Russia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Shamkhal-Termen.

September leads for comfortable weather in Shamkhal-Termen: typically 24.3°C by day, 16.4°C at night, with 52 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.3°C

Typical low16.4°C

Rain in September52 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

92climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

97climate match

Outdoors

May

May · October · April

91climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 92 — days reach only 4.1°C, 20° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

54.1° / -1.8°

Feb

54.6° / -1.6°

Mar

258.6° / 2.2°

Apr

5314.4° / 6.7°

May

8420.9° / 12.6°

Jun

8626.5° / 17.5°

Jul

7329.3° / 20.4°

Aug

7229.3° / 20.4°

Sep

9224.3° / 16.4°

Oct

7117.9° / 10.6°

Nov

3210.7° / 3.9°

Dec

106.1° / 0°

Monthly climate evidence for Shamkhal-Termen — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 28 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.1°C	-1.8°C	31 mm	6.2	5.8°C	9 h 20	5	Strong coverage
February	4.6°C	-1.6°C	28 mm	5.5	4.5°C	10 h 27	5	Strong coverage
March	8.6°C	2.2°C	19 mm	4.3	5.1°C	11 h 47	25	Strong coverage
April	14.4°C	6.7°C	17 mm	3.5	9.0°C	13 h 20	53	Strong coverage
May	20.9°C	12.6°C	33 mm	4.5	15.1°C	14 h 38	84	Strong coverage
June	26.5°C	17.5°C	24 mm	4	21.2°C	15 h 21	86	Strong coverage
July	29.3°C	20.4°C	20 mm	3.2	24.7°C	15 h 04	73	Good coverage
August	29.3°C	20.4°C	29 mm	4.4	25.7°C	13 h 56	72	Good coverage
September	24.3°C	16.4°C	52 mm	4.9	22.5°C	12 h 26	92	Good coverage
October	17.9°C	10.6°C	31 mm	4.4	17.9°C	10 h 57	71	Good coverage
November	10.7°C	3.9°C	43 mm	6.1	12.7°C	9 h 39	32	Strong coverage
December	6.1°C	0°C	37 mm	6.9	8.3°C	9 h 01	10	Strong coverage

What has changed

Shamkhal-Termen runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.4

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+1.5

Apr

+0.9

May

+1.4

Jun

+1.7

Jul

+1.5

Aug

+1.9

Sep

—

Oct

+1.6

Nov

-0.5

Dec

+1.1

September daytime highs, 2011–2021. Last recorded: 23.1°C.

Records at MAHACKALA, 1882–2022
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.0°C5 Jan 1976	-25.1°C20 Jan 1893	44 mm16 Jan 1888	115 mm1888 · driest 0 mm in 2005	137
February	20.9°C19 Feb 1958	-26.8°C9 Feb 2012	48 mm16 Feb 1896	117 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1958	139
March	28.8°C31 Mar 1919	-13.5°C3 Mar 1929	25 mm23 Mar 1905	75 mm1898 · driest 0 mm in 2005	139
April	33.5°C13 Apr 1998	-5.1°C5 Apr 2004	68 mm2 Apr 2018	91 mm1904 · driest 0 mm in 1986	139
May	35.1°C28 May 1945	0.0°C10 May 1952	56 mm26 May 2012	85 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2005	140
June	36.8°C25 Jun 2019	5.8°C1 Jun 1900	70 mm3 Jun 1979	152 mm1898 · driest 0 mm in 2005	139
July	39.5°C1 Jul 2018	9.7°C16 Jul 1911	39 mm3 Jul 1942	81 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 2005	139
August	40.2°C9 Aug 2017	8.0°C17 Aug 1898	63 mm21 Aug 1914	128 mm1906 · driest 0 mm in 1888	139
September	35.0°C8 Sep 1929	0.7°C26 Sep 1956	124 mm18 Sep 1995	201 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2007	140
October	28.9°C6 Oct 2001	-6.6°C27 Oct 2001	54 mm7 Oct 2013	245 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1974	140
November	23.1°C4 Nov 1952	-19.7°C17 Nov 1993	75 mm26 Nov 1974	178 mm1954 · driest 1 mm in 2010	140
December	20.1°C27 Dec 1941	-24.6°C26 Dec 1888	49 mm2 Dec 1940	163 mm1938 · driest 2 mm in 1920	140

Typical days per month at MAHACKALA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	15	<1
February	0	0	14	<1
March	0	0	6	<1
April	<1	0	<1	<1
May	5	<1	0	<1
June	20	5	0	<1
July	29	12	0	<1
August	29	12	0	<1
September	13	<1	0	2
October	<1	0	<1	<1
November	0	0	5	1
December	0	0	12	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is May (90). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MAHACKALA’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	21%	2%	23%	0.2–6.2°C
February	0%	21%	2%	21%	0.0–6.8°C
March	<1%	17%	2%	14%	4.6–9.8°C
April	8%	14%	2%	9%	11.9–16.5°C
May	51%	14%	3%	10%	19.1–22.3°C
June	83%	15%	3%	11%	24.1–27.9°C
July	87%	13%	2%	8%	27.2–30.4°C
August	87%	13%	2%	9%	26.8–30.4°C
September	75%	18%	5%	16%	21.5–25.3°C
October	23%	19%	4%	19%	15.2–19.7°C
November	<1%	24%	4%	27%	8.3–12.6°C
December	0%	23%	3%	24%	3.0–8.2°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1913Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 95-year average. Warmest: 1966. Coolest: 1993.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 495891
NOAA station: RSM00037472 · MAHACKALA
Station distance: 20.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.03°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 28 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from MAHACKALA is what differs

Makhachkala→Kaspiysk→Semender→Leninkent→Karabudakhkent→Al’burikent→

Or put two places side by side: Shamkhal-Termen vs Makhachkala

Best time to visitShamkhal-Termen.

September

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Shamkhal-Termen runs +1.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Shamkhal-Termen.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Shamkhal-Termen runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.