Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in Kazakhstan.

ClimaNote covers 26 cities in Kazakhstan, starting with Almaty, Astana and Shymkent. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 6.5°C in Petropavl to 19.3°C in Turkistan, and yearly precipitation from 121 mm in Baikonur to 852 mm in Almaty. The hottest city-month is July in Turkistan, with an average high of 35.2°C, and the coolest is January in Petropavl, at -12.2°C. By single month, the most precipitation falls in May in Almaty, with 145 mm, and the least in September in Turkistan, with 2.0 mm.

July is the warmest month in every city; January is the coolest in every city. July is the wettest month in 11 cities, April in 5, May in 3, March in 2, October in 1 and November in 1 (in 3 other cities two or more months tie); January is the driest in 8 cities, August in 6, September in 6 and February in 4 (in 2 other cities two or more months tie). Of these cities, 22 have a month with an average high below 2.0°C; none has a month with under 1 mm of precipitation or a month with more than 300 mm of precipitation.