Climate averages 1991–2020
Shahrisabz weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Shahrisabz: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about -4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samarkand (67 km away). In January its highs average 6.3°C, 0.6°C cooler than Shahrisabz, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Uzbekistan, Shahrisabz ranks 9th of 28 for the warmest January highs and 28th of 28 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 28 cities is 5.8°C; Shahrisabz is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 8.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 77 mm to 93 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
Shahrisabz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.8°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 77 | 11.6 | 9.810 h |
| February | 8.7°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 93 | 11.9 | 10.711 h |
| March | 14.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 112 | 12.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.1°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 97 | 10.7 | 13.213 h |
| May | 25.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 46 | 6.2 | 14.314 h |
| June | 30.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 7.2 | 1.7 | 14.915 h |
| July | 33.4°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 2.4 | 0.5 | 14.615 h |
| August | 32.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 1.0 | 0.3 | 13.714 h |
| September | 27.4°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 3.5 | 0.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.8°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 19 | 3.5 | 11.211 h |
| November | 13.9°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 51 | 7.2 | 10.110 h |
| December | 9.0°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 59 | 8.9 | 9.59 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
- Samarkand in JanuaryUzbekistan · 67 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -4.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Qarshi in JanuaryUzbekistan · 93 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -1.6°C · 36 mm rain
- Kattaqo’rg’on Shahri in JanuaryUzbekistan · 106 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -2.7°C · 45 mm rain
- Denov in JanuaryUzbekistan · 128 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -2.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Jizzax in JanuaryUzbekistan · 147 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -2.5°C · 42 mm rain
- Navoiy in JanuaryUzbekistan · 169 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Dushanbe in JanuaryTajikistan · 178 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -5.5°C · 80 mm rain
- Tirmiz in JanuaryUzbekistan · 208 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.4°C · 26 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 Shahrisabz) is explained once on the Shahrisabz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.