Climate averages 1991–2020
Kashgar weather
in February.
A cold, very dry month: the 10th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in Kashgar: daytime highs average 5.3°C and nights cool to about -5.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 9.9 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes February a very dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 41 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Artux (32 km away). In February its highs average 4.6°C, 0.7°C cooler than Kashgar, with 7.9 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kashgar ranks joint 667th of 884 for the warmest February highs and joint 208th of 884 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 884 cities is 9.0°C; Kashgar is 3.8°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 8.8°C to 14.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 9.9 mm to 13 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Artux in FebruaryChina · 32 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -5.4°C · 7.9 mm rain
- Shache in FebruaryChina · 159 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -4.8°C · 1.6 mm rain
- Tumxuk in FebruaryChina · 267 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -4.5°C · 2.0 mm rain
- Osh in FebruaryKyrgyzstan · 296 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -5.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Andijon in FebruaryUzbekistan · 342 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -2.2°C · 35 mm rain
- Quvasoy in FebruaryUzbekistan · 354 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -1.3°C · 58 mm rain
- Shahrixon in FebruaryUzbekistan · 362 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -1.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Fergana in FebruaryUzbekistan · 373 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 27 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.