Things to Do in Tashkent in March
March weather, activities, events & insider tips
March Weather in Tashkent
Temperature, rainfall and humidity at a glance
Is March Right for You?
Weigh the advantages and considerations before booking
- + March hands Tashkent its sweetest shoulder season—afternoons settle at 16°C/60°F, the first real kiss of spring, yet the summer stampede that later floods Bukhara and Samarkand is still weeks away.
- + Hotel rates stay 30-40% below peak, and the metro carriages are half-empty; you will slide into seats inside the Soviet-era stations, Kosmonavtlar among them, its space-themed mosaics gleaming under soft lights.
- + Across the city, choyxona owners haul tables back outdoors; you sip green tea beneath blossoming apricot branches in Amir Timur Square while chess players slam wooden pieces with crisp, satisfying clacks.
- + March 21 delivers Navruz, the Persian New Year; Navoi Theatre square turns into an open-air stage where dancers in embroidered coats whirl to drums, and the scent of sumalak—wheat-sprout pudding—drifts from every street stall.
- − The season is in transition: 5°C (41°F) mornings bite hard. Locals stride by in fur coats while tourists in thin t-shirts shiver, inside the blue-domed shade of Chorsu Bazaar's market halls.
- − Rain arrives in sudden 20-minute bursts that convert Tashkent's wide Soviet avenues into short-lived rivers; pack a shell or duck into the State Museum of History to study Timurid manuscripts until the sky clears.
- − UV climbs to 8 this far south; the high-altitude sun ricochets off white marble façades and will scorch skin faster than you expect, even when the air still feels gentle.
Year-Round Climate
How March compares to the rest of the year
Best Activities in March
Top things to do during your visit
Thin March crowds let you photograph the Soviet metro without jostling tour groups. Kosmonavtlar’s marble-and-glass vault feels like a space-age cathedral; Alisher Navoi drips with tilework that consumed 12 years of craftsmanship. Arrive before 8 am for empty platforms and the precise echo of on-schedule trains.
Spring produce hits the markets—dill, cilantro, and spring onions announce themselves by scent long before you spot the turquoise dome. Bakers pull sesame-coated lepeshka from clay tandoors while kumis vendors pour fermented mare’s milk for anyone willing to taste Central Asia without the midsummer crush.
Snowmelt swells the mountain streams, so the 90-minute drive to Chimgan waterfalls turns dramatic in March. Juniper forests begin to green, and you can hike to petroglyph sites at 1,500 m (4,921 ft) without the July furnace that later bakes these trails.
March 21 turns Tashkent into one long festival: sunrise horse games in city hippodromes, dusk concerts at Navoi Theatre. Sumalak simmers in wide cauldrons stirred by hand for 12 hours; the caramelizing wheat perfumes entire blocks.
March’s clear morning light, before 10 am, is good for photographing the surviving 19th-century caravanserais such as the gold-domed Kukeldash Madrasah. At 16°C (60°F) you can linger in the courtyards, tracing carved cedar doors traders would have recognized two centuries ago.
March Events & Festivals
What's happening during your visit
The main celebration clusters around Navoi Theatre square: dancers, horse games, and towering sumalak cauldrons. Locals wear atlas silk coats whose embroidery marks their home region. Street stalls dish out samsa and the year’s first spring herbs.
Essential Tips
What to pack, insider knowledge and common pitfalls