5717
Jul3511
Aug299
Sep3611
Oct3612
Nov267
Dec185

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Alaverdi collects about 823 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 69 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 164 mm, while January is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec263581133164105564054643926
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2666
Feb3577
Mar811410
Apr133205
May164230
Jun105170
Jul56110
Aug4090
Sep54110
Oct64121
Nov3974
Dec2655

Snow in Alaverdi

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Alaverdi averages about 40 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 11 to May 11 — about 7 months.

March is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 55 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 190 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonMar 19
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan622
Feb737
Mar1055
Apr529
May01
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov419
Dec524

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Alaverdi, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 16 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around October 22. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around February 23 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around June 15. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 7 · 61%May 1 · 27%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb4951
Mar4060
Apr3268
May3367
Jun4753
Jul5347
Aug5941
Sep5347
Oct4951
Nov5446
Dec5545

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 18, brings about 15 hours of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.48:305:51
Feb10.48:056:27
Mar11.77:217:01
Apr13.16:297:34
May14.35:498:06
Jun14.95:338:30
Jul14.75:468:28
Aug13.66:167:55
Sep12.36:487:04
Oct10.97:206:13
Nov9.77:575:36
Dec9.18:265:29

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Alaverdi averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Oct 5 to Feb 25. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 4 sunny days — about 67% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2714 daysMay 34 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar8Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul10Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec13Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Alaverdi, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 10% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 12 · 100%Jul 24 · 88%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9640
Jun66322
Jul335710
Aug42518
Sep80192
Oct9910
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Alaverdi is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmDec 28 · 6 km/hOct 18 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Alaverdi

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Alaverdi's rainy season runs March–June, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Alaverdi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Alaverdi throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid September, Alaverdi is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Alaverdi for general outdoor tourist activities is from late June to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 7.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.5poor
Apr2.1poor
May3.5fair
Jun5.3fair
Jul6.7good
Aug7.1good
Sep6.0good
Oct4.1fair
Nov1.4poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Alaverdi for hot-weather activities is from mid July to late August, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 6.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Alaverdi, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 23°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 1°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Alaverdi sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Alaverdi by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Alaverdi peaks around June 22 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 22UV 9Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Alaverdi

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr6.50
May84.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep62
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Alaverdi by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Alaverdi is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (October, 11 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJul 1619 µg/m³Oct 2311 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb15Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr17Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov11Good
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Alaverdi typically lasts about 224 days, from around April 2 to November 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 27 to October 24.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2610%Apr 250%Apr 2790%Oct 2490%Nov 1150%Dec 1410%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan431
Feb828
Mar2731
Apr7528
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct948
Nov4330
Dec1131

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Alaverdi banks about 903 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May54
Jun167
Jul258
Aug264
Sep142
Oct19
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Alaverdi receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 11 to Sep 14. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 65% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 216.1 kWhDec 122.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.3Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun6.0Intense
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct3.1Moderate
Nov2.4Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Alaverdi?

Alaverdi sits at 41.1°N, 44.7°E, 0 m above sea level, in Armenia. The nearest listed city is Vanadzor, 36 km away.

VanadzorDilijanIjevanGazakhTsaghkadzorHrazdan

Topography around Alaverdi

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Alaverdi.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Alaverdi has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 891 m around an average of 1,000 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,027 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,857 m.

The land around Alaverdi is covered by trees (55%) and grassland (37%) within 3 km, trees (56%) and grassland (39%) within 16 km, and grassland (58%) and trees (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
891 m
16 km
2,027 m
80 km
3,857 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Vanadzor 36 km · Dilijan 43 km · Marneuli 45 km · Ijevan 47 km · Rustavi 58 km · Gazakh 58 km · Tsaghkadzor 63 km · Hrazdan 65 km

Armenia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$9,474
2025
Happiness
5.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
82%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
20
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 515
Religion
Armenian Apostolic 95%not stated 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Alaverdi (41.0977°, 44.6732°, elevation 0 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).