Climate averages 1991–2020
Ashgabat weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Ashgabat: daytime highs average 22.1°C and nights cool to about 10.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 46 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (73 km away). In April its highs average 18.3°C, 3.8°C cooler than Ashgabat, with 38 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat 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 22.8°C; Ashgabat is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 46 mm to 23 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
Ashgabat climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 30 | 6.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 10.3°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 44 | 8.2 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 61 | 10.2 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 22.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 46 | 8.0 | 13.213 h |
| May | 28.2°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 23 | 4.4 | 14.214 h |
| June | 33.8°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 4.4 | 1.3 | 14.715 h |
| July | 36.3°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 1.5 | 0.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 35.0°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 1.6 | 0.3 | 13.614 h |
| September | 29.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 2.6 | 0.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 22.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 10 | 2.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 14.6°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 25 | 5.0 | 10.210 h |
| December | 9.7°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 21 | 5.1 | 9.610 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
- Shīrvān in AprilIran · 73 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 6.7°C · 38 mm rain
- Qūchān in AprilIran · 95 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 5.2°C · 65 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in AprilIran · 107 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 6.0°C · 61 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in AprilIran · 197 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 7.7°C · 46 mm rain
- Sabzevar in AprilIran · 203 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 10.0°C · 31 mm rain
- Mashhad in AprilIran · 213 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 7.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in AprilIran · 261 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 6.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Gonbad-e Kāvūs in AprilIran · 294 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 10.0°C · 63 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 Ashgabat) is explained once on the Ashgabat year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.