Climate and average weather in Qayroqqum

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

Best: early September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Qayroqqum typically varies from -1°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -7°C or above 37°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 Qayroqqum for warm-weather activities are from early May to late May and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
33°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Apr
64 mm
Driest
Aug
4 mm
Rain / yr
346 mm
69 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
362 m
40.3°N
Clearest
Aug
16% cloud

Qayroqqum is human settlement in Tajikistan.

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

Qayroqqum 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 late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Qayroqqum, 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 15 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Qayroqqum is July, with an average high of 33°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 21 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Qayroqqum is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in June.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-1
Feb70
Mar135
Apr2011
May2615
Jun3219
Jul3321
Aug3220
Sep2715
Oct199
Nov114
Dec60

How hot and cold Qayroqqum 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, Qayroqqum feels like about 34°C (around July 7). About 60 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -5°C (around January 14), with roughly 100 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-5-1
Feb77-30
Mar131335
Apr20201011
May26261515
Jun32321919
Jul33332121
Aug32322020
Sep27271515
Oct191989
Nov111124
Dec66-30

Average hourly temperature in Qayroqqum

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -1°C.

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

Qayroqqum 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 / -1°266.14.19.50.0
Feb / 397.7410.40.7
Mar13° / 5810.2211.73.6
Apr20° / 11°6410.70.3136.2
May26° / 15°387.7014.27.0
Jun32° / 19°153.9014.85.1
Jul33° / 21°61.7014.64.3
Aug32° / 20°40.9013.65.5
Sep27° / 15°81.4012.38.3
Oct19° / 214.50.310.97.3
Nov11° / 366.71.79.83.2
Dec / 327.43.99.20.5

Chance of rain

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

Qayroqqum gets about 346 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 4.2 months, from around Jan 18 to May 26, peaking in March at about 37% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 2.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 64 mm over about 11 wet days; August is the driest, with 4 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 31 · 37%Sep 2 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb288
Mar3310
Apr3511
May258
Jun134
Jul62
Aug31
Sep51
Oct155
Nov227
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Qayroqqum collects about 346 mm of rain across 69 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 64 mm, while August is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec263958643815648213632
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2664
Feb3984
Mar58102
Apr64110
May3880
Jun1540
Jul620
Aug410
Sep810
Oct2150
Nov3672
Dec3274

Snow in Qayroqqum

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.

Qayroqqum averages about 16 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 1 to Apr 8 — about 5.2 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 17 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 58 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 5
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan415
Feb417
Mar28
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov25
Dec412

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Qayroqqum, 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 21 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 29. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 96% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 30 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 20. The cloudiest month is February, 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 10 · 96%Mar 13 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3961
Feb3565
Mar3664
Apr4555
May5941
Jun8416
Jul955
Aug964
Sep919
Oct7129
Nov5248
Dec4456

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 16, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 16, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.57:475:13
Feb10.47:235:48
Mar11.76:406:21
Apr13.05:496:53
May14.25:107:24
Jun14.84:567:47
Jul14.65:087:45
Aug13.65:377:13
Sep12.36:076:23
Oct10.96:385:33
Nov9.87:144:58
Dec9.27:434:51

Sunny days

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

Qayroqqum averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Jun 1 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 7 sunny days — about 71% fewer than the September peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 627 daysFeb 37 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan8Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar8Gloomy
Apr9Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun20Bright
Jul26Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep25Brilliant
Oct19Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec10Mixed

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 Qayroqqum, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 3% 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
Apr9460
May84160
Jun71262
Jul57394
Aug61363
Sep9280
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 Qayroqqum is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Oct 22 to Apr 28. The windiest month is December, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 29 to Oct 21, with August the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeDec 20 · 11 km/hAug 25 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Best time to visit Qayroqqum

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 22 · 8.7

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
Feb0.8poor
Mar3.6fair
Apr6.2good
May6.9good
Jun5.1fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug5.5fair
Sep8.2ideal
Oct7.2good
Nov3.2poor
Dec0.5poor

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 Qayroqqum for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 5 · 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 Qayroqqum, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Qayroqqum sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Qayroqqum 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 Qayroqqum peaks around May 23 at about 9 (very high) — 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowMay 23UV 9Jan 11UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May9Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Qayroqqum

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 5.5 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
Feb1.50
Mar50
Apr6.52
May8.55.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul85
Aug7.55
Sep6.52.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Qayroqqum 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 Qayroqqum is worst in May — around 37 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.9× the cleanest month (December, 19 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMay 1336 µg/m³Dec 2419 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar30Moderate
Apr35Poor
May37Poor
Jun33Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug26Moderate
Sep30Moderate
Oct31Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Qayroqqum typically lasts about 309 days, from around February 16 to December 21 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 18 to November 13.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1650%Mar 1890%Nov 1390%Dec 2150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan3831
Feb5228
Mar8818
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8618
Dec5431

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. Qayroqqum banks about 2,464 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
Mar15
Apr167
May335
Jun462
Jul534
Aug487
Sep326
Oct134
Nov4
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.

Qayroqqum receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 27 to Sep 27. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 72% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 47.5 kWhDec 192.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.3Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May6.6Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct3.8Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.0Moderate

Where is Qayroqqum?

Qayroqqum sits at 40.3°N, 69.8°E, 362 m above sea level, in Tajikistan. The nearest listed city is Buston, 9.0 km away.

SuluktuBekobodRazzakovKonibodom

Topography around Qayroqqum

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Qayroqqum has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 131 m around an average of 353 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 751 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,812 m.

The land around Qayroqqum is covered by cropland (36%) and water (29%) within 3 km, cropland (26%), bare terrain (22%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and grassland (48%) and cropland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
131 m
16 km
751 m
80 km
4,812 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewater
Nearby: Buston 9.0 km · Khujand 15 km · Proletar 27 km · Istiqlol 36 km · Suluktu 41 km · Bekobod 45 km · Razzakov 53 km · Konibodom 54 km

Tajikistan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 28% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,637
2025
Happiness
5.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
65%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.9
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
15.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 409
Religion
Muslim 98%

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 Qayroqqum (40.266°, 69.7959°, elevation 362 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).