Climate averages 1991–2020
Ashgabat weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Ashgabat: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about -0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (73 km away). In January its highs average 3.8°C, 4.8°C cooler than Ashgabat, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat ranks 3rd of 7 for the warmest January highs and 7th of 7 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 7 cities is 8.0°C; Ashgabat is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 44 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in JanuaryIran · 73 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -5.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Qūchān in JanuaryIran · 95 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -7.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in JanuaryIran · 107 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -4.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in JanuaryIran · 197 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -3.3°C · 32 mm rain
- Sabzevar in JanuaryIran · 203 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -1.3°C · 21 mm rain
- Mashhad in JanuaryIran · 213 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -3.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in JanuaryIran · 261 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -5.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Gonbad-e Kāvūs in JanuaryIran · 294 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 1.5°C · 52 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.