The Silk Road

Across the Caucasus and Central Asia, from Tbilisi to the Tian Shan. 4 stops, 2,748 km end to end as the crow flies.

The stops, in order

• Tbilisi Georgia · best Jun, Aug, Oct
• Baku Azerbaijan · best Apr, Jun, Jul
• Tashkent Uzbekistan · best Jun, Sep, Oct
• Almaty Kazakhstan · best Jun, Jul, Aug

Month by month

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high, from the same ten years of climate readings its page is built from. A dot marks a busy month. The last row counts the sweet spots, and the best months are marked.

Between the stops

Distances are great-circle and the flight time is estimated from them. A road, train or bus line is listed only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, trains and buses from public timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each stop's page are where prices live.

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about The Silk Road as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.