Best time to visit Mongolia
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 Mongolia agrees on Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.
| Place | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gobi DesertJune to September (spring is dust storms and autumn is cold; the camps close in winter) | June to September (spring is dust storms and autumn is cold; the camps close in winter) | ||||||||||||
| UlaanbaatarJune to September (winter is minus thirty and the coal smoke; the Naadam festival is in high summer) | June to September (winter is minus thirty and the coal smoke; the Naadam festival is in high summer) | ||||||||||||
| Lake KhövsgölJune to September (the lake freezes solid through the winter, and the ice festival in early spring is the other reason to come) | June to September (the lake freezes solid through the winter, and the ice festival in early spring is the other reason to come) | ||||||||||||
| TereljJune to September (the park is open in winter and beautiful in snow, but the gers are cold) | June to September (the park is open in winter and beautiful in snow, but the gers are cold) |
best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.
The guides in Mongolia
Gobi DesertMongoliaSand dunes that sing, flaming red cliffs full of dinosaur eggs, an ice canyon in the desert, and a week in a 4x4 between them
UlaanbaatarMongoliaThe coldest capital on earth, half of it gers on the hillsides, a monastery that survived the purges, and the only city in a country of horses
Lake KhövsgölMongoliaA lake with two per cent of the world’s fresh water, larch forest to the shore, reindeer herders in the taiga behind, and no road round it
TereljMongoliaThe steppe an hour from the capital: granite tors, a turtle rock, a monastery up a hillside, and a ger to sleep in with horses outside