Climate averages 1991–2020
Ashgabat weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Ashgabat: daytime highs average 15.9°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (73 km away). In March its highs average 11.7°C, 4.3°C cooler than Ashgabat, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat ranks 5th of 7 for the warmest March highs and 7th of 7 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 7 cities is 16.0°C; Ashgabat is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 22.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 61 mm to 46 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in MarchIran · 73 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 0.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Qūchān in MarchIran · 95 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low -0.6°C · 70 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in MarchIran · 107 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 0.5°C · 71 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in MarchIran · 197 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 2.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Sabzevar in MarchIran · 203 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 4.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Mashhad in MarchIran · 213 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 1.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in MarchIran · 261 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 0.7°C · 70 mm rain
- Gonbad-e Kāvūs in MarchIran · 294 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 5.4°C · 78 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.