Climate averages 1991–2020
Kashgar weather
in April.
A warm, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the 4th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Kashgar: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 8.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 9.8 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes April a very dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 13 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Artux (32 km away). In April its highs average 21.8°C, 0.6°C cooler than Kashgar, with 7.7 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kashgar ranks joint 273rd of 884 for the warmest April highs and 20th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Kashgar is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 9.8 mm to 22 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Kashgar climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.0°C-9.1°C | -9.1°C | 4.6 | 1.2 | 9.710 h |
| February | 5.3°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 9.9 | 2.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 14.0°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 13 | 3.0 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 22.4°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 9.8 | 2.5 | 13.213 h |
| May | 27.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 22 | 3.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 31.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 17 | 3.8 | 14.915 h |
| July | 33.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 16 | 3.7 | 14.715 h |
| August | 31.0°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 26 | 4.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 24 | 4.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.1°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 10.1°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 7.5 | 1.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 1.8°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 5.0 | 1.2 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Artux in AprilChina · 32 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 7.5°C · 7.7 mm rain
- Shache in AprilChina · 159 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 8.7°C · 4.7 mm rain
- Tumxuk in AprilChina · 267 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 9.9°C · 4.2 mm rain
- Osh in AprilKyrgyzstan · 296 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 5.8°C · 106 mm rain
- Andijon in AprilUzbekistan · 342 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 8.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Quvasoy in AprilUzbekistan · 354 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 7.8°C · 101 mm rain
- Shahrixon in AprilUzbekistan · 362 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 9.5°C · 47 mm rain
- Fergana in AprilUzbekistan · 373 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 41 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kashgar) is explained once on the Kashgar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.