Climate and average weather in Kerki

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

Best: early October to early November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kerki typically varies from 2°C to 40°C, and is rarely below -5°C or above 44°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 Kerki for warm-weather activities are from early April to mid April and early October to early November.

Hottest
Jul
40°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Mar
42 mm
Driest
Aug
0 mm
Rain / yr
194 mm
39 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
244 m
37.8°N
Clearest
Aug
3% cloud

Kerki is city in Lebap Province, Turmenistan.

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

Kerki 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 October to early November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 13 to September 20, with daily high temperatures above 32°C. The hottest month of the year in Kerki is July, with an average high of 40°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 20 to March 1, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Kerki is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 10°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan102
Feb123
Mar198
Apr2614
May3319
Jun3823
Jul4025
Aug3822
Sep3317
Oct2511
Nov176
Dec112

How hot and cold Kerki 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, Kerki feels like about 40°C (around July 11). About 133 days a year carry some heat stress, and 49 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -3°C (around January 14), with roughly 83 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)
Jan1010-32
Feb1212-13
Mar191968
Apr26261414
May33331919
Jun38382323
Jul40402525
Aug38382222
Sep33331717
Oct25251111
Nov171736
Dec1111-12

Average hourly temperature in Kerki

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 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Kerki 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
Jan10° / 265.91.79.72.4
Feb12° / 396.41.310.53.6
Mar19° / 427.70.411.76.2
Apr26° / 14°305.4012.97.2
May33° / 19°142.90144.5
Jun38° / 23°10.4014.61.3
Jul40° / 25°00.1014.40.1
Aug38° / 22°00013.51.2
Sep33° / 17°10.1012.34.8
Oct25° / 11°41.10118.7
Nov17° / 174.10.2106.2
Dec11° / 214.50.99.43.1

Chance of rain

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

Kerki gets about 194 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 6.3 months, from around Nov 3 to May 13, peaking in March at about 26% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 30.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 42 mm over about 8 wet days; August is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetMar 22 · 26%Jun 30 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb236
Mar248
Apr185
May93
Jun10
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct41
Nov134
Dec155

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kerki collects about 194 mm of rain across 39 wet days — roughly 16 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 42 mm, while August is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2639423014100141721
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2662
Feb3961
Mar4280
Apr3050
May1430
Jun100
Jul000
Aug000
Sep100
Oct410
Nov1740
Dec2151

Snow in Kerki

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.

Kerki averages about 5 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Dec 6 to Mar 14 — about 3.3 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.4 day of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 17 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 2
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan25
Feb16
Mar01
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec14

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kerki, 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 9 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around October 31. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 1 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around May 8. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 54% 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 6 · 100%Jan 27 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4654
Feb4654
Mar4951
Apr5941
May7921
Jun964
Jul991
Aug1000
Sep982
Oct8614
Nov6337
Dec5248

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 10, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.77:595:38
Feb10.57:376:10
Mar11.76:586:40
Apr12.96:107:09
May14.05:347:36
Jun14.65:217:58
Jul14.45:337:56
Aug13.55:597:27
Sep12.36:266:41
Oct11.06:545:54
Nov10.07:275:22
Dec9.47:545:17

Sunny days

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

Kerki averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around May 15 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 10 sunny days — about 66% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 730 daysJan 2710 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May20Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct25Brilliant
Nov16Bright
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 Kerki, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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
Mar9910
Apr9271
May88102
Jun9541
Jul9451
Aug9730
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 Kerki is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.5 months, from around Jun 6 to Aug 21. The windiest month is July, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 22 to Jan 2, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 15 · 17 km/hOct 8 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep12light breeze
Oct12calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Kerki

In seasonPeak

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

Kerki sees seasonal dust haze (April–May), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Kerki

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Kerki 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 Kerki for general outdoor tourist activities run from early April to mid April and again from early October to early November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 18 · 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
Jan2.4poor
Feb3.7fair
Mar6.2good
Apr7.1good
May4.4fair
Jun1.4poor
Jul0.1poor
Aug1.3poor
Sep4.8fair
Oct8.6ideal
Nov6.2good
Dec3.1poor

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 Kerki for hot-weather activities run from mid April to late May and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the first week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 1 · 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 Kerki, 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 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 10°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kerki sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kerki 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 Kerki peaks around June 21 at about 9 (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 highModerateJun 21UV 9Jan 10UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kerki

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 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
Feb30
Mar4.50
Apr60
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Kerki 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 Kerki is worst in April — around 35 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.6× the cleanest month (January, 22 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateApr 1335 µg/m³Jan 1222 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan22Moderate
Feb25Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr35Poor
May32Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Kerki is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 6 to November 15 (255 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 690%Nov 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6331
Feb7328
Mar944
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8815
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. Kerki banks about 3,592 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
Mar101
Apr302
May493
Jun618
Jul691
Aug630
Sep454
Oct255
Nov49
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.

Kerki receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 29 to Sep 29. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.3 kWh/m² — roughly 71% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.9 kWhDec 182.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.5Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr6.0Bright
May7.0Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Kerki?

Kerki sits at 37.8°N, 65.2°E, 244 m above sea level, in Turkmenistan. The nearest listed city is Halaç, 39 km away.

MagdanlyQarqīnAndkhoyBeshkentQarshiG‘uzorKoson

Topography around Kerki

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kerki has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 31 m around an average of 241 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 124 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 833 m.

The land around Kerki is covered by artificial surfaces (34%) and cropland (26%) within 3 km, bare terrain (38%) and cropland (31%) within 16 km, and grassland (42%) and bare terrain (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
31 m
16 km
124 m
80 km
833 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Halaç 39 km · Magdanly 73 km · Qarqīn 87 km · Andkhoy 98 km · Beshkent 116 km · Qarshi 125 km · G‘uzor 126 km · Koson 138 km

Turkmenistan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type B / C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 0% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$6,540
2025
Happiness
5.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2021
Safe drinking water
95%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1
per 100k, 2015
Road deaths
13.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 456
Religion
Muslim 93%Christian 6%

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 Kerki (37.8357°, 65.2106°, elevation 244 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).