Climate averages 1991–2020
Ashgabat weather
in May.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Ashgabat: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 16.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 12 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (73 km away). In May its highs average 23.1°C, 5.1°C cooler than Ashgabat, with 23 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat ranks 6th of 7 for the warmest May highs and 7th of 7 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 7 cities is 29.3°C; Ashgabat is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.6°C to 33.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 23 mm to 4.4 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in MayIran · 73 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 11.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Qūchān in MayIran · 95 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 10.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in MayIran · 107 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 10.6°C · 40 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in MayIran · 197 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 12.2°C · 36 mm rain
- Sabzevar in MayIran · 203 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 15.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Mashhad in MayIran · 213 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 12.6°C · 34 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in MayIran · 261 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 11.9°C · 34 mm rain
- Gonbad-e Kāvūs in MayIran · 294 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 15.0°C · 34 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.