Climate averages 1991–2020
Mary 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 Mary: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 0.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 20 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 53 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bayramaly (30 km away). In January its highs average 10.2°C, about as warm as Mary, with 21 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Mary ranks 1st of 7 for the warmest January highs and 5th of 7 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 7 cities is 8.0°C; Mary is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 12.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 20 mm to 29 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
Mary climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 20 | 4.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 12.5°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 29 | 5.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 18.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 38 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 24.9°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 24 | 5.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 31.1°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 9.8 | 2.6 | 14.214 h |
| June | 36.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 1.0 | 0.3 | 14.715 h |
| July | 38.1°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 14.514 h |
| August | 36.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.7°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 6.3 | 1.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 15 | 3.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 11.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 14 | 3.3 | 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
- Bayramaly in JanuaryTurkmenistan · 30 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.2°C · 21 mm rain
- Türkmenabat in JanuaryTurkmenistan · 224 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -1.0°C · 17 mm rain
- Mashhad in JanuaryIran · 245 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -3.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in JanuaryIran · 277 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -5.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Qūchān in JanuaryIran · 298 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -7.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Ashgabat in JanuaryTurkmenistan · 306 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.9°C · 30 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in JanuaryIran · 310 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -3.3°C · 32 mm rain
- Maymana in JanuaryAfghanistan · 322 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -3.5°C · 47 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 Mary) is explained once on the Mary year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.