Climate and average weather in Oýrat

In Oýrat, 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 Oýrat typically varies from -6°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -16°C or above 40°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 Oýrat for warm-weather activities are from early April to mid May and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Mar
16 mm
Driest
Aug
1 mm
Rain / yr
97 mm
25 wet days
Daylight
8.9–15.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
83 m
41.9°N
Clearest
Aug
10% cloud

Oýrat 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 Oýrat, 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 9 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Oýrat is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 20 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 8°C. The coldest month of the year in Oýrat is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 2°C.

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

-20°-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-6
Feb5-5
Mar132
Apr229
May2915
Jun3419
Jul3521
Aug3419
Sep2713
Oct206
Nov100
Dec3-5

How hot and cold Oýrat 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, Oýrat feels like about 36°C (around July 11). About 85 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -11°C (around January 20), with roughly 140 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 40 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan22-11-6
Feb55-9-5
Mar1313-22
Apr222289
May28291515
Jun34341919
Jul35352121
Aug33341919
Sep27271313
Oct202046
Nov1010-40
Dec33-9-5

Average hourly temperature in Oýrat

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Oýrat 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°102.61.99.30.0
Feb / -5°112.41.110.30.4
Mar13° / 163.70.611.74.3
Apr22° / 163.4013.17.7
May29° / 15°113.2014.36.8
Jun34° / 19°41.40154.1
Jul35° / 21°20.9014.73.1
Aug34° / 19°10.2013.74.5
Sep27° / 13°20.5012.38.3
Oct20° / 61.60.110.97.9
Nov10° / -0°92.30.39.62.8
Dec / -5°92.31.290.0

Chance of rain

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

Oýrat gets about 97 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 7.2 months, from around Oct 26 to May 31, peaking in March at about 13% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 10.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 16 mm over about 4 wet days; August is the driest, with 1 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainMar 21 · 13%Aug 10 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan83
Feb82
Mar124
Apr113
May113
Jun51
Jul31
Aug10
Sep21
Oct52
Nov72
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Oýrat collects about 97 mm of rain across 25 wet days — roughly 8 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 16 mm, while August is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10111616114212699
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1032
Feb1121
Mar1641
Apr1630
May1130
Jun410
Jul210
Aug100
Sep210
Oct620
Nov920
Dec921

Snow in Oýrat

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.

Oýrat averages about 5 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 26 to Mar 21 — about 3.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.8 days of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 17 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 15
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan26
Feb14
Mar12
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Oýrat, 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 18 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 26. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 27 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 17. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 56% 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 5 · 98%Jan 17 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb4951
Mar5248
Apr5941
May7030
Jun8911
Jul955
Aug973
Sep928
Oct7723
Nov6040
Dec5149

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 19, brings about 15 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 19, 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)
Jan9.38:325:48
Feb10.38:066:24
Mar11.77:217:00
Apr13.16:277:35
May14.35:468:08
Jun15.05:308:32
Jul14.75:438:29
Aug13.76:137:56
Sep12.36:467:03
Oct10.97:206:11
Nov9.67:585:33
Dec9.08:285:25

Sunny days

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

Oýrat 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 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around May 23 to Oct 26. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 10 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1328 daysJan 159 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May17Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul27Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
Sep25Brilliant
Oct21Bright
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 Oýrat, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 8% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 13 · 100%Jul 17 · 91%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9910
May9280
Jun75223
Jul50428
Aug70264
Sep9630
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 Oýrat is steady company: average speeds sit near 11 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 24 · 13 km/hOct 28 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb12calm
Mar13light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Oýrat

In seasonPeak

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

Oýrat 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 Oýrat

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 26 · 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
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.5poor
Mar4.3fair
Apr7.7ideal
May6.8good
Jun4.1fair
Jul3.1poor
Aug4.5fair
Sep8.2ideal
Oct7.8ideal
Nov2.9poor
Dec0.0poor

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 Oýrat for hot-weather activities run from early May to late June and again from early August to late September, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 8 · 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 Oýrat, 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 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Oýrat sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Oýrat 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 Oýrat peaks around June 17 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 17UV 9Dec 17UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr5High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul7Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Oýrat

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
Feb00
Mar3.50
Apr60
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul7.54
Aug7.54
Sep60
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Oýrat 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 Oýrat is worst in March — around 50 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.0× the cleanest month (January, 25 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModeratePoorModerateMar 2049 µg/m³Jan 1326 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb35Moderate
Mar50Poor
Apr45Poor
May41Poor
Jun33Moderate
Jul32Moderate
Aug34Moderate
Sep45Poor
Oct40Poor
Nov39Poor
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Oýrat typically lasts about 249 days, from around March 10 to November 13 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 1 to October 20.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1050%Apr 190%Oct 2090%Nov 1350%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1431
Feb2128
Mar6331
Apr970
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9211
Nov4930
Dec1831

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. Oýrat banks about 2,496 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
Mar4
Apr160
May363
Jun497
Jul569
Aug505
Sep308
Oct89
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.

Oýrat receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.7 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 22 to Sep 25. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.7 kWh/m² — roughly 76% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.4 kWhDec 201.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Moderate
Feb3.0Moderate
Mar4.4Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.3Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.2Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.7Dim

Where is Oýrat?

Oýrat sits at 41.9°N, 59.9°E, 83 m above sea level, in Turkmenistan. The nearest listed city is Daşoguz, 13 km away.

Topography around Oýrat

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Oýrat has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 11 m around an average of 83 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 24 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 385 m.

The land around Oýrat is covered by cropland (80%) within 3 km, cropland (68%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (47%) and cropland (41%) within 80 km.

3 km
11 m
16 km
24 m
80 km
385 m
shrubscroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Daşoguz 13 km · Gubadag 15 km · Manghit 23 km · Yylanly 25 km · Boldumsaz 28 km · Görogly 33 km · Gurlan 42 km · Shovot 45 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 Oýrat (41.9458°, 59.9089°, elevation 83 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).