Almaty from Boston
9,965 km, about 13h 04m in the air. Every month scored for the weather at Almaty and for the holidays that crowd it out at both ends.
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Public holidays at Boston move this destination's year too little to make it a different answer, so the Almaty page is the one of record. This one is kept for the distance and the flight it implies.
No fare history on BOS–ALA yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only. The price column fills in as the scanner collects.
Month by month from Boston
| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Crowds | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | -2° | 4d | 80 | avoid | bitter cold: -2C daily max |
| Feb | 2° | 7d | 100 | avoid | bitter cold: 2C daily max |
| Mar | 11° | 9d | 80 | ok | 11C max, 9 rainy days |
| Apr | 18° | 9d | 100 | good | 18C max, 9 rainy days |
| May | 23° | 8d | 100 | sweet spot | 23C max, 8 rainy days |
| Jun | 28° | 4d | 100 | sweet spot | 28C max, 4 rainy days |
| Jul | 32° | 2d | 100 | sweet spot | 32C max, 2 rainy days |
| Aug | 30° | 3d | 100 | sweet spot | 30C max, 3 rainy days |
| Sep | 24° | 4d | 100 | sweet spot | 24C max, 4 rainy days |
| Oct | 16° | 5d | 80 | good | 16C max, 5 rainy days |
| Nov | 7° | 7d | 80 | ok | 7C max, 7 rainy days |
| Dec | 0° | 5d | 80 | avoid | bitter cold: 0C daily max |
Crowds is a score out of 100 where higher is quieter. It counts public-holiday clusters in US as well as at Almaty, which is why this table differs from the same one read from another country. A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. Crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
The year in Almaty
I do not have sufficient climate data for Almaty to provide a detailed season profile.
This section was written by a language model from the climate figures above, and nobody has checked it. The month-by-month table is measured — ten years of ERA5 readings and published holiday calendars — and where the two disagree, the table is the one to believe.
The rest of the trip
Almaty from anywhere · everywhere from Boston
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