Climate guideThirty-year normals for Goris
Goris climate by month
Warm-summer humid continental · DfbBest Jul–Sep
Annual mean8°day and night
Seasonal swing23°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation722 mm61 wet days a year
39.51° N, 46.34° EElevation 1,351 mUTC+4 · Armenia Standard Time
When to goGoris · weather score
Best timeJul–Sep
October: high / low16° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Goris has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 24° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 2° and lows of -10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 23°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 722 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (114 mm, 9 wet days) and August the driest (39 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 24% in July to 46% in April.
Compared with Yerevan, the capital, Goris is 10.8° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 24° · August
- Coldest nights
- -10° · January
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 24% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 56 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 24 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 2° | 3° | 6° | 13° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 24° | 21° | 16° | 9° | 4° |
| Average low | -10° | -8° | -4° | 2° | 6° | 11° | 13° | 14° | 10° | 5° | -2° | -7° |
| Precipitation | 30 mm | 42 mm | 66 mm | 91 mm | 114 mm | 89 mm | 48 mm | 39 mm | 54 mm | 64 mm | 53 mm | 32 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.2 | 4.2 | 6 | 7.8 | 9.2 | 6.2 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 3.5 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 35% | 42% | 46% | 43% | 32% | 24% | 26% | 32% | 38% | 32% | 29% |
| Daylight | 9h 41 | 10h 43 | 11h 54 | 13h 13 | 14h 20 | 14h 56 | 14h 42 | 13h 45 | 12h 29 | 11h 13 | 10h 02 | 9h 24 |
| Month score | 50 | 46 | 39 | 48 | 68 | 85 | 93 | 93 | 90 | 71 | 46 | 50 |
ivMonth by month
Goris in every month
January50
2° / -10°
30 mm · 3.2 wet days
February46
3° / -8°
42 mm · 4.2 wet days
March39
6° / -4°
66 mm · 6 wet days
April48
13° / 2°
91 mm · 7.8 wet days
May68
17° / 6°
114 mm · 9.2 wet days
June85
21° / 11°
89 mm · 6.2 wet days
July93
24° / 13°
48 mm · 3.1 wet days
August93
24° / 14°
39 mm · 2.9 wet days
September90
21° / 10°
54 mm · 4.1 wet days
October71
16° / 5°
64 mm · 5.6 wet days
November46
9° / -2°
53 mm · 4.9 wet days
December50
4° / -7°
32 mm · 3.5 wet days