Samarkand weather by month: averages, rainfall & climate trends
Samarkand swings through a wide annual range, with 25.8°C between the monthly means of its warmest and coldest months. Rain here skips the warm season: the bulk of it falls from November to May. Samarkand weather by month: average temperatures, rainfall, records and how the climate has changed since 1940.
Today vs average
−5.1°Chigh well below average
How it's changed
+0.7°Caverage temperature, 2016–2025 vs 1940–1949average temperature vs 1940–4973frost days a year now (2016–2025) · 102 in the 1940sfrost days a year · 102 in the 1940s96days above 30°C a year now (2016–2025) · 108 in the 1940sdays above 30°C · 108 in the 1940s+0.7°C vs the 1940s · see how it's changed →Weather by montha typical year, averaged over the full recordJanuary, rain 65 mmhigh 5°low −4°February, rain 73 mmhigh 8°low −3°March, rain 105 mmhigh 13°low 2°April, rain 92 mmhigh 20°low 8°May, rain 47 mmhigh 25°low 12°June, rain 11 mmhigh 31°low 16°July, rain 4 mmhigh 33°low 18°August, rain 2 mmhigh 32°low 16°September, rain 4 mmhigh 27°low 11°October, rain 26 mmhigh 21°low 6°November, rain 47 mmhigh 13°low 1°December, rain 60 mmhigh 7°low −3°wettest month March, 105 mm · 536 mm a yearsee month by month →Right now
What it's doing today vs the historical average for this date.Right now
15.3°
On this date: October 12
High well below average · −5.1°C
- Record high: 32.1° · 1945
- Record low: −2.3° · 1985
- One year ago: 28° / 11°
Every October 12 in history, coldest to hottest
Dots show daily highs (top) and lows (bottom) for each October 12 on record (n = 87). Outlined dots are today's forecast.
Area we sample
Each city's history comes from one ERA5 grid cell, about 28 km across, shown by the dashed box. Near mountains or coasts, conditions can vary across the cell.
Location & data
Historical weather for Samarkand is sampled from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at 39.65°N, 66.96°E, with daily records since 1940.
- Coordinates
- 39.65°N, 66.96°E
- Time zone
- Asia/Samarkand
- Period
- 1940–2026
- Data source
- ERA5 (ECMWF)
Last 30 days
28 of the last 31 days were warmer than the historical average for that date. Average difference: +3.0°C.
Each bar is one day, from morning low to afternoon high. Warm-colored bars are days whose mean ran above average; cool bars ran below. The dot inside the bar is the daily mean. The shaded band is the typical 10–90% range expected for that date. Average = the day's mean temperature averaged across every year of record (1940–2026) for that calendar date.
This date over the years
One dot per year, showing the mean temperature on this calendar date. Dots are warmer or cooler than the long-term average (dashed line); the shaded band is the typical 10–90% range, and the highlighted dot is today's forecast. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Weather by month
Average temperatures and rainfall for each month: a typical year, from the full record.Climate overview
The warmest month is July, with typical afternoon highs of 33.2°C and nights around 17.6°C. In a typical recent year, around 95 days reach 30°C or more. At the other extreme, January brings afternoon highs of about 5.1°C and typical overnight lows of −4.5°C.
Samarkand picks up roughly 536 mm a year, with a peak of 105 mm in March and as little as 2 mm in August.
The record here starts in 1940, and since then the annual mean in Samarkand has climbed 0.7°C from the first ten years to the last ten. Where the first decade averaged 100 frost days a year, the recent one saw about 75.
Climate graph (climograph)
July is the warmest month, January the coolest: a yearly swing of 26°C. Wettest month: March (~105 mm). Whole year averages ~536 mm of rain.
Bars = average monthly rainfall (right axis). Lines = average daily high and low (left axis). Average = each month's value averaged across every year of record (1940–2026).
Rainy days by month
About 62 rainy days a year: most in March (~11), fewest in August (almost none).
Bars = average number of days with ≥ 2 mm per month. Hover for the monthly rainfall total.
