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Mongolia has a very dry climate with extreme and widely fluctuating inland, continental, temperatures. Mongolia has four distinct seasons with long, cold, and dry winters and  short, warm and wet summers. With an average of 260 sunny days a year, it’s hardly surprising that Mongolia is known as ”The Land of the Blue Sky”. while winter temperatures in the north drop as low as -25C (-13F), Mongolia’s summers – when most tourists visit – are generally pleasant. Spring is notoriously unpredictable and autumn is regarded by Mongolians as the best time of a year.  Almost precipitation comes in the summer, a popular time for tourism. Mongolians do tend to love rain, and the infrequent, short-lived sprinkles and summer thunderstorms are generally a delight, not least because Mongolia’s wide-open expanses make rainbows astoundingly common.

When is the best season to travel to Mongolia? Given the extreme continental climate which reigns in Mongolia, the best season extends from the middle of May to the end of September. During this period, the temperatures are very pleasant and days are long. By mid-July Mongolia is in full summer mode. The rains begin. The entire countryside is brightly green and dotted with wildflowers. Rivers flow and waterfalls run. Crops are growing and animals fattening.  This is also a time of celebration, especially the ”Naadam festival” where everyone  competes in the ”three manly sports” of horse racing, archery and wrestling.  From middle of August less tourists than in July.  Temperatures can drop at mid-September. Be ready for snow as well as for 20° temperatures. Almost no tourists at all and incredible autumn colors in the larch forests at the end of the month. During the rest of the year, it is still possible to travel to Mongolia, you will just have to be ready for very low temperatures (down to -25°C) with very little snow.