Ideal weather days in Ashgabat
The best time to visit Ashgabat for warm, dry weather is April and September to November, with 19 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Ashgabat's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April and September to November.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Ashgabat, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot107
- Too cold106
- Too wet22
- Too windy22
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Ashgabat averaged 138 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Turkmenistan, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September (up to 22 a month, 68 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in November (up to 14 a month, 58 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 107 a year, mostly in June, July and August. Another 106 are too cold (a high under 18 °C), mostly in December, January and February. A day can fail more than one test.
Ashgabat weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 °C 49 °F | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 of 31 |
| February | 11 °C 51 °F | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 of 28 |
| March | 21 °C 70 °F | 4 | 2 | 9 | 17 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 81 °F | 2 | 2 | 7 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 32 °C 89 °F | 6 | 3 | 11 | 13 of 31 |
| June | 37 °C 99 °F | 1 | 5 | 13 | 4 of 30 |
| July | 39 °C 102 °F | 0 | 4 | 20 | 1 of 31 |
| August | 38 °C 100 °F | 0 | 3 | 21 | 3 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 0 | 1 | 22 | 22 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 77 °F | 4 | 1 | 15 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 20 °C 67 °F | 3 | 0 | 11 | 19 of 30 |
| December | 10 °C 50 °F | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 of 31 |
| Year | 30 | 22 | 159 | 138 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 148 warm, dry days
- 2024 136 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Ashgabat for good weather?
The best time to visit Ashgabat for warm, dry weather is April and September to November, with 19 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in September (up to 22 a month, 68 a year). Counted from measured days at Ashgabat station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Ashgabat?
On average 30 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (6 rain days), the driest September (0).
How many sunny days does Ashgabat get a year?
About 159 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in September (22).
How warm does Ashgabat get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (49 °F) in January to 39 °C (102 °F) in July.
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Source: Ashgabat weather station (38880099999), 4 km from the centre of Ashgabat, 211 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.