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Ashgabat · 1,030,063 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:15

Air: Moderate

18°

Clear sky

Feels like 18°C

Wind

11 km/h

Gusts

19 km/h

Humidity

39 %

Pressure

1022 hPa

Clouds

4 %

Storm

Rise 07:28 Set 18:11 Day 10 h 42 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

14°11°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ SW 5 km/h

Humidity 52 %

23:00

11°

SW 5

02:00

8°

SW 5

Ashgabat forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.0° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Ashgabat climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 27 towns of 20,000+ people in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat has the highest yearly rainfall.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 35 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 380 mm of rain — less than 92% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Nights typically freeze in January and February, the coldest averaging −1 °C in January.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	7 °C	−1 °C	35 mm
Feb	9 °C	0 °C	50 mm
Mar	15 °C	5 °C	73 mm
Apr	20 °C	11 °C	68 mm
May	26 °C	16 °C	47 mm
Jun	32 °C	21 °C	15 mm
Jul	35 °C	24 °C	6 mm
Aug	34 °C	22 °C	5 mm
Sep	29 °C	17 °C	7 mm
Oct	22 °C	11 °C	16 mm
Nov	14 °C	5 °C	30 mm
Dec	9 °C	1 °C	26 mm
Whole year	21 °C	11 °C	380 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.95° N, 58.38° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Ashgabat: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.524µg/m³

PM1026µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ashgabat

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ashgabat, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Ashgabat yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Ashgabat

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 23:18 Set 14:18

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Ashgabat); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Ashgabat

Curious about the weather in Ashgabat on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Ashgabat weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ashgabat, Ashgabat: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 8 °C to 18 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations