WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020
Almaty Climate — Averages by Month
What the weather in Almaty, KZaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.
Month-by-month normals
| Month | Avg temperature | Avg rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | -9.1 °C · coldest | 31.7 mm |
| February | -6.5 °C | 43.7 mm |
| March | 0.1 °C | 86.5 mm |
| April | 6.9 °C | 141.6 mm |
| May | 11.8 °C | 148.5 mm · wettest |
| June | 16.1 °C | 96.5 mm |
| July | 18.3 °C · warmest | 73.7 mm |
| August | 17.2 °C | 59.5 mm |
| September | 12.7 °C | 57.2 mm |
| October | 6.0 °C | 64.1 mm |
| November | -1.4 °C | 55.3 mm |
| December | -7.0 °C | 38.5 mm |
How to read these numbers
These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Almaty — centred at 43.25°N, 77.00°E. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.
“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.