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Samarkand weather by month

Samarkand runs from about 1°C in December to 29°C in July, with May the wettest month at 156 mm.

warmest month

July

29°C

coolest month

December

1°C

wettest month

May

156 mm

worst air month

November

20 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Samarkand
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January5°C59 mm168 h13
February3°C80 mm169 h10
March8°C134 mm209 h14
April15°C83 mm286 h10
May19°C156 mm331 h11
June27°C1 mm394 h14
July29°C0 mm412 h7
August28°C0 mm402 h6
September21°C9 mm336 h9
October15°C68 mm248 h15
November9°C65 mm220 h20
December1°C23 mm220 h14

About 3,395 hours of sun a year. Roughly 68 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-24. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.