Climate and average weather in Shiyeli

In Shiyeli, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Shiyeli typically varies from -8°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -19°C or above 40°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 Shiyeli for warm-weather activities are from mid April to late May and early September to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
Mar
21 mm
Driest
Sep
2 mm
Rain / yr
152 mm
37 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
152 m
44.2°N
Clearest
Aug
13% cloud

Shiyeli is village in Kyzylorda region, Kazakhstan.

Founded
1928

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

Shiyeli 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 mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Shiyeli, 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 8 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Shiyeli is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 21 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 7°C. The coldest month of the year in Shiyeli is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of -0°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in June.

-20°-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-8
Feb3-7
Mar110
Apr218
May2814
Jun3319
Jul3521
Aug3319
Sep2713
Oct196
Nov9-1
Dec2-7

How hot and cold Shiyeli 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, Shiyeli feels like about 35°C (around July 24). About 79 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -14°C (around January 20), with roughly 150 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 86 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan00-14-8
Feb33-12-7
Mar1111-40
Apr212168
May28281414
Jun33331919
Jul35352121
Aug33331919
Sep27271313
Oct191936
Nov99-5-1
Dec22-12-7

Average hourly temperature in Shiyeli

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Shiyeli 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-0° / -8°1953.89.10.0
Feb / -7°153.8210.20.1
Mar11° / -0°214.90.611.63.3
Apr21° / 214.1013.27.4
May28° / 14°143.3014.57.3
Jun33° / 19°71.9015.24.4
Jul35° / 21°51.40153.4
Aug33° / 19°30.8013.84.6
Sep27° / 13°20.7012.38.3
Oct19° / 92.50.110.87.3
Nov / -1°184.31.19.41.9
Dec / -7°174.32.48.70.0

Chance of rain

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

Shiyeli gets about 152 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.0 months, from around Oct 25 to May 25, peaking in March at about 17% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 4.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 21 mm over about 5 wet days; September is the driest, with 2 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainMar 24 · 17%Sep 4 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb144
Mar165
Apr144
May113
Jun62
Jul51
Aug21
Sep31
Oct93
Nov134
Dec144

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Shiyeli collects about 152 mm of rain across 37 wet days — roughly 13 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 21 mm, while September is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1915212114753291817
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1954
Feb1542
Mar2151
Apr2140
May1430
Jun720
Jul510
Aug310
Sep210
Oct930
Nov1841
Dec1742

Snow in Shiyeli

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.

Shiyeli averages about 10 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 5 to Mar 18 — about 4.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 12 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 33 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 16
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan412
Feb28
Mar12
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov13
Dec28

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Shiyeli, 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 7 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 23. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 24 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 6. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 65% 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 17 · 95%Jan 11 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3565
Feb4357
Mar5149
Apr5743
May7129
Jun8515
Jul928
Aug955
Sep8911
Oct7129
Nov5347
Dec4555

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 15 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.19:116:13
Feb10.28:426:53
Mar11.67:547:31
Apr13.26:578:10
May14.56:128:46
Jun15.25:549:12
Jul15.06:089:09
Aug13.86:428:33
Sep12.37:187:36
Oct10.87:566:41
Nov9.48:376:00
Dec8.79:085:50

Sunny days

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

Shiyeli averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around May 17 to Oct 23. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 8 sunny days — about 70% fewer than the August peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1727 daysJan 118 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Gloomy
Feb9Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May17Bright
Jun21Bright
Jul26Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep24Brilliant
Oct19Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Shiyeli, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9720
Jun9541
Jul9262
Aug9811
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 Shiyeli is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Mar 2 to Sep 28. The windiest month is August, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 29 to Mar 1, with December the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 17 · 14 km/hDec 12 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct12calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Shiyeli

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 25 · 8.9

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
Feb0.1poor
Mar3.3poor
Apr7.3good
May7.2good
Jun4.5fair
Jul3.4poor
Aug4.6fair
Sep8.2ideal
Oct7.2good
Nov2.0poor
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 times of year to visit Shiyeli for hot-weather activities run from early May to late June and again from early August to late September, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 6 · 9.2

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 Shiyeli, 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 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -0°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Shiyeli sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Shiyeli 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 Shiyeli peaks around June 12 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighHighModerateLowJun 12UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr5High
May7Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul6High
Aug8Very high
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Shiyeli

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 4.5 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
Mar2.50
Apr60
May7.54
Jun84.5
Jul72.5
Aug7.53.5
Sep5.50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Shiyeli 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 Shiyeli is worst in April — around 54 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.0× the cleanest month (January, 13 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 2354 µg/m³Jan 1514 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar45Poor
Apr54Poor
May54Poor
Jun38Poor
Jul39Poor
Aug44Poor
Sep52Poor
Oct45Poor
Nov31Moderate
Dec18Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Shiyeli typically lasts about 239 days, from around March 17 to November 10 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 7 to October 17.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1750%Apr 790%Oct 1790%Nov 1050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1131
Feb1628
Mar5131
Apr957
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8915
Nov4130
Dec1331

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. Shiyeli banks about 2,381 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
Mar0
Apr132
May339
Jun480
Jul554
Aug505
Sep298
Oct72
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.

Shiyeli receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.5 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 25. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.5 kWh/m² — roughly 79% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 37.4 kWhDec 241.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.8Dim
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.6Intense
Sep5.2Bright
Oct3.3Moderate
Nov1.9Dim
Dec1.5Dim

Where is Shiyeli?

Shiyeli sits at 44.2°N, 66.7°E, 152 m above sea level, in Kazakhstan. The nearest listed city is Zhangaqorghan, 50 km away.

ZhangatasZhosalyArys

Topography around Shiyeli

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Shiyeli has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 9 m around an average of 152 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 40 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 754 m.

The land around Shiyeli is covered by artificial surfaces (47%) and shrubs (26%) within 3 km, cropland (39%), shrubs (27%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (43%) and shrubs (40%) within 80 km.

3 km
9 m
16 km
40 m
80 km
754 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Zhangaqorghan 50 km · Tasbuget 115 km · Kyzylorda 123 km · Turkestan 156 km · Kentau 160 km · Zhangatas 250 km · Zhosaly 256 km · Arys 256 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 Shiyeli (44.1706°, 66.7338°, elevation 152 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).