Climate averages 1991–2020
Shahrisabz weather
in March.
A cool, 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 cool month in Shahrisabz: daytime highs average 14.2°C and nights cool to about 2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 112 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes March a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samarkand (67 km away). In March its highs average 13.9°C, about as warm as Shahrisabz, with 96 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Uzbekistan, Shahrisabz ranks 19th of 28 for the warmest March highs and 28th of 28 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 28 cities is 14.7°C; Shahrisabz is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 20.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 112 mm to 97 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
Shahrisabz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Samarkand in MarchUzbekistan · 67 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 96 mm rain
- Qarshi in MarchUzbekistan · 93 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 4.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Kattaqo’rg’on Shahri in MarchUzbekistan · 106 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 2.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Denov in MarchUzbekistan · 128 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 3.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Jizzax in MarchUzbekistan · 147 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 3.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Navoiy in MarchUzbekistan · 169 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 4.4°C · 48 mm rain
- Dushanbe in MarchTajikistan · 178 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 135 mm rain
- Tirmiz in MarchUzbekistan · 208 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 39 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.