Weekly note

Best time to visit Uzbekistan

2 destinations in Uzbekistan, each scored month by month, side by side.

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

April and September are the best months: each a sweet spot at both places.

The destinations

Month by month

Place JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Samarkand 8° 11° 16° 21° 28° 34° 37° 35° 30° 22° 14° 9°
Tashkent 7° 10° 16° 22° 28° 34° 37° 35° 29° 21° 13° 7°
Sweet spots 001210002000

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.

Routes through Uzbekistan

Before you go

Cost of livingvery cheap — prices run about 29% of the United States' (World Bank, 2025)
CurrencyUzbek som
LanguagesUzbek
PlugsType C and F and I, 220 V
DrivingOn the right
Calling code+998
Travel advice No advice against travel — UK Foreign Office, updated 2026-03-19
HealthUK Foreign Office health advice

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank, refreshed 2026-10-07. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

On arrival

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

Sources (13)

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 Uzbekistan as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.