Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — October 2026 was warmer than the climatic average in Uzbekistan, while most regions received less rainfall than usual. The exception was Khorezm Region, where monthly rainfall was five to six times above normal, making it the wettest October since meteorological records began, Uzhydromet said.
The average monthly air temperature across most of the country was 1–2.2°C above normal. In the northern regions, desert areas and some parts of Jizzakh and Kashkadarya regions, temperatures remained within the normal range, at 12–17°C. In the south, the average temperature reached 18–21°C.
Daytime temperatures generally ranged from 23°C to 28°C. During the warmest days, temperatures rose to 30–32°C, and to 34–36°C in the south. During brief cold spells, daytime temperatures fell to 15–20°C.
On the coldest nights, temperatures ranged from 1°C to 6°C above zero, and from 7°C to 11°C in the south. In the third ten-day period of the month, the first frosts of the autumn were recorded in the north and desert areas, reaching minus 1–3°C and, in some parts of Karakalpakstan, minus 4–6°C.
Rainfall in October was below the usual level. Rain fell on several days during the first five days of the month, on 11–12 October and on 28–29 October. Precipitation was mostly light or moderate, with daily totals ranging from 0 to 12 mm.
The heaviest rainfall was recorded on 1–2 October in mountainous areas of Tashkent, Kashkadarya and Namangan regions, and on 5 October in the mountainous part of Ferghana Region. Daily precipitation there ranged from 15 to 39 mm.
In Khorezm Region, 16–26 mm of rain fell on 11 October. This set a new record for daily October rainfall in the entire history of meteorological observations.
Overall, most parts of Uzbekistan received 11–45 mm of precipitation during the month, while some mountainous areas of Tashkent Region recorded 49–97 mm.
However, precipitation totalled just 0–10 mm in Navoi and Surkhandarya regions, most of Karakalpakstan, some districts of Kashkadarya, Samarkand and Syrdarya regions, as well as parts of Tashkent, Jizzakh and Bukhara regions.
Monthly precipitation across most of the country amounted to 0–75% of the normal level. In the Ferghana Valley, most districts of Bukhara and Navoi regions, and some parts of Karakalpakstan and Kashkadarya Region, rainfall exceeded the norm by 1.1–3.4 times. In Khorezm Region, it was five to six times above normal.
In addition, on 29 October, a 4 cm snow cover formed for the first time this season near the Oygaing avalanche station. It melted shortly afterwards.
On 13 October, mudflow and flooding events were observed in the Dehkanabad district of Kashkadarya Region.
