Tashikuergan weather by month & the best time to visit
🇨🇳 China · small town · cold desert climate
The best time to visit Tashikuergan is August — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 95/100), with July and June close behind. Tashikuergan averages about 2,950 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 22°C / 72°F and roughly 9 mm of rain in August.
Jump to: month-by-month table · nearby alternatives · embed this data
- Sun hours / year
- 2,950
- Sunniest month
- August
- Peak score
- 95/100
- Rain / year
- 79 mm
- Snow / year
- ≈74 cm
- Midday UV at peak
- 10 (very high)
- Population
- 9k
- Elevation
- 3,252 m
.jpg)
When is the best time to visit Tashikuergan?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Tashikuergan is August, then July and June. The dullest month is January (0/100, 5 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Tashikuergan?
Tashikuergan gets a lot of sun: around 2,950 hours a year. 95 Sunshine Score points separate August (95) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #45 of 254 destinations in China for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,110 hours. Rain is a non-event in Tashikuergan — about 79 mm in a typical year.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | -4° / 25°F | -16° / 3°F | 5 mm | 2 |
| February | 0 | -1° / 30°F | -14° / 7°F | 5 mm | 3 |
| March | 0 | 4° / 39°F | -8° / 18°F | 5 mm | 5 |
| April | 8 | 9° / 48°F | -1° / 30°F | 7 mm | 7 |
| May | 47 | 14° / 57°F | 2° / 36°F | 11 mm | 9 |
| June | 87 | 19° / 66°F | 5° / 41°F | 9 mm | 9 |
| July | 94 | 22° / 72°F | 7° / 45°F | 11 mm | 10 |
| August | 95 | 22° / 72°F | 6° / 43°F | 9 mm | 9 |
| September | 63 | 16° / 61°F | 3° / 37°F | 8 mm | 8 |
| October | 8 | 9° / 48°F | -1° / 30°F | 3 mm | 5 |
| November | 0 | 3° / 37°F | -8° / 18°F | 3 mm | 3 |
| December | 0 | -2° / 28°F | -13° / 9°F | 3 mm | 2 |
See Tashikuergan on the interactive sunshine globe →
Nearby places for sunshine
- Shache China · 168 km · best in Apr · 3,167 h sun/yr
- Kashgar China · 219 km · best in Apr · 3,028 h sun/yr
- Osh Kyrgyzstan · 392 km · best in Sep · 2,957 h sun/yr
- Hotan China · 410 km · best in Oct · 3,347 h sun/yr
- Srinagar India · 411 km · best in Oct · 2,619 h sun/yr
- Tumxuk China · 422 km · best in Apr · 3,140 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Gilgit Pakistan · 212 km · 2,532 h sun/yr · best in Oct
- Skardu Pakistan · 259 km · 2,127 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Chitral Pakistan · 368 km · 2,899 h sun/yr · best in Jun
Put the Tashikuergan sunshine badge on your site
A compact badge showing Tashikuergan's sunshine at a glance — free to embed under CC BY 4.0. Paste this wherever you'd like it to appear:
Live preview — this is exactly what your readers see: