Climate and average weather in Gurlan

In Gurlan, 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 Gurlan typically varies from -6°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 39°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 Gurlan for warm-weather activities are from early April to mid May and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Apr
16 mm
Driest
Aug
1 mm
Rain / yr
96 mm
25 wet days
Daylight
9.0–15.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
92 m
41.8°N
Clearest
Aug
9% cloud

Gurlan is town in Uzbekistan.

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

Gurlan 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 Gurlan, 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 8 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in Gurlan 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 26, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Gurlan 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 June.

-20°-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2-6
Feb6-4
Mar132
Apr229
May2915
Jun3419
Jul3521
Aug3319
Sep2713
Oct206
Nov100
Dec4-4

How hot and cold Gurlan 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, Gurlan feels like about 35°C (around July 4). About 83 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 23), with roughly 139 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 35 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)
Jan22-10-6
Feb66-9-4
Mar1313-22
Apr222289
May28291515
Jun34341919
Jul35352121
Aug33331919
Sep27271313
Oct202046
Nov1010-40
Dec44-9-4

Average hourly temperature in Gurlan

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

Gurlan 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°102.829.30.0
Feb / -5°112.81.110.30.5
Mar13° / 163.30.411.74.5
Apr22° / 163.6013.17.7
May29° / 15°132.9014.36.9
Jun34° / 19°41.40154.2
Jul35° / 21°20.6014.73.3
Aug33° / 19°10.2013.74.8
Sep27° / 13°20.5012.38.4
Oct20° / 61.8010.97.9
Nov10° / -0°92.80.49.62.9
Dec / -5°82.1190.0

Chance of rain

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

Gurlan gets about 96 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 5.3 months, from around Dec 23 to Jun 1, peaking in March at about 13% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 8.

April 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainMar 25 · 13%Aug 8 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb93
Mar113
Apr124
May93
Jun51
Jul21
Aug10
Sep21
Oct62
Nov93
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gurlan collects about 96 mm of rain across 25 wet days — roughly 8 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 16 mm, while August is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10111616134212698
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1032
Feb1131
Mar1630
Apr1640
May1330
Jun410
Jul210
Aug100
Sep210
Oct620
Nov930
Dec821

Snow in Gurlan

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.

Gurlan averages about 5 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 25 to Mar 15 — about 3.6 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.9 days of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 16 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 17
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan26
Feb14
Mar02
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 Gurlan, 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 5.4 months, ending around October 27. 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 28 and lasts for 6.6 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 10 · 98%Jan 15 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb4951
Mar5248
Apr5941
May7129
Jun9010
Jul964
Aug973
Sep937
Oct7822
Nov6139
Dec5347

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 15 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 hours — a swing of roughly 6 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.38:295:46
Feb10.38:036:23
Mar11.77:196:58
Apr13.16:257:32
May14.35:448:05
Jun15.05:288:29
Jul14.75:418:27
Aug13.76:117:54
Sep12.36:447:01
Oct10.97:186:09
Nov9.67:565:32
Dec9.08:255:24

Sunny days

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

Gurlan 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 22 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 66% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1028 daysJan 129 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May17Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep26Brilliant
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 Gurlan, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 11% 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 20 · 87%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9910
May9280
Jun73243
Jul444511
Aug63325
Sep9540
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 Gurlan 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 29 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb11calm
Mar12light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep11calm
Oct10calm
Nov10calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Gurlan

In seasonPeak

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

Gurlan 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 Gurlan

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Gurlan 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 Gurlan 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
Feb0.6poor
Mar4.4fair
Apr7.6ideal
May6.9good
Jun4.2fair
Jul3.3poor
Aug4.9fair
Sep8.3ideal
Oct7.8ideal
Nov2.9poor
Dec0.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 7 · 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 Gurlan, 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, Gurlan sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Gurlan 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 Gurlan peaks around June 17 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 17UV 9Dec 18UV 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 Gurlan

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
Mar40
Apr60
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul7.54
Aug7.54.5
Sep60
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Gurlan 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 Gurlan is worst in March — around 55 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.2× the cleanest month (January, 26 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 2154 µg/m³Jan 1226 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb37Poor
Mar55Unhealthy
Apr51Poor
May48Poor
Jun40Poor
Jul40Poor
Aug44Poor
Sep54Poor
Oct44Poor
Nov42Poor
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Gurlan typically lasts about 250 days, from around March 10 to November 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 30 to October 22.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1050%Mar 3090%Oct 2290%Nov 1450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb2128
Mar6428
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct939
Nov4930
Dec1731

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. Gurlan banks about 2,468 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
Mar5
Apr162
May362
Jun494
Jul561
Aug493
Sep302
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.

Gurlan receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.8 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 1.8 kWh/m² — roughly 76% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 37.4 kWhDec 201.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Moderate
Feb3.1Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.2Bright
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.8Dim

Where is Gurlan?

Gurlan sits at 41.8°N, 60.4°E, 92 m above sea level, in Uzbekistan. The nearest listed city is Shovot, 22 km away.

Topography around Gurlan

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gurlan has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 8 m around an average of 91 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 375 m.

The land around Gurlan is covered by cropland (51%) and artificial surfaces (45%) within 3 km, cropland (76%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (50%) and cropland (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
8 m
16 km
19 m
80 km
375 m
shrubscroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Shovot 22 km · Beruniy 34 km · Qo’shko’pir 35 km · Daşoguz 35 km · Urganch 38 km · Manghit 41 km · Oýrat 42 km · Görogly 45 km

Uzbekistan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,968
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
82%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.4
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
11.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 439
Religion
Muslim 88%Eastern Orthodox 9%other 3%

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 Gurlan (41.8412°, 60.3927°, elevation 92 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).