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Kashgar in May

goodbusy · a good time to go

The year in Kashgar

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  1. Kashgar in January: avoid
  2. Kashgar in February: ok
  3. Kashgar in March: good
  4. Kashgar in April: sweet spot
  5. Kashgar in May: good, busy
  6. Kashgar in June: sweet spot
  7. Kashgar in July: avoid
  8. Kashgar in August: good, busy
  9. Kashgar in September: good
  10. Kashgar in October: good, busy
  11. Kashgar in November: ok
  12. Kashgar in December: avoid
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May at Kashgar is 28°C by day and 15°C at night, with 2 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. Holidays: CN: Labor Day.

The numbers

Daily high28°C
Nightly low15°C
Feels like, afternoon26°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more2 · 21 mm
Humidity27%
Sunshine11.0 h/day
Daylight14.3 h/day
Days over 35°C0
Crowds63 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the old town (Id Kah), 11 km from the airport (KHG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

May: about usual. Busiest in July, August and October; quietest from January to March.

Public holidays in May

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 28°C.
  • A layer for the evening: 28°C by day, 15°C at night.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and C and I plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Renminbi. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Kashgar: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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