According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Mongolia is May and September. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Mongolia
- Best months
- May and September
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- Asia
What Mongolia is best for
Nomadic ger stays, horseback trekking across the steppe, Gobi Desert dunes, and Lake Khövsgöl.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Mongolia by month
Monthly averages around Ulaanbaatar; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −21 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| February | about −18 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| March | about −9 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
| April | about 0 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| May best | about 7 °C | little rain (27 mm) |
| June | about 15 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| July | about 17 °C | some rain (66 mm) |
| August | about 15 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| September best | about 8 °C | little rain (24 mm) |
| October | about −1 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| November | about −11 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
| December | about −19 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Mongolia
- Capital
- Ulaanbaatar
- Language
- Mongolian
- Currency
- Mongolian Tugrik (MNT)
- Time
- UTC+8 (most of the country)
- Plugs
- Type C, E · 220 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +976
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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