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Bulgan in January

Cold and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Bulgan is cold: highs near 21°F, lows near 1°F. Rain or snow is rare, and the days lengthen by 33 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Bulgan is cold: highs near -6°C, lows near -17°C. Rain or snow is rare, and the days lengthen by 33 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
21°F-6°Caverage
Low
1°F-17°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 3% of days
Daylight
9h 18mon average

Is January a good time to visit Bulgan?

January sits outside Bulgan's best months, which run in two parts: May to June, or August to September. Expect cold days and rain or snow on fewer than one day a week.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 21°F in January, against 21°F to 85°F through the year.Highs near -6°C in January, against -6°C to 29°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

3% of days in January, against 3% to 24% through the year.

Cloud cover

33% cover in January, against 30% to 42% through the year.

Daylight

9h 18m in January, against 8h 57m to 15h 25m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with January shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. December25°-4°low 6°low -14°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. January21°-6°low 1°low -17°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. February27°-3°low 5°low -15°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Bulgan sits, in January

Asia/Ulaanbaatar
this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
8:36 AMsets 5:51 PM
Above the sea
1,560 mhigh country
Latitude
43.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Ulaanbaatar511 km north-east

The land around Bulgan, shaded by its typical high in January, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Mongolia in January

high · low · wet days
See January on the planning mapThe whole year in Bulgan

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Bulgan. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.