Climate averages 1991–2020
Kashgar weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kashgar: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 13.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Artux (32 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, 0.7°C cooler than Kashgar, with 16 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kashgar ranks joint 204th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 25th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Kashgar is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 31.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 22 mm to 17 mm.
The annual picture
May 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 | 22.4°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 9.8 | 2.5 | 13.213 h |
| May, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Artux in MayChina · 32 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 12.7°C · 16 mm rain
- Shache in MayChina · 159 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 13.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Tumxuk in MayChina · 267 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 9.2 mm rain
- Osh in MayKyrgyzstan · 296 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 10.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Andijon in MayUzbekistan · 342 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 13.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Quvasoy in MayUzbekistan · 354 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 12.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Shahrixon in MayUzbekistan · 362 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 42 mm rain
- Fergana in MayUzbekistan · 373 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 13.7°C · 31 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.