Climate averages 1991–2020
Sarqant weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Sarqant: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 52 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Taldykorgan (129 km away). In May its highs average 22.2°C, 2.7°C warmer than Sarqant, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 26 cities listed in Kazakhstan, Sarqant ranks 20th of 26 for the warmest May highs and 25th of 26 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 26 cities is 21.7°C; Sarqant is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 23.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 50 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
Sarqant climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.2°C-11.4°C | -11.4°C | 28 | 6.4 | 9.29 h |
| February | 0.1°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 30 | 6.7 | 10.410 h |
| March | 5.8°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 48 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.0°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 66 | 10.6 | 13.513 h |
| May, selected | 19.5°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 71 | 10.8 | 14.915 h |
| June | 23.9°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 50 | 8.7 | 15.616 h |
| July | 25.9°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 53 | 8.9 | 15.315 h |
| August | 25.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 38 | 6.3 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 31 | 5.7 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.4°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 41 | 7.2 | 11.011 h |
| November | 5.4°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 50 | 8.4 | 9.610 h |
| December | -0.3°C-10.1°C | -10.1°C | 35 | 7.8 | 8.89 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
- Taldykorgan in MayKazakhstan · 129 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Qarasu in MayChina · 140 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 9.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Huocheng in MayChina · 169 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 10.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Bole in MayChina · 178 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 10.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Ghulja in MayChina · 200 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 10.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Tacheng in MayChina · 277 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 8.4°C · 33 mm rain
- Almaty in MayKazakhstan · 339 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 7.2°C · 145 mm rain
- Xinyuan in MayChina · 345 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 80 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 Sarqant) is explained once on the Sarqant year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.