Climate and average weather in Tursunzoda

In Tursunzoda, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late August to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tursunzoda typically varies from -5°C to 31°C, and is rarely below -12°C or above 35°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 Tursunzoda for warm-weather activities are from mid May to mid June and late August to late October.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Mar
92 mm
Driest
Aug
1 mm
Rain / yr
510 mm
80 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
707 m
38.5°N
Clearest
Aug
13% cloud

Tursunzoda is city in Tajikistan.

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

Tursunzoda 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 August to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 24 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Tursunzoda is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 26 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 10°C. The coldest month of the year in Tursunzoda is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 6°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in September.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan6-5
Feb7-3
Mar132
Apr197
May2411
Jun2914
Jul3116
Aug3015
Sep2610
Oct205
Nov131
Dec7-3

How hot and cold Tursunzoda 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 -6°C (around January 26), with roughly 116 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan56-5-5
Feb77-5-3
Mar131312
Apr191967
May24241111
Jun29291414
Jul31311616
Aug30301515
Sep26261010
Oct202055
Nov131301
Dec77-3-3

Average hourly temperature in Tursunzoda

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

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

Tursunzoda 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 / -5°609.889.60.2
Feb / -3°8011.27.510.51.0
Mar13° / 9213.13.911.73.3
Apr19° / 8511.51.1135.8
May24° / 11°579.30.114.17.2
Jun29° / 14°133.2014.66.9
Jul31° / 16°40.9014.45.9
Aug30° / 15°10.5013.56.8
Sep26° / 10°40.8012.39.0
Oct20° / 173.50.2117.7
Nov13° / 477.42.89.93.9
Dec / -4°528.75.89.41.1

Chance of rain

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

Tursunzoda gets about 510 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 6.6 months, from around Nov 9 to May 29, peaking in March at about 43% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 3.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 92 mm over about 13 wet days; August is the driest, with 1 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 10 · 43%Sep 3 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb4011
Mar4213
Apr3812
May309
Jun123
Jul31
Aug21
Sep31
Oct124
Nov247
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tursunzoda collects about 510 mm of rain across 80 wet days — roughly 43 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 92 mm, while August is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec608092855713414174752
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan60108
Feb80118
Mar92134
Apr85121
May5790
Jun1330
Jul410
Aug110
Sep410
Oct1740
Nov4773
Dec5296

Snow in Tursunzoda

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.

Tursunzoda averages about 29 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 26 to Apr 21 — about 5.9 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 41 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 137 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 14
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan835
Feb841
Mar420
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov312
Dec626

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tursunzoda, 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 17 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around October 31. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 1 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around May 16. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 62% 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 14 · 99%Feb 3 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3961
Feb3862
Mar4060
Apr5149
May6733
Jun9010
Jul991
Aug991
Sep964
Oct7921
Nov5644
Dec4654

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 14, brings about 14 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 9 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.67:495:24
Feb10.57:265:57
Mar11.76:466:27
Apr13.05:576:57
May14.15:217:26
Jun14.65:077:47
Jul14.45:197:46
Aug13.55:467:16
Sep12.36:146:29
Oct11.06:435:41
Nov9.97:165:08
Dec9.47:435:03

Sunny days

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

Tursunzoda 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 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around May 29 to Oct 30. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 8 sunny days — about 71% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 329 daysMar 118 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Mixed
Mar8Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May14Mixed
Jun22Bright
Jul29Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep27Brilliant
Oct21Bright
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 Tursunzoda, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, 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
May9820
Jun9371
Jul77203
Aug85142
Sep9910
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.

Wind in Tursunzoda is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 8 · 5 km/hOct 6 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Tursunzoda

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Tursunzoda's rainy season runs November–May, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Tursunzoda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 21 · 9.1

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
Jan0.2poor
Feb1.1poor
Mar3.3poor
Apr5.8good
May7.2good
Jun6.9good
Jul6.0good
Aug6.9good
Sep8.9ideal
Oct7.7ideal
Nov4.0fair
Dec1.1poor

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 Tursunzoda for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 26 · 9.4

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 Tursunzoda, 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 31°C), the essentials are light clothes 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, Tursunzoda sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 16°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Tursunzoda 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 Tursunzoda peaks around June 16 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 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 highModerateJun 16UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May10Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Tursunzoda

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 8.5 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
Feb30
Mar50
Apr73
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Tursunzoda 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 Tursunzoda is worst in May — around 35 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.5× the cleanest month (January, 14 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 1535 µg/m³Jan 1214 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan14Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar26Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May35Poor
Jun30Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep30Moderate
Oct28Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Tursunzoda typically lasts about 257 days, from around March 6 to November 17 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 2 to October 20.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 650%Apr 290%Oct 2090%Nov 1750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1731
Feb2928
Mar6731
Apr974
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9312
Nov5630
Dec2231

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. Tursunzoda banks about 1,789 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr88
May230
Jun345
Jul424
Aug381
Sep243
Oct78
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.

Tursunzoda receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.1 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 30 to Oct 1. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.2 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.3 kWhDec 172.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.4Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May6.4Intense
Jun7.1Intense
Jul7.2Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov2.6Moderate
Dec2.1Moderate

Where is Tursunzoda?

Tursunzoda sits at 38.5°N, 68.2°E, 707 m above sea level, in Tajikistan. The nearest listed city is Hisor, 28 km away.

DenovDushanbeBoshkengashVahdatSho‘rchiYovonBokhtar

Topography around Tursunzoda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tursunzoda has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 89 m around an average of 709 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,319 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,053 m.

The land around Tursunzoda is covered by cropland (50%) and artificial surfaces (38%) within 3 km, cropland (45%) and grassland (41%) within 16 km, and grassland (68%) within 80 km.

3 km
89 m
16 km
1,319 m
80 km
5,053 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icemoss and lichen
Nearby: Hisor 28 km · Denov 40 km · Dushanbe 48 km · Boshkengash 50 km · Vahdat 68 km · Sho‘rchi 69 km · Yovon 74 km · Bokhtar 89 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 Tursunzoda (38.5127°, 68.2316°, elevation 707 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).