Monthly wind
Average daily peak wind at 10 m, by month.
Monthly solar energy
Average daily incoming solar energy in megajoules per square metre: the record's own proxy for how sunny the month is.
Samarkand month by month: what to expect
Typical conditions for each month, averaged across the full record (since 1940). Daylight is the time from sunrise to sunset. Record high/low are the most extreme values in the ERA5 dataset (modelled since 1940), so they can differ from official weather-station readings.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain | Rainy days | Daylight | Record high | Record low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1° | −4.5° | 65 mm | 8 | 9.5 h | 20.0° (2002) | −26.5° (1969) |
| February | 7.6° | −2.8° | 73 mm | 9 | 10.5 h | 24.3° (2016) | −22.8° (2014) |
| March | 13.2° | 2.1° | 105 mm | 11 | 11.7 h | 29.8° (2000) | −18.2° (1954) |
| April | 19.7° | 7.5° | 92 mm | 9 | 13.1 h | 34.2° (2025) | −9.9° (1945) |
| May | 25.4° | 11.6° | 47 mm | 5 | 14.2 h | 37.5° (1946) | −1.2° (1989) |
| June | 30.9° | 15.6° | 11 mm | 1 | 14.8 h | 42.7° (1941) | 6.2° (1949) |
| July | 33.2° | 17.6° | 4 mm | 0 | 14.5 h | 43.7° (1944) | 8.6° (1968) |
| August | 31.8° | 15.9° | 2 mm | 0 | 13.6 h | 41.8° (1940) | 8.1° (1968) |
| September | 27.3° | 11.2° | 4 mm | 1 | 12.2 h | 39.0° (1947) | 0.0° (1973) |
| October | 20.6° | 5.9° | 26 mm | 3 | 10.9 h | 36.3° (1941) | −6.9° (1982) |
| November | 13.2° | 1.0° | 47 mm | 6 | 9.8 h | 30.4° (2017) | −24.4° (1950) |
| December | 7.2° | −2.6° | 60 mm | 8 | 9.2 h | 22.9° (1987) | −21.9° (1990) |
How it's changed
Year-by-year signals from 1940 to today.Climate stripes
Annual mean shifted from 1940–1949 to 2016–2025 by +0.7°C.
Each vertical stripe is one year. Color encodes how much that year's annual mean differed from the long-term average. Average = each year's annual mean compared to the average of all years (1940–2026). cooler ← → warmer
Annual mean temperature
Long-term trend: +0.14°C per decade.
One point per year, showing the temperature averaged across the whole year. The dashed line is the least-squares long-term trend. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Seasonal warming
Dec–Feb is warming fastest: +0.24°C per decade.
Each faint line is one three-month period's average per year; the bold dashed line is its long-term trend. Different parts of the year often warm at different rates. Based on ERA5 reanalysis: modelled estimates, not station readings.
Hot days vs frost days
Days ≥ 30°C per year: 107.7 early in the record → 96.0 recently. Frost days: 102 → 73.
Thin lines are raw yearly counts; thick lines are the smoothed trend that removes year-to-year noise. The hot-day threshold is auto-picked per city so the line actually moves. Average = a centered 5-year rolling average to smooth weather noise.
Yearly hot & cold extremes
All-time high in 1944, all-time low in 1969: 43.7°C / −26.5°C.
One point per year: the single hottest and coldest day recorded that year.
Annual rainfall
~536 mm/year on average. Last decade: −6% vs that average. Long-term trend: +4 mm per decade.
One bar per year of total rainfall. Dashed line is the long-term average. Average = the average annual rainfall across every year of record (1940–2026).
Day-by-day grid
Each tiny square is one calendar day across the full record, about 30,000 days per city. Use the mode switch above the chart: Anomaly colors each day by how far it ran from the historical average for that date (red = warmer, blue = cooler), Daily mean temp shows the absolute mean temperature for the day (useful to see seasons and heatwaves), and Precipitation shows daily rainfall (useful to spot wet/dry seasons and droughts). Average = the long-term average for that calendar date (1940–2026).
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