Climate and average weather in Mingachevir

In Mingachevir, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mingachevir typically varies from 0°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 38°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Mingachevir for warm-weather activities are from late April to mid June and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
33°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
May
64 mm
Driest
Jan
22 mm
Rain / yr
500 mm
84 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
26 m
40.8°N
Clearest
Aug
27% cloud

Mingachevir is city in Azerbaijan.

Density
2,256/km²
people per km²
Founded
1946

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

Mingachevir 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 early September to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 31 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Mingachevir is July, with an average high of 33°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 20 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Mingachevir is January, with an average low of 0°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan70
Feb91
Mar145
Apr1910
May2415
Jun3020
Jul3323
Aug3322
Sep2718
Oct2113
Nov137
Dec92

How hot and cold Mingachevir 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 hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Mingachevir feels like about 34°C (around July 27). About 54 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around January 27), with roughly 69 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-20
Feb99-11
Mar131435
Apr1919910
May24241515
Jun30302020
Jul33332323
Aug33332222
Sep27271818
Oct21211213
Nov131357
Dec9902

Average hourly temperature in Mingachevir

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Mingachevir 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 / 224.429.41.2
Feb / 286.12.410.41.9
Mar14° / 519.10.711.74.0
Apr19° / 10°6311.30.113.15.8
May24° / 15°6411014.26.7
Jun30° / 20°476.6014.95.7
Jul33° / 23°314.5014.64.1
Aug33° / 22°324.9013.64.4
Sep27° / 18°536.8012.37.0
Oct21° / 13°507.8010.97.0
Nov13° / 366.10.49.74.3
Dec / 2350.99.11.8

Chance of rain

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

Mingachevir gets about 500 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 3.4 months, from around Feb 28 to Jun 10, peaking in May at about 42% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 28.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 64 mm over about 11 wet days; January is the driest, with 22 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 1 · 42%Jul 28 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan144
Feb216
Mar309
Apr3811
May3511
Jun217
Jul155
Aug165
Sep237
Oct258
Nov206
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mingachevir collects about 500 mm of rain across 84 wet days — roughly 42 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 64 mm, while January is the driest at just 22 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec222851636447313253503623
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2242
Feb2862
Mar5191
Apr63110
May64110
Jun4770
Jul3150
Aug3250
Sep5370
Oct5080
Nov3660
Dec2351

Snow in Mingachevir

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.

Mingachevir averages about 7 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 24 to Mar 24 — about 4 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 10 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 25 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan26
Feb210
Mar13
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec16

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mingachevir, 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 25 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around October 15. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 16 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around May 24. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 54% 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 2 · 91%Apr 24 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5743
Feb4951
Mar4753
Apr4654
May5644
Jun8020
Jul8713
Aug8812
Sep7822
Oct6337
Nov5743
Dec5644

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)
Jan9.48:205:42
Feb10.47:556:18
Mar11.77:116:51
Apr13.16:197:25
May14.25:407:56
Jun14.95:258:19
Jul14.65:388:17
Aug13.66:077:45
Sep12.36:386:54
Oct10.97:106:04
Nov9.77:465:28
Dec9.18:155:21

Sunny days

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

Mingachevir averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Jun 6 to Oct 17. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 9 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 424 daysApr 298 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug23Bright
Sep19Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov13Mixed
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 Mingachevir, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around May 23 to September 29. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 44% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 30 to May 22, and April 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 3 · 100%Jul 18 · 53%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr95500
May593280
Jun3042272
Jul19373410
Aug1937368
Sep3341242
Oct752140
Nov99100
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Mingachevir is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 6 to Sep 23. The windiest month is July, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 24 to Mar 5, with December the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 24 · 9 km/hDec 14 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Mingachevir

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Mingachevir 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 times of year to visit Mingachevir for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to mid June and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 27 · 7.5

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
Jan1.3poor
Feb2.0poor
Mar4.0fair
Apr5.7good
May6.6good
Jun5.7good
Jul4.2fair
Aug4.4fair
Sep7.0good
Oct6.9good
Nov4.3fair
Dec1.9poor

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 Mingachevir for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 6 · 8.0

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 Mingachevir, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 7°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Mingachevir sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mingachevir 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 Mingachevir peaks around July 17 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 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 9Dec 17UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr5High
May8Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Mingachevir

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
Mar30
Apr5.50
May7.54
Jun85
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct3.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Mingachevir 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 Mingachevir is worst in September — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodSep 1022 µg/m³Dec 1611 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep23Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec11Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Mingachevir is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 5 to November 28 (269 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 590%Nov 2890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5531
Feb6628
Mar943
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov973
Dec7231

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. Mingachevir banks about 2,582 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar8
Apr130
May299
Jun445
Jul556
Aug542
Sep376
Oct203
Nov23
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.

Mingachevir receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.9 and 6.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.9 kWh/m² — roughly 71% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 236.5 kWhDec 121.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.2Moderate
Feb3.0Moderate
Mar4.0Bright
Apr5.0Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.5Intense
Jul6.5Intense
Aug5.9Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.9Dim

Where is Mingachevir?

Mingachevir sits at 40.8°N, 47.1°E, 26 m above sea level, in Azerbaijan. The nearest listed city is Yevlakh, 18 km away.

NaftalanAğdaşBardaTartarShekiUjarGöyçay

Topography around Mingachevir

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mingachevir has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 256 m around an average of 55 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 403 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,031 m.

The land around Mingachevir is covered by artificial surfaces (28%) within 3 km, grassland (25%), cropland (24%) and shrubs (21%) within 16 km, and cropland (33%) and grassland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
256 m
16 km
403 m
80 km
4,031 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Yevlakh 18 km · Naftalan 35 km · Ağdaş 37 km · Barda 44 km · Tartar 48 km · Sheki 48 km · Ujar 57 km · Göyçay 59 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 Mingachevir (40.7642°, 47.0623°, elevation 26 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).