Climate averages 1991–2020

Almaty weather
in July.

A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 26.6°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 14.0°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 71 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a warm month in Almaty: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 03 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Karakol (147 km away). In July its highs average 19.5°C, 7.1°C cooler than Almaty, with 97 mm of rain.

Among the 26 cities listed in Kazakhstan, Almaty ranks 16th of 26 for the warmest July highs and 24th of 26 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 26 cities is 28.7°C; Almaty is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 25.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 57 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Almaty climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Almaty, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	-1.8°C-8.7°C	-8.7°C	27	6.5	9.49 h
February	0.4°C-6.9°C	-6.9°C	39	7.8	10.510 h
March	6.7°C-1.9°C	-1.9°C	80	12.5	11.912 h
April	14.0°C2.8°C	2.8°C	138	14.9	13.413 h
May	19.4°C7.2°C	7.2°C	145	15.6	14.715 h
June	24.0°C11.6°C	11.6°C	93	13.0	15.315 h
July, selected	26.6°C14.0°C	14.0°C	71	10.2	15.015 h
August	25.9°C13.2°C	13.2°C	57	8.9	14.014 h
September	21.2°C9.0°C	9.0°C	54	9.5	12.513 h
October	14.0°C2.3°C	2.3°C	61	9.8	11.111 h
November	5.7°C-4.0°C	-4.0°C	52	8.6	9.810 h
December	0.1°C-7.8°C	-7.8°C	34	7.2	9.09 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Almaty

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Almaty) is explained once on the Almaty year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.