Climate and average weather in Ismayilli

In Ismayilli, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ismayilli typically varies from -4°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 32°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 Ismayilli for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
27°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Oct
79 mm
Driest
Jul
35 mm
Rain / yr
719 mm
107 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
579 m
40.8°N
Clearest
Aug
29% cloud

Ismayilli is city in Azerbaijan.

Founded
1931

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

Ismayilli 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 May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 29 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Ismayilli is July, with an average high of 27°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 22 to March 16, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Ismayilli is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in July.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-4
Feb3-3
Mar70
Apr134
May199
Jun2414
Jul2717
Aug2717
Sep2113
Oct158
Nov82
Dec4-2

How hot and cold Ismayilli 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 -7°C (around January 23), with roughly 126 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22-6-4
Feb33-5-3
Mar77-10
Apr131334
May191999
Jun24241414
Jul27271717
Aug26271717
Sep21211313
Oct151578
Nov8812
Dec44-4-2

Average hourly temperature in Ismayilli

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

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

Ismayilli 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 / -4°427.87.49.40.0
Feb / -3°589.98.810.40.0
Mar / 7811.58.711.70.8
Apr13° / 78122.913.13.3
May19° / 70110.214.25.9
Jun24° / 14°547.5014.97.6
Jul27° / 17°356014.67.7
Aug27° / 17°385.5013.67.8
Sep21° / 13°717.8012.37.2
Oct15° / 7910.11.310.94.8
Nov / 74105.79.71.5
Dec / -3°438.36.49.10.0

Chance of rain

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

Ismayilli gets about 719 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.0 months, from around Jan 25 to May 25, peaking in April at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 27.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 79 mm over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 35 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 23 · 44%Jul 27 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb3410
Mar3712
Apr4012
May3611
Jun248
Jul196
Aug186
Sep268
Oct3310
Nov3410
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ismayilli collects about 719 mm of rain across 107 wet days — roughly 60 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 79 mm, while July is the driest at just 35 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 33% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec425878787054353871797443
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4287
Feb58109
Mar78129
Apr78123
May70110
Jun5480
Jul3560
Aug3860
Sep7180
Oct79101
Nov74106
Dec4386

Snow in Ismayilli

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.

Ismayilli averages about 41 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 8 to May 7 — about 7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 50 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 197 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 16
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan731
Feb950
Mar942
Apr312
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct15
Nov629
Dec628

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ismayilli, 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 May 22 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around October 14. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 15 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 21. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 58% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 31 · 88%Apr 21 · 41%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5446
Feb4753
Mar4456
Apr4258
May5446
Jun7624
Jul8416
Aug8416
Sep7228
Oct5941
Nov5149
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 11, 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)
Jan9.48:155:38
Feb10.47:516:13
Mar11.77:076:47
Apr13.16:157:20
May14.25:367:52
Jun14.95:208:15
Jul14.65:338:13
Aug13.66:027:41
Sep12.36:346:50
Oct10.97:065:59
Nov9.77:425:23
Dec9.18:115:16

Sunny days

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

Ismayilli averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jun 2 to Oct 11. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 8 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 3022 daysApr 247 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr8Gloomy
May10Mixed
Jun16Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug22Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov11Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.6 months, from around June 24 to September 10. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 16% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 11 to June 23, 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 2 · 100%Jul 18 · 81%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9640
Jun68311
Jul374816
Aug454411
Sep76222
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 Ismayilli is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMar 28 · 5 km/hSep 15 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Ismayilli

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Ismayilli is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Ismayilli for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 31 · 7.9

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
Mar0.9poor
Apr3.3poor
May5.8good
Jun7.6ideal
Jul7.7ideal
Aug7.8ideal
Sep7.2good
Oct4.8fair
Nov1.5poor
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 Ismayilli for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 30 · 8.1

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 Ismayilli, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Ismayilli sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 17°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ismayilli 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 Ismayilli peaks around July 17 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 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 highHighModerateLowJul 17UV 10Dec 18UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Ismayilli

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 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
Mar3.50
Apr60
May84.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep61.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Ismayilli 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 Ismayilli is worst in September — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.3× the cleanest month (December, 10 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1122 µg/m³Dec 1710 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb14Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov12Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Ismayilli typically lasts about 253 days, from around March 16 to November 23 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 14 to November 1.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1650%Apr 1490%Nov 190%Nov 2350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1431
Feb2128
Mar5231
Apr9013
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct980
Nov6530
Dec2731

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. Ismayilli banks about 1,365 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May125
Jun261
Jul360
Aug357
Sep209
Oct49
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.

Ismayilli receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 16 to Sep 15. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 69% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 226.4 kWhDec 112.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.3Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.3Intense
Jul6.4Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct3.1Moderate
Nov2.3Moderate
Dec2.0Dim

Where is Ismayilli?

Ismayilli sits at 40.8°N, 48.2°E, 579 m above sea level, in Azerbaijan. The nearest listed city is Aghsu, 32 km away.

AghsuQabalaGöyçayShemakhaKyurdarmirUjarAğdaşQuba

Topography around Ismayilli

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ismayilli has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 191 m around an average of 607 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,090 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,438 m.

The land around Ismayilli is covered by cropland (40%), trees (26%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, trees (52%) and cropland (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (36%), cropland (28%) and trees (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
191 m
16 km
2,090 m
80 km
4,438 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Aghsu 32 km · Qabala 34 km · Göyçay 38 km · Shemakha 45 km · Kyurdarmir 49 km · Ujar 51 km · Ağdaş 59 km · Quba 71 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 Ismayilli (40.7848°, 48.1514°, elevation 579 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).