Baikonur weather by month & the best time to visit

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · small town · cold desert climate

The best time to visit Baikonur is September — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 96/100), with May close behind. Baikonur averages about 2,915 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 26°C / 79°F and roughly 3 mm of rain in September.

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Sun hours / year

2,915

Sunniest month

September

Peak score

96/100

Rain / year

131 mm

Snow / year

≈54 cm

Midday UV at peak

7 (high)

Population

70k

Elevation

99 m

When is the best time to visit Baikonur?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Baikonur is September, then May. The dullest month is January (0/100, 12 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Baikonur?

Baikonur gets a lot of sun: around 2,915 hours a year. 96 Sunshine Score points separate September (96) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #8 of 24 destinations in Kazakhstan for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,719 hours. The year's 131 mm of rain spreads fairly evenly across the months, with no pronounced dry season.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Urgench Uzbekistan · 494 km · best in Sep · 3,100 h sun/yr
• Shymkent Kazakhstan · 618 km · best in Sep · 2,974 h sun/yr
• Bukhara Uzbekistan · 658 km · best in Sep · 3,117 h sun/yr
• Aktobe Kazakhstan · 681 km · best in Aug · 2,609 h sun/yr
• Tashkent Uzbekistan · 689 km · best in Sep · 2,929 h sun/yr
• Samarkand Uzbekistan · 727 km · best in Sep · 2,936 h sun/yr

Nearest destinations

• Kyzylorda Kazakhstan · 213 km · 3,068 h sun/yr · best in Sep
• Zhezkazgan Kazakhstan · 416 km · 2,981 h sun/yr · best in Sep
• Nukus Uzbekistan · 451 km · 2,956 h sun/yr · best in Sep
• Turkıstan Kazakhstan · 495 km · 3,073 h sun/yr · best in Sep
• Daşoguz Turkmenistan · 508 km · 3,106 h sun/yr · best in Sep