Weekly note
Samarkand
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Photo by Bernard Gagnon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high11°C
Nightly low0°C
Feels like, afternoon8°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more8 · 70 mm
Humidity70%
Sunshine6.6 h/day
Daylight10.7 h/day
Crowds100 / 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 Registan, 5 km from the airport (SKD): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

February: quiet. Busiest in September, October and December; quietest from January to March.

Public holidays in February

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

Samarkand in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -0°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 8 or so rainy days.

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

Before you go

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

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

February elsewhere

In February from

The other months at Samarkand

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