Climate and average weather in Embi

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

Best: early May to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Embi typically varies from -15°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -25°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 Embi for warm-weather activities are from early May to mid June and mid August to late September.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
-15°
Wettest
May
33 mm
Driest
Sep
11 mm
Rain / yr
275 mm
64 wet days
Daylight
8.0–16.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
233 m
48.8°N
Clearest
Aug
39% cloud

Embi is town in Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan.

Founded
1870

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

Embi 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 May to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Embi, 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 9 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 20°C. The hottest month of the year in Embi is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 22 to March 11, with daily high temperatures below -1°C. The coldest month of the year in Embi is January, with an average low of -15°C and high of -8°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in June.

-20°20°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-8-15
Feb-7-14
Mar1-7
Apr143
May2210
Jun2815
Jul3018
Aug2816
Sep2110
Oct122
Nov1-6
Dec-6-12

How hot and cold Embi 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 January 29), with roughly 189 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 134 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-8-8-23-15
Feb-7-7-23-14
Mar11-14-7
Apr1414-13
May2222910
Jun28281515
Jul30301818
Aug28281616
Sep2121810
Oct1212-22
Nov11-11-6
Dec-6-6-20-12

Average hourly temperature in Embi

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -15°C.

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

Embi 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° / -15°205.87.88.50.0
Feb-7° / -15°205.269.80.0
Mar / -7°296.85.111.60.1
Apr14° / 276.1113.44.4
May22° / 10°336.40157.3
Jun28° / 15°245.1015.96.9
Jul30° / 18°224.7015.55.9
Aug28° / 16°143.2014.27.0
Sep21° / 10°113012.47.8
Oct12° / 255.20.710.53.8
Nov / -6°235.94.18.90.1
Dec-6° / -12°276.87.68.10.0

Chance of rain

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

Embi gets about 275 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 7.2 months, from around Oct 20 to May 26, peaking in December at about 24% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 4.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 33 mm over about 6 wet days; September is the driest, with 11 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainDec 22 · 24%Sep 4 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb195
Mar217
Apr216
May216
Jun175
Jul155
Aug103
Sep103
Oct175
Nov206
Dec217

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Embi collects about 275 mm of rain across 64 wet days — roughly 23 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 33 mm, while September is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec202029273324221411252327
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2068
Feb2056
Mar2975
Apr2761
May3360
Jun2450
Jul2250
Aug1430
Sep1130
Oct2551
Nov2364
Dec2778

Snow in Embi

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.

Embi averages about 32 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 16 to Apr 21 — about 6.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 27 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 121 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 15
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan827
Feb626
Mar521
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct12
Nov415
Dec829

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Embi, 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 26 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around October 19. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 72% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 20 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around April 25. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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 9 · 74%Jan 11 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1882
Feb2476
Mar3466
Apr4456
May5941
Jun6931
Jul7129
Aug7228
Sep6337
Oct4951
Nov3466
Dec2674

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 19, brings about 16 hours of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 8 hours — a swing of roughly 8 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.59:035:31
Feb9.88:276:17
Mar11.67:307:04
Apr13.46:247:51
May15.05:328:35
Jun15.95:109:06
Jul15.55:269:00
Aug14.26:068:17
Sep12.46:517:12
Oct10.57:376:08
Nov8.98:265:19
Dec8.19:025:05

Sunny days

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

Embi 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 17 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 29 to Oct 20. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 4 sunny days — about 76% fewer than the August peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightAug 1317 daysJan 103 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr9Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul16Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep15Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec6Gloomy

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 Embi, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9910
Jun9460
Jul84142
Aug9460
Sep10000
Oct10000
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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Embi is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Dec 5 to May 2. The windiest month is January, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 3 to Dec 4, with August the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 31 · 19 km/hAug 7 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan18light breeze
Feb19light breeze
Mar18light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Best time to visit Embi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 5 · 8.4

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
Mar0.2poor
Apr4.3fair
May7.3good
Jun6.9good
Jul6.0good
Aug7.0good
Sep7.7ideal
Oct3.8fair
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 Embi for hot-weather activities is from late May to early September, with a peak score in the second week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 14 · 8.4

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 Embi, 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 30°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, Embi sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Embi 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 Embi peaks around June 17 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighHighModerateLowJun 17UV 7Dec 19UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul7High
Aug5High
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Embi

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 4 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
Mar2.50
Apr4.50
May71.5
Jun84
Jul7.52.5
Aug60
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Embi typically lasts about 203 days, from around April 6 to October 25 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 26 to October 2.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1510%Apr 650%Apr 2690%Oct 290%Oct 2550%Nov 2610%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan231
Feb328
Mar1431
Apr7226
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep980
Oct6830
Nov1930
Dec431

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. Embi banks about 1,523 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
Apr15
May185
Jun350
Jul426
Aug379
Sep164
Oct4
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.

Embi receives about 3.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.0 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 19. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.0 kWh/m² — roughly 84% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 166.6 kWhDec 211.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.3Moderate
Mar3.7Moderate
Apr4.9Bright
May6.0Bright
Jun6.6Intense
Jul6.4Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.0Bright
Oct2.4Moderate
Nov1.3Dim
Dec1.0Dim

Where is Embi?

Embi sits at 48.8°N, 58.2°E, 233 m above sea level, in Kazakhstan. The nearest listed city is Kandyagash, 89 km away.

AktobeNovotroitskOrskYasnyyMednogorsk

Topography around Embi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Embi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 62 m around an average of 235 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 130 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 486 m.

The land around Embi is covered by grassland (82%) within 3 km, grassland (99%) within 16 km, and grassland (99%) within 80 km.

3 km
62 m
16 km
130 m
80 km
486 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwetland
Nearby: Kandyagash 89 km · Shalqar 155 km · Khromtau 159 km · Aktobe 175 km · Novotroitsk 264 km · Orsk 268 km · Yasnyy 274 km · Mednogorsk 289 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 Embi (48.8298°, 58.1504°, elevation 233 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).