Climate and average weather in Zarhalol

In Zarhalol, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late September to early November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Zarhalol typically varies from 1°C to 38°C, and is rarely below -5°C or above 41°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 Zarhalol for warm-weather activities is from late September to early November.

Hottest
Jul
38°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Apr
48 mm
Driest
Aug
1 mm
Rain / yr
278 mm
59 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
414 m
37.5°N
Clearest
Aug
5% cloud

Zarhalol 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 September to early November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Zarhalol, 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 19 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in Zarhalol is July, with an average high of 38°C and low of 24°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 22 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 14°C. The coldest month of the year in Zarhalol is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 9°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan91
Feb122
Mar177
Apr2413
May3018
Jun3622
Jul3824
Aug3622
Sep3117
Oct2411
Nov166
Dec112

How hot and cold Zarhalol 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, Zarhalol feels like about 38°C (around July 9). About 108 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -2°C (around January 10), with roughly 59 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan99-11
Feb121202
Mar171767
Apr24241313
May30301818
Jun36362222
Jul38382424
Aug36362122
Sep31311717
Oct24241111
Nov161656
Dec111102

Average hourly temperature in Zarhalol

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Zarhalol 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 / 286.61.99.72.0
Feb12° / 408.42.210.63.0
Mar17° / 479.10.911.75.6
Apr24° / 13°488.70.112.96.9
May30° / 18°448.60145.2
Jun36° / 22°164.3014.52.6
Jul38° / 24°20.5014.31.5
Aug36° / 22°10.2013.42.9
Sep31° / 17°10.2012.36.3
Oct24° / 11°71.90118.7
Nov16° / 2250.5105.8
Dec11° / 235.31.49.52.9

Chance of rain

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

Zarhalol gets about 278 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 5.5 months, from around Dec 29 to Jun 12, peaking in April at about 32% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 4.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 48 mm over about 9 wet days; August is the driest, with 1 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetApr 29 · 32%Sep 4 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan217
Feb298
Mar299
Apr299
May289
Jun144
Jul21
Aug10
Sep10
Oct72
Nov165
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Zarhalol collects about 278 mm of rain across 59 wet days — roughly 23 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 48 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.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec28404748441621172223
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2872
Feb4082
Mar4791
Apr4890
May4490
Jun1640
Jul210
Aug100
Sep100
Oct720
Nov2251
Dec2351

Snow in Zarhalol

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.

Zarhalol averages about 7 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 13 to Mar 23 — about 4.3 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 10 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 30 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 4
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan27
Feb210
Mar14
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov13
Dec16

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Zarhalol, 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 14 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around November 2. 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 3 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around May 13. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 59% 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 28 · 100%Jan 26 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4258
Feb4159
Mar4555
Apr5446
May7327
Jun937
Jul991
Aug991
Sep982
Oct8515
Nov6139
Dec5050

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 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 9 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.77:465:27
Feb10.67:255:59
Mar11.76:466:28
Apr12.95:596:56
May14.05:237:24
Jun14.55:117:45
Jul14.35:227:43
Aug13.45:487:15
Sep12.36:156:29
Oct11.06:425:43
Nov10.07:145:11
Dec9.57:415:06

Sunny days

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

Zarhalol averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around May 22 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 9 sunny days — about 69% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 230 daysFeb 289 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May17Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov15Mixed
Dec12Mixed

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 Zarhalol, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in June, 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
Apr90101
May76213
Jun78183
Jul81172
Aug87121
Sep9730
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 Zarhalol is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 29 · 7 km/hSep 23 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Zarhalol

In seasonPeak

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

Zarhalol sees seasonal dust haze (May–June), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Zarhalol

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Zarhalol 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 Zarhalol for general outdoor tourist activities is from late September to early November, with a peak score in the second week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 13 · 9.0

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
Jan2.1poor
Feb3.1poor
Mar5.6good
Apr6.9good
May5.2fair
Jun2.6poor
Jul1.5poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep6.3good
Oct8.6ideal
Nov5.8good
Dec2.9poor

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 Zarhalol for hot-weather activities is from late August to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 22 · 9.3

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 Zarhalol, 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 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 9°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Zarhalol sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Zarhalol 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 Zarhalol peaks around July 12 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 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 highModerateJul 12UV 10Jan 1UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Zarhalol

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 July 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
Feb3.50
Mar50
Apr6.52.5
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep6.53.5
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Zarhalol 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 Zarhalol is worst in May — around 39 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.0× the cleanest month (January, 20 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMay 1239 µg/m³Jan 1520 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar32Moderate
Apr37Poor
May39Poor
Jun33Moderate
Jul31Moderate
Aug29Moderate
Sep32Moderate
Oct31Moderate
Nov26Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Zarhalol is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 7 to November 22 (261 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 790%Nov 2290%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan5731
Feb6928
Mar956
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov949
Dec7031

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. Zarhalol banks about 3,249 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar74
Apr260
May437
Jun566
Jul640
Aug578
Sep415
Oct235
Nov45
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.

Zarhalol receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.3 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 30 to Sep 30. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.4 kWh/m² — roughly 69% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 77.7 kWhDec 222.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.3Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May6.9Intense
Jun7.6Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov2.9Moderate
Dec2.3Moderate

Where is Zarhalol?

Zarhalol sits at 37.5°N, 68.2°E, 414 m above sea level, in Tajikistan. The nearest listed city is Moskovskiy, 40 km away.

MoskovskiyKolkhozobodQarāwulVakhshBokhtarSho‘rchiTermezDenov

Topography around Zarhalol

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Zarhalol has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 129 m around an average of 419 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,253 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,985 m.

The land around Zarhalol is covered by cropland (62%) within 3 km, grassland (56%) within 16 km, and grassland (45%), bare terrain (27%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
129 m
16 km
1,253 m
80 km
1,985 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Moskovskiy 40 km · Kolkhozobod 45 km · Qarāwul 60 km · Vakhsh 65 km · Bokhtar 68 km · Sho‘rchi 68 km · Termez 83 km · Denov 92 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 Zarhalol (37.4647°, 68.1695°, elevation 414 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).