Bukhara weather by month & the best time to visit
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · regional city · cold desert climate
The best time to visit Bukhara is September — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 98/100), with October and April close behind. Bukhara averages about 3,117 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 31°C / 88°F and roughly 0 mm of rain in September.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,117
- Sunniest month
- September
- Peak score
- 98/100
- Rain / year
- 138 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈19 cm
- Midday UV at peak
- 9 (very high)
- Population
- 319k
- Elevation
- 227 m
When is the best time to visit Bukhara?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Bukhara is September, then October and April. The dullest month is January (0/100, 16 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Bukhara?
Bukhara is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,117 hours of sunshine a year. 98 Sunshine Score points separate September (98) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #3 of 12 destinations in Uzbekistan for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,957 hours. Rain has a clear season: the wettest stretch, around March, carries about 56% of the annual 138 mm.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 6° / 43°F | -5° / 23°F | 16 mm | 1 |
| February | 8 | 9° / 48°F | -3° / 27°F | 27 mm | 2 |
| March | 69 | 17° / 63°F | 3° / 37°F | 27 mm | 4 |
| April | 93 | 25° / 77°F | 9° / 48°F | 23 mm | 6 |
| May | 86 | 33° / 91°F | 17° / 63°F | 10 mm | 8 |
| June | 39 | 38° / 100°F | 22° / 72°F | 2 mm | 9 |
| July | 29 | 39° / 102°F | 24° / 75°F | 0 mm | 9 |
| August | 49 | 37° / 99°F | 21° / 70°F | 0 mm | 8 |
| September | 98 | 31° / 88°F | 14° / 57°F | 0 mm | 6 |
| October | 97 | 22° / 72°F | 7° / 45°F | 5 mm | 4 |
| November | 39 | 13° / 55°F | 1° / 34°F | 15 mm | 2 |
| December | 0 | 6° / 43°F | -4° / 25°F | 13 mm | 1 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Samarkand Uzbekistan · 214 km · best in Sep · 2,936 h sun/yr
- Urgench Uzbekistan · 381 km · best in Sep · 3,100 h sun/yr
- Dushanbe Tajikistan · 398 km · best in Sep · 2,806 h sun/yr
- Tashkent Uzbekistan · 438 km · best in Sep · 2,929 h sun/yr
- Khujand Tajikistan · 447 km · best in Sep · 2,919 h sun/yr
- Shymkent Kazakhstan · 508 km · best in Sep · 2,974 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Navoi Uzbekistan · 70 km · 3,091 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Türkmenabat Turkmenistan · 123 km · 3,219 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Karshi Uzbekistan · 155 km · 3,130 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Mary Turkmenistan · 328 km · 3,269 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Zomin Uzbekistan · 336 km · 2,884 h sun/yr · best in Sep
Head-to-head
How Bukhara compares month by month: Bukhara vs Mashhad · Bukhara vs Dushanbe · Bukhara vs Samarkand · Bukhara vs Urgench · all comparisons
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