Kashgar weather in July

In July, Kashgar sees average daytime highs of 32°C and overnight lows near 20°C, with 16 mm of rain across 3.7 wet days and about 14.5 hours of daylight. It is the 1st-warmest and 5th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 32°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 63% of the time in July, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 14 h 48 min at the start of July to 14 h 06 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, July is Kashgar's 2nd-clearest and 4th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Kashgar's year-round climate.

Daytime high
32°
1st warmest
Overnight low
20°
12th coldest
Rainfall
16 mm
3.7 wet days
Daylight
14 h 30 min
5:46 AM – 8:18 PM
Cloud cover
34%
2nd clearest
Wind
9 km/h
4th windiest
Solar energy
7.34 kWh/m²
Travel score
4.8
out of 10

Kashgar is city in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Air quality
Severe
PM2.5 90.2 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
505/km²
people per km²

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

Temperature in July

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 32°C through the month.

A typical July day in Kashgar reaches about 32°C in the afternoon and slips back to 20°C overnight — a 12°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 29°C and 36°C. Set against its neighbours, July runs about 1°C warmer than June and about 2°C warmer than August.

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How July really feels in Kashgar

Once humidity and wind are folded in, July averages 24 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
24
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in July is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Kashgar weather by month

How July compares with the rest of the year at a glance. July is the 1st-warmest and 5th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-0° / -10°51.21.69.50.0
Feb / -5°102.32.110.40.4
Mar13° / 133111.74.5
Apr22° / 10°102.50.1137.8
May27° / 14°223.9014.17.3
Jun31° / 18°173.9014.75.3
Jul32° / 20°163.7014.54.8
Aug30° / 18°264.6013.56.0
Sep26° / 14°244.5012.38.0
Oct19° / 122.30117.5
Nov10° / -1°81.90.89.82.9
Dec / -7°51.21.59.30.0

Cloud cover in July

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 63% of the time in July.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 24% of July, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 13%. Skies tend to open up as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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Chance of precipitation in July

Any precipitation

Kashgar gets around 16 mm of rain over 3.7 wet days in July. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 12% and peaks near 14% on the wettest days.

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Rain chance (%)
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Humidity in July

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of July feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, July lands in the dry band about 90% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
19640
29640
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59640
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119640
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Wind in July

Winds average 9 km/h in July.

Across July, daily wind ranges from about 8 km/h on the calmest days to 9 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Sunrise & sunset in July

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 14 h 48 min at the start of July to 14 h 06 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 42 minutes over July. Sunrise moves from 5:37 AM to 5:58 AM, and sunset from 8:22 PM to 8:06 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
114.85:378:22
214.75:378:22
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514.75:398:22
614.75:398:21
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Solar energy in July

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in July, about 7.34 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 2.44 kWh/m² to a high of 7.48 kWh/m² in June across the year — July's 7.34 kWh/m² sits near the top of that range.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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Planning a trip in July

Hazard calendar for Kashgar

In seasonPeak

In July, Kashgar sits inside its dust season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Kashgar sees seasonal dust haze (March–August), heaviest in April.

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

Is July a good time to visit Kashgar?

Our two travel scores rate July for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

4.8
Sightseeing
7th-best month of the year
7.7
Beach & pool
3rd-best month of the year

July is a reasonable time to visit Kashgar for sightseeing. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Kashgar in July

From July's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In July, Kashgar sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

light clothessun protection

UV index in Kashgar in July

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in July peaks around 10 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kashgar peaks around June 20 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 11 at about 2 (low).

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

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UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May10Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Air quality in Kashgar in July

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where July falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Kashgar is worst in April — around 171 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 3.8× the cleanest month (December, 45 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Kashgar's WHO annual average of 90.2 µg/m³.

0306090120150180JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyVery unhealthyUnhealthyPoorApr 15167 µg/m³Dec 1745 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan48Poor
Feb67Unhealthy
Mar148Unhealthy
Apr171Very unhealthy
May137Unhealthy
Jun72Unhealthy
Jul79Unhealthy
Aug95Unhealthy
Sep77Unhealthy
Oct95Unhealthy
Nov49Poor
Dec45Poor
Location & terrain

Where is Kashgar?

Kashgar sits at 39.5°N, 76.0°E, 1,284 m above sea level, in China. The nearest listed city is Naryn, 218 km away.

XonobodOshQorasuvKara Suu

Topography around Kashgar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kashgar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 52 m around an average of 1,294 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 619 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,064 m.

The land around Kashgar is covered by artificial surfaces (65%) within 3 km, cropland (47%) and bare terrain (31%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (62%) and cropland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
52 m
16 km
619 m
80 km
3,064 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
July weather nearby: Naryn 218 km · Kara-Kulja 241 km · Uzgen 270 km · Sultonobod 294 km · Xonobod 296 km · Osh 296 km · Qorasuv 299 km · Kara Suu 299 km

China travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 47% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,862
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
0.5
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
17.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 464
Religion
unaffiliated 52%folk religion 22%Buddhist 18%Christian 5%

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 Kashgar (39.4672°, 75.9868°, elevation 1,284 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).