Climate and average weather in Aqsay

In Aqsay, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are frigid, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Aqsay typically varies from -14°C to 29°C, and is rarely below -26°C or above 36°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 Aqsay for warm-weather activities are from late April to late June and early August to late September.

Hottest
Jul
29°
Coldest
Jan
-14°
Wettest
Oct
37 mm
Driest
Feb
24 mm
Rain / yr
364 mm
80 wet days
Daylight
7.7–16.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
65 m
51.2°N
Clearest
Jul
45% cloud

Aqsay is human settlement.

Founded
1936

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

Aqsay 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 April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.4 months, from May 7 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Aqsay is July, with an average high of 29°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 21 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below -1°C. The coldest month of the year in Aqsay is January, with an average low of -14°C and high of -8°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in August.

-20°20°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-7-14
Feb-7-14
Mar1-7
Apr143
May229
Jun2714
Jul2916
Aug2815
Sep219
Oct122
Nov1-5
Dec-5-12

How hot and cold Aqsay 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 -24°C (around February 1), with roughly 190 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 132 of them bitterly cold — worst in February.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-8-7-22-14
Feb-7-7-23-14
Mar11-14-7
Apr1414-13
May222289
Jun27271414
Jul29291616
Aug28281515
Sep212179
Oct1212-12
Nov11-10-5
Dec-6-5-19-12

Average hourly temperature in Aqsay

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -14°C.

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

Aqsay 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° / -14°287.58.98.20.0
Feb-7° / -14°246.47.49.60.0
Mar / -8°317.25.111.50.0
Apr14° / 296.40.613.54.1
May22° / 336.7015.37.2
Jun27° / 14°357016.27.0
Jul29° / 16°356.2015.96.1
Aug28° / 15°244.9014.47.0
Sep21° / 275.4012.47.1
Oct12° / 377.20.810.43.3
Nov / -5°316.94.48.70.0
Dec-6° / -12°317.87.97.70.0

Chance of rain

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

Aqsay gets about 364 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 2.3 months, from around Dec 8 to Feb 14, peaking in December at about 28% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 28.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 37 mm over about 7 wet days; February is the driest, with 24 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetDec 25 · 28%Aug 28 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb226
Mar237
Apr226
May227
Jun237
Jul206
Aug155
Sep195
Oct237
Nov237
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Aqsay collects about 364 mm of rain across 80 wet days — roughly 30 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 37 mm, while February is the driest at just 24 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec282431293335352427373131
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2889
Feb2467
Mar3175
Apr2961
May3370
Jun3570
Jul3560
Aug2450
Sep2750
Oct3771
Nov3174
Dec3188

Snow in Aqsay

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.

Aqsay averages about 35 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 15 to Apr 17 — about 6.1 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 26 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 133 cm of snow.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 3
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan932
Feb726
Mar521
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct11
Nov418
Dec833

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Aqsay, 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 April 21 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 7. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 8 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 20. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 84% 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 20 · 69%Jan 7 · 14%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1684
Feb2278
Mar3169
Apr4060
May5248
Jun6139
Jul6733
Aug6436
Sep5149
Oct3466
Nov2476
Dec1882

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 16 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 7 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 8 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.29:335:41
Feb9.68:536:32
Mar11.57:527:23
Apr13.56:418:15
May15.35:459:04
Jun16.25:199:38
Jul15.95:369:31
Aug14.46:218:43
Sep12.47:117:34
Oct10.48:016:25
Nov8.78:555:31
Dec7.79:345:15

Sunny days

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

Aqsay averages about 8 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 5.5 months, from around Apr 27 to Oct 10. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 3 sunny days — about 77% fewer than the July peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJul 2515 daysJan 103 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May11Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul15Mixed
Aug14Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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 Aqsay, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 13% 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 4 · 100%Jul 20 · 85%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May97300
Jun752050
Jul5631121
Aug801640
Sep99100
Oct100000
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Aqsay is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Dec 11 to Apr 19. The windiest month is February, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 20 to Dec 10, with July the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyFeb 3 · 18 km/hJul 28 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun12light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug12light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Best time to visit Aqsay

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Aqsay 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 Aqsay for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to late June and again from early August to late September, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 2 · 7.8

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
Mar0.1poor
Apr4.1fair
May7.2good
Jun7.0good
Jul6.2good
Aug7.0good
Sep7.0good
Oct3.3poor
Nov0.1poor
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 Aqsay for hot-weather activities is from late May to early September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 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 Aqsay, 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 29°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -8°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Aqsay sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Aqsay 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 Aqsay peaks around June 20 at about 7 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJun 20UV 7Dec 20UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5High
Jun7High
Jul6High
Aug4Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Aqsay

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 2.5 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
Mar10
Apr4.50
May60
Jun82.5
Jul70.5
Aug5.50
Sep40
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Aqsay typically lasts about 205 days, from around April 7 to October 28 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 28 to September 30.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1210%Apr 750%Apr 2890%Sep 3090%Oct 2850%Dec 410%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan531
Feb428
Mar1431
Apr6928
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep980
Oct7031
Nov2430
Dec731

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. Aqsay banks about 1,397 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
Apr14
May178
Jun317
Jul394
Aug348
Sep144
Oct2
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.

Aqsay receives about 3.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.7 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 16. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.7 kWh/m² — roughly 89% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 166.4 kWhDec 200.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.0Dim
Feb1.9Dim
Mar3.4Moderate
Apr4.7Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.4Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.2Bright
Sep3.6Moderate
Oct2.0Dim
Nov1.0Dim
Dec0.7Dim

Where is Aqsay?

Aqsay sits at 51.2°N, 53.0°E, 65 m above sea level, in Kazakhstan. The nearest listed city is Oral, 110 km away.

OrenburgBuzulukNeftegorskSaraktashKumertau

Topography around Aqsay

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Aqsay has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 17 m around an average of 64 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 104 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 231 m.

The land around Aqsay is covered by grassland (59%) and artificial surfaces (34%) within 3 km, grassland (78%) within 16 km, and grassland (68%) and cropland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
17 m
16 km
104 m
80 km
231 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Oral 110 km · Sol’-Iletsk 139 km · Sorochinsk 141 km · Orenburg 160 km · Buzuluk 186 km · Neftegorsk 221 km · Saraktash 243 km · Kumertau 261 km

Kazakhstan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 33% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$14,692
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
92%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.6
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 417
Religion
Muslim 69%Christian 17%non-believers 2%Buddhism 0%

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 Aqsay (51.1681°, 52.9978°, elevation 65 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).