Climate averages 1991–2020

Khujand weather
in March.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 15.7°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 5.7°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 64 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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March is a mild month in Khujand: daytime highs average 15.7°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bekobod (31 km away). In March its highs average 15.2°C, about as warm as Khujand, with 65 mm of rain.

Among the 7 cities listed in Tajikistan, Khujand ranks 3rd of 7 for the warmest March highs and 4th of 7 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 7 cities is 14.1°C; Khujand is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 6.7°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 68 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Khujand climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Khujand, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 7.4°C-0.1°C-0.1°C326.79.710 h
February 9.4°C0.8°C0.8°C468.610.611 h
March, selected 15.7°C5.7°C5.7°C6410.211.912 h
April 22.3°C11.1°C11.1°C6810.613.213 h
May 28.6°C16.0°C16.0°C377.314.414 h
June 34.3°C20.5°C20.5°C144.215.015 h
July 36.4°C23.1°C23.1°C5.41.414.715 h
August 34.8°C21.8°C21.8°C2.80.713.814 h
September 29.6°C16.9°C16.9°C7.01.512.513 h
October 22.0°C11.0°C11.0°C214.111.211 h
November 14.3°C5.6°C5.6°C417.010.010 h
December 8.7°C1.6°C1.6°C377.79.49 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

March in nearby cities

Distance from Khujand

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 Khujand) is explained once on the Khujand year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.