Climate averages 1991–2020
Dushanbe weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Dushanbe: daytime highs average 19.4°C and nights cool to about 6.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 141 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bokhtar (78 km away). In April its highs average 23.4°C, 4.0°C warmer than Dushanbe, with 51 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Tajikistan, Dushanbe ranks 5th of 7 for the warmest April highs and 7th of 7 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 7 cities is 20.4°C; Dushanbe is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 141 mm to 120 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Dushanbe climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.1°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 80 | 11.5 | 9.810 h |
| February | 7.9°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 111 | 13.2 | 10.711 h |
| March | 13.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 135 | 15.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 19.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 141 | 14.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 23.8°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 120 | 14.0 | 14.214 h |
| June | 28.8°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 38 | 8.0 | 14.815 h |
| July | 32.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 13 | 2.7 | 14.615 h |
| August | 31.7°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 5.2 | 1.5 | 13.714 h |
| September | 27.6°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 11 | 1.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.7°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 31 | 5.5 | 11.211 h |
| November | 13.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 67 | 8.6 | 10.110 h |
| December | 8.3°C-3.7°C | -3.7°C | 72 | 10.5 | 9.510 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
April in nearby cities
- Bokhtar in AprilTajikistan · 78 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 11.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Denov in AprilUzbekistan · 82 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Kŭlob in AprilTajikistan · 112 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 8.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Istaravshan in AprilTajikistan · 154 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 5.3°C · 115 mm rain
- Shahrisabz in AprilUzbekistan · 178 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 7.1°C · 97 mm rain
- Bekobod in AprilUzbekistan · 192 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 9.0°C · 67 mm rain
- Jizzax in AprilUzbekistan · 196 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 9.1°C · 63 mm rain
- Tirmiz in AprilUzbekistan · 197 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 30 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 Dushanbe) is explained once on the Dushanbe year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.