Climate and average weather in Kyzyl-Suu

In Kyzyl-Suu, the summers are mild, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are frigid, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late June to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kyzyl-Suu typically varies from -12°C to 16°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 19°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kyzyl-Suu for warm-weather activities is from late June to early September.

Hottest
Jul
16°
Coldest
Jan
-12°
Wettest
Aug
224 mm
Driest
Jan
61 mm
Rain / yr
1576 mm
190 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,757 m
42.3°N
Clearest
Sep
48% cloud

Kyzyl-Suu is village in Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan.

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

Kyzyl-Suu 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 June to early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 22 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 10°C. The hottest month of the year in Kyzyl-Suu is July, with an average high of 16°C and low of 9°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 25 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below -2°C. The coldest month of the year in Kyzyl-Suu is January, with an average low of -12°C and high of -6°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

-20°-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-6-12
Feb-4-10
Mar0-5
Apr50
May103
Jun137
Jul169
Aug159
Sep125
Oct6-1
Nov0-6
Dec-5-10

How hot and cold Kyzyl-Suu 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 -17°C (around January 16), with roughly 210 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 115 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-20°-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-6-6-17-12
Feb-4-4-14-10
Mar00-9-5
Apr55-30
May101023
Jun131377
Jul161699
Aug151599
Sep121245
Oct66-3-1
Nov00-10-6
Dec-5-5-15-10

Average hourly temperature in Kyzyl-Suu

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 16°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -12°C.

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

Kyzyl-Suu 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-6° / -12°611212.79.30.0
Feb-4° / -10°7412.312.510.30.0
Mar / -5°8713.512.611.60.0
Apr / -0°110149.313.10.3
May10° / 15318.5814.41.7
Jun13° / 17119.66.1152.9
Jul16° / 19019.62.114.83.9
Aug15° / 22420.52.313.73.8
Sep12° / 200204.612.32.6
Oct / -1°14816.27.310.80.6
Nov-0° / -6°9012.610.19.60.0
Dec-5° / -10°7011.211.390.0

Chance of rain

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

Kyzyl-Suu gets about 1576 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.6 months, from around May 2 to Oct 17, peaking in June at about 68% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 224 mm over about 21 wet days; January is the driest, with 61 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 8 · 68%Dec 29 · 36%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3912
Feb4412
Mar4414
Apr4714
May5919
Jun6520
Jul6420
Aug6621
Sep6620
Oct5316
Nov4213
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kyzyl-Suu collects about 1576 mm of rain across 190 wet days — roughly 131 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 224 mm, while January is the driest at just 61 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6174871101531711902242001489070
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan611213
Feb741213
Mar871413
Apr110149
May153198
Jun171206
Jul190202
Aug224212
Sep200205
Oct148167
Nov901310
Dec701111

Snow in Kyzyl-Suu

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.

Kyzyl-Suu averages about 99 snowy days a year. Snow falls only in scattered spells rather than a settled season.

February is snowiest, with roughly 14 days of snow and an estimated 82 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 521 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 11
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1364
Feb1382
Mar1379
Apr948
May827
Jun616
Jul26
Aug27
Sep517
Oct747
Nov1063
Dec1165

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kyzyl-Suu, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 28 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around November 27. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 28 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around June 27. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 9 · 69%Mar 8 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4753
Feb4357
Mar4357
Apr4753
May4357
Jun4555
Jul6040
Aug6634
Sep6535
Oct6040
Nov5446
Dec4951

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 13, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 8 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.38:215:34
Feb10.37:546:11
Mar11.67:086:47
Apr13.16:147:23
May14.45:327:56
Jun15.05:168:21
Jul14.85:298:18
Aug13.76:007:44
Sep12.36:346:51
Oct10.87:085:58
Nov9.67:475:20
Dec9.08:175:12

Sunny days

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

Kyzyl-Suu averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Jul 23 to Dec 19. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 7 sunny days — about 45% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2614 daysJun 157 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May8Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul10Mixed
Aug12Mixed
Sep12Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov12Mixed
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 Kyzyl-Suu, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% 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 (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul991
Aug991
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Kyzyl-Suu is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Oct 25 to Apr 23. The windiest month is December, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 24 to Oct 24, with August the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 20 · 9 km/hAug 2 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Best time to visit Kyzyl-Suu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Kyzyl-Suu 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 time of year to visit Kyzyl-Suu for general outdoor tourist activities is from late June to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 4.0

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
Mar0.0poor
Apr0.3poor
May1.7poor
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep2.5poor
Oct0.6poor
Nov0.0poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Kyzyl-Suu rarely gets warm enough to lift this score — no time of year really suits hot-weather activities here.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectemperaturecloudsprecipitation

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 Kyzyl-Suu, 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 16°C), the essentials are a warm layer, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -6°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kyzyl-Suu sees daytime highs around 16°C and nights near 9°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: a warm layer. About 20 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kyzyl-Suu 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 Kyzyl-Suu peaks around July 19 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 19UV 10Jan 10UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May10Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Kyzyl-Suu

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 May the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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
Feb1.50
Mar4.50
Apr6.50
May8.56
Jun8.55
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep6.52.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Kyzyl-Suu 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 Kyzyl-Suu is worst in April — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 8.9× the cleanest month (December, 3 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodApr 1924 µg/m³Dec 173 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan4Good
Feb5Good
Mar16Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct10Good
Nov4Good
Dec3Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kyzyl-Suu typically lasts about 177 days, from around April 18 to October 11 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 15 to September 26.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2610%Apr 1850%May 1590%Sep 2690%Oct 1150%Nov 210%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan031
Feb028
Mar531
Apr4530
May9014
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep965
Oct4031
Nov330
Dec031

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. Kyzyl-Suu banks about 152 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May0
Jun13
Jul75
Aug63
Sep2
Oct0
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.

Kyzyl-Suu receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 12 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.1 kWh/m² — roughly 69% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 307.0 kWhDec 192.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar5.0Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun7.0Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.1Intense
Sep5.0Bright
Oct3.7Moderate
Nov2.6Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Kyzyl-Suu?

Kyzyl-Suu sits at 42.3°N, 78.0°E, 1,757 m above sea level, in Kyrgyzstan. The nearest listed city is Karakol, 36 km away.

EsikTalgarAlmatyShelekOtegen BatyraBurundayBalykchy

Topography around Kyzyl-Suu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kyzyl-Suu has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 290 m around an average of 1,771 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,839 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,631 m.

The land around Kyzyl-Suu is covered by cropland (56%) and grassland (27%) within 3 km, grassland (62%) and cropland (24%) within 16 km, and grassland (30%) and water (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
290 m
16 km
1,839 m
80 km
3,631 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewatermoss and lichen
Nearby: Karakol 36 km · Esik 121 km · Talgar 124 km · Almaty 135 km · Shelek 141 km · Otegen Batyra 144 km · Burunday 147 km · Balykchy 150 km

Kyrgyzstan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 33% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,081
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
74%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.7
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 443
Religion
Muslim 90%Christian 7%other 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 Kyzyl-Suu (42.3421°, 78.0064°, elevation 1,757 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).