Climate averages 1991–2020
Ashgabat weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Ashgabat: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 21 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 35 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (73 km away). In December its highs average 6.7°C, 2.9°C cooler than Ashgabat, with 18 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat ranks 3rd of 7 for the warmest December highs and 7th of 7 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 7 cities is 9.0°C; Ashgabat is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 8.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 21 mm to 30 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in DecemberIran · 73 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -2.2°C · 18 mm rain
- Qūchān in DecemberIran · 95 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -3.9°C · 22 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in DecemberIran · 107 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -2.3°C · 27 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in DecemberIran · 197 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low -1.2°C · 23 mm rain
- Sabzevar in DecemberIran · 203 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 0.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Mashhad in DecemberIran · 213 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low -1.5°C · 20 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in DecemberIran · 261 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -2.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Gonbad-e Kāvūs in DecemberIran · 294 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 3.3°C · 36 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.