When is the best time to visit Kyrgyzstan?

Most guides agree on May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct. Bishkek: May to June, and September to October (high summer is 35°C on the plain and the time to be up in the mountains). Karakol: June to September for the mountains (the lake is swum in high summer; the town skis all winter). Song-Köl: June to September (the passes are snow the rest of the year and the yurts come down). Osh: April to May, and September to October (summer is 38°C in the Fergana valley).

When is the rainy season in Kyrgyzstan?

No guide in Kyrgyzstan has a month above 250 mm; the wet months are wet, not under water.

Kyrgyzstan travel tips

Best time to visit Kyrgyzstan

Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Kyrgyzstan agrees on May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct.

Place	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D	In words
BishkekMay to June, and September to October (high summer is 35°C on the plain and the time to be up in the mountains)													May to June, and September to October (high summer is 35°C on the plain and the time to be up in the mountains)
KarakolJune to September for the mountains (the lake is swum in high summer; the town skis all winter)													June to September for the mountains (the lake is swum in high summer; the town skis all winter)
Song-KölJune to September (the passes are snow the rest of the year and the yurts come down)													June to September (the passes are snow the rest of the year and the yurts come down)
OshApril to May, and September to October (summer is 38°C in the Fergana valley)													April to May, and September to October (summer is 38°C in the Fergana valley)

best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.

The guides in Kyrgyzstan

The White House, the government building on Ala-Too square in Bishkek

BishkekKyrgyzstanThe greenest Soviet capital, a grid of poplars under 4,000-metre peaks, and the base for the most beautiful mountains in Central Asia

A river valley in the Tien Shan above Karakol, green meadow and snow peaks

KarakolKyrgyzstanA frontier town at the far end of Issyk-Kul, a wooden mosque built by Dungans, a Russian church, and every trek in the Tien Shan starting from it

A yurt and a horse on the grass plateau at Song-Köl, cloud over the lake

Song-KölKyrgyzstanA lake at 3,000 metres on a plateau of grass, yurts and horses and nothing else, where the herders spend the summer and you can too

Osh from the air, the city spread across the Fergana valley

OshKyrgyzstanThe oldest city in Central Asia, a sacred mountain in the middle of it, a bazaar that has run for two thousand years, and the door to the Pamir Highway