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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kucha
Kucha climate by month
Cold desert · BWkBest Apr · Sep–Oct
Annual mean11°day and night
Seasonal swing32°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation92 mm31 wet days a year
41.71° N, 82.93° EElevation 1,048 mUTC+6
When to goKucha · weather score
Best timeApr · Sep–Oct
October: high / low18° / 5°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kucha has a cold desert climate (Köppen BWk): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 32° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 0° and lows of -11°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 32°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 92 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (15 mm, 7 wet days) and December the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 22% in October to 39% in May.
Compared with Beijing, the capital, Kucha is 0.5° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · July
- Coldest nights
- -11° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- October · 22% cloud
- Longest day
- 15 h 11 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 10 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 | 0° | 5° | 13° | 21° | 27° | 31° | 32° | 31° | 26° | 18° | 8° | 1° |
| Average low | -11° | -8° | -1° | 6° | 13° | 17° | 19° | 18° | 13° | 5° | -2° | -9° |
| Precipitation | 2 mm | 4 mm | 4 mm | 5 mm | 11 mm | 19 mm | 15 mm | 14 mm | 8 mm | 5 mm | 3 mm | 2 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 5.9 | 3 | 1.1 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 35% | 38% | 35% | 39% | 38% | 28% | 24% | 24% | 22% | 24% | 26% |
| Daylight | 9h 28 | 10h 36 | 11h 53 | 13h 19 | 14h 31 | 15h 11 | 14h 56 | 13h 54 | 12h 32 | 11h 09 | 9h 52 | 9h 10 |
| Month score | 57 | 55 | 67 | 94 | 83 | 56 | 52 | 60 | 89 | 96 | 56 | 57 |
ivMonth by month
Kucha in every month
January57
0° / -11°
2 mm · 0.6 wet day
February55
5° / -8°
4 mm · 0.5 wet day
March67
13° / -1°
4 mm · 0.4 wet days
April94
21° / 6°
5 mm · 1.5 wet days
May83
27° / 13°
11 mm · 2.6 wet days
June56
31° / 17°
19 mm · 6.9 wet days
July52
32° / 19°
15 mm · 7.2 wet days
August60
31° / 18°
14 mm · 5.9 wet days
September89
26° / 13°
8 mm · 3 wet days
October96
18° / 5°
5 mm · 1.1 wet day
November56
8° / -2°
3 mm · 1 wet day
December57
1° / -9°
2 mm · 0.3 wet days