Climate and average weather in Göygöl

In Göygöl, the summers are warm, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Göygöl typically varies from -7°C to 23°C, and is rarely below -14°C or above 27°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jul
23°
Coldest
Jan
-7°
Wettest
May
200 mm
Driest
Dec
23 mm
Rain / yr
1103 mm
171 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
686 m
40.6°N
Clearest
Dec
47% cloud

Göygöl is city in Azerbaijan.

Founded
1819

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

Göygöl 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 Göygöl, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.8 months, from May 29 to September 20, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Göygöl is July, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 26 to March 9, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Göygöl is January, with an average low of -7°C and high of 1°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1-7
Feb2-6
Mar6-2
Apr113
May168
Jun2012
Jul2314
Aug2314
Sep1911
Oct146
Nov7-1
Dec3-5

How hot and cold Göygöl 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 -8°C (around January 21), with roughly 139 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan11-7-7
Feb22-6-6
Mar66-3-2
Apr111123
May161678
Jun20201212
Jul23231414
Aug23231414
Sep18191111
Oct131466
Nov77-1-1
Dec33-5-5

Average hourly temperature in Göygöl

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 July afternoons, near 23°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -7°C.

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

Göygöl 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 / -7°255.869.40.0
Feb / -6°347.57.710.40.0
Mar / -2°7514.59.811.70.4
Apr11° / 13521.14.1131.9
May16° / 20025.20.314.23.2
Jun20° / 12°17021.5014.84.6
Jul23° / 14°11716014.66.1
Aug23° / 14°9915013.66.2
Sep19° / 11°10116.3012.35.1
Oct14° / 8114.41.110.93.5
Nov / -1°448.44.39.71.0
Dec / -5°235.55.19.20.0

Chance of rain

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

Göygöl gets about 1103 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.2 months, from around Mar 13 to Jul 19, peaking in May at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 22.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 200 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 23 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 11 · 82%Dec 22 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb278
Mar4715
Apr7021
May8025
Jun7222
Jul5216
Aug4915
Sep5416
Oct4614
Nov298
Dec186

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Göygöl collects about 1103 mm of rain across 171 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 200 mm, while December is the driest at just 23 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec25347513520017011799101814423
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2566
Feb3488
Mar751510
Apr135214
May200250
Jun170220
Jul117160
Aug99150
Sep101160
Oct81141
Nov4484
Dec2365

Snow in Göygöl

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.

Göygöl averages about 38 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 12 to May 10 — about 6.9 months.

March is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 49 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 168 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonMar 16
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan623
Feb836
Mar1049
Apr417
May01
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov419
Dec521

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Göygöl, 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 15 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around September 16. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around February 26 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around June 14. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% 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 5 · 68%May 1 · 25%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6040
Feb5446
Mar4258
Apr3169
May3169
Jun5050
Jul6238
Aug6337
Sep5248
Oct4852
Nov5446
Dec6040

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 12, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.48:225:46
Feb10.47:586:21
Mar11.77:146:54
Apr13.06:237:27
May14.25:437:58
Jun14.85:288:22
Jul14.65:418:19
Aug13.66:107:48
Sep12.36:416:57
Oct10.97:136:07
Nov9.77:495:31
Dec9.28:185:24

Sunny days

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

Göygöl averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Oct 29 to Mar 3. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 3 sunny days — about 76% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2715 daysMay 43 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul11Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep9Mixed
Oct9Mixed
Nov12Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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 Göygöl, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.7 months, from around June 22 to September 11. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 22% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 12 to June 21, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 7 · 100%Jul 24 · 73%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May95400
Jun593830
Jul2058211
Aug2357181
Sep663040
Oct98200
Nov100000
Dec100000

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 20 · 5 km/hOct 31 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Göygöl

In seasonPeak

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

Göygöl's rainy season runs April–September, 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 Göygöl

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Göygöl 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 Göygöl for general outdoor tourist activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 29 · 6.5

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
Mar0.4poor
Apr1.9poor
May3.2poor
Jun4.6fair
Jul6.0good
Aug6.2good
Sep5.1fair
Oct3.5poor
Nov1.0poor
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 Göygöl 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 1 · 5.2

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 Göygöl, 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 July (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 July, Göygöl sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Göygöl 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 Göygöl peaks around July 24 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 24UV 10Dec 16UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Göygöl

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 July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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
Feb0.50
Mar3.50
Apr60
May84.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep6.52.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Göygöl 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 Göygöl is worst in July — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJul 1922 µg/m³Dec 1011 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan12Good
Feb14Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr19Moderate
May20Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Göygöl typically lasts about 227 days, from around March 30 to November 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 25 to October 25.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2210%Mar 3050%Apr 2590%Oct 2590%Nov 1150%Dec 1610%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan531
Feb928
Mar3131
Apr7926
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct957
Nov4430
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. Göygöl banks about 897 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02004006008001,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May56
Jun176
Jul260
Aug257
Sep134
Oct14
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.

Göygöl receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 15. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 66% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 226.4 kWhDec 132.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.4Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.3Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct3.2Moderate
Nov2.4Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Göygöl?

Göygöl sits at 40.6°N, 46.3°E, 686 m above sea level, in Azerbaijan. The nearest listed city is Ganja, 11 km away.

ShamkirNaftalanTartarGovlarMingachevirYevlakhBarda

Topography around Göygöl

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Göygöl has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 270 m around an average of 683 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,827 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,663 m.

The land around Göygöl is covered by grassland (39%), cropland (28%) and artificial surfaces (23%) within 3 km, grassland (51%) within 16 km, and grassland (51%) within 80 km.

3 km
270 m
16 km
1,827 m
80 km
3,663 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Ganja 11 km · Shamkir 37 km · Naftalan 43 km · Tartar 58 km · Govlar 64 km · Mingachevir 66 km · Yevlakh 70 km · Barda 72 km

Azerbaijan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 28% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$7,411
2025
Happiness
5.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
58%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
6.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 454
Religion
Muslim 97%Christian 3%

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 Göygöl (40.5858°, 46.3189°, elevation 686 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).