The climate of Bishkek
Dsa Hot-summer continental with dry summer. Cold winters and hot, dry summers. A rare climate of mountain basins and interiors, with a dry summer and a freezing winter.
Bishkek is north of the equator, so summer falls in June to August and winter in December to February. The 1901 to 1930 map puts Bishkek in the same zone, Dsa.
Bishkek: then, now and by 2100
| Map | Climate zone | Compared with now |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 to 1930 | Dsa Hot-summer continental with dry summer | Same as now |
| 1991 to 2020 (now) | Dsa Hot-summer continental with dry summer | - |
| 2071 to 2099, SSP1-2.6 (low emissions) | Dsa Hot-summer continental with dry summer | Same as now |
| 2071 to 2099, SSP2-4.5 (middle of the road) | Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean | Different from now |
| 2071 to 2099, SSP5-8.5 (high emissions) | Csa Hot-summer Mediterranean | Different from now |
The 2071 to 2099 rows are model projections under three emissions scenarios, not forecasts. The 1901 to 1930 row is a reconstruction. All come from Beck et al. (2023).
Under the middle-of-the-road scenario (SSP2-4.5), the model puts Bishkek in Csa (hot-summer mediterranean) in 2071 to 2099, instead of Dsa now. Under the high-emissions scenario (SSP5-8.5) it is Csa (hot-summer mediterranean).
Cities with the same climate as Bishkek
Other big cities that are Dsa (hot-summer continental with dry summer) in 1991 to 2020, at most two per country:
- Kabul, Afghanistan
Where Bishkek's future climate exists today
In the SSP2-4.5 map for 2071 to 2099, Bishkek is Csa. These cities are Csa in 1991 to 2020, so they give a rough idea of the future climate (the real conditions would differ in many ways).
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Los Angeles, United States
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Ankara, Turkey
- Perth, Australia
- Algiers, Algeria
- Rome, Italy
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Population of Bishkek from GeoNames: 900,000 (rank 647 in our list of 1,000). Climate data: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0. Data sources and licences.