# Baruun-Urt

Baruun-Urt (Mongolian: Баруун-Урт; ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠤᠷᠲᠤ, west-long) is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km² (2008). It forms an enclave within the surrounding Sükhbaatar sum.
Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine lies about 13 km north of the town.

## Population

Baruun-Urt city proper population :
| 1959 est. | 1969 census | 1979 census | 1989 census | 1994 est. | 2000 census | 2006 est. | 2008 est. |
| 6,000 | 8,000 | 11,600 | 16,100 | 17,289 | 15,133 | 12,000 | 12,944 |

## Transportation

The Baruun-Urt Airport (UUN/ZMBU) has paved runway and cars There is a charter flight connecting the city to the capital when there are passengers. Usually MIAT, Mongolian Airlines doesn't fly to remote provinces especially to Sukhbaatar province but other two local airlines sometimes do. Recently some small airlines which has up to 8 seats started flying to suburban areas.

## Climate

Baruun-Urt experiences a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with long, very dry, frigid winters and short, very warm summers.
Climate data for Baruun-Urt, elevation 981 m (3,219 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1960–present) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 0.6 (33.1) | 7.3 (45.1) | 22.0 (71.6) | 29.9 (85.8) | 36.4 (97.5) | 39.8 (103.6) | 42.2 (108.0) | 39.7 (103.5) | 33.2 (91.8) | 29.6 (85.3) | 15.6 (60.1) | 4.5 (40.1) | 42.2 (108.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −15.7 (3.7) | −9.7 (14.5) | 1.0 (33.8) | 12.0 (53.6) | 20.2 (68.4) | 25.5 (77.9) | 27.7 (81.9) | 26.0 (78.8) | 19.7 (67.5) | 9.7 (49.5) | −3.4 (25.9) | −13.2 (8.2) | 8.3 (47.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −21.0 (−5.8) | −16.0 (3.2) | −5.9 (21.4) | 4.6 (40.3) | 12.6 (54.7) | 18.7 (65.7) | 21.3 (70.3) | 19.3 (66.7) | 12.5 (54.5) | 2.7 (36.9) | −9.4 (15.1) | −18.3 (−0.9) | 1.8 (35.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −25.5 (−13.9) | −21.7 (−7.1) | −12.1 (10.2) | −2.4 (27.7) | 5.4 (41.7) | 12.4 (54.3) | 15.6 (60.1) | 13.1 (55.6) | 5.9 (42.6) | −3.3 (26.1) | −14.6 (5.7) | −22.7 (−8.9) | −4.2 (24.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −39.7 (−39.5) | −38.0 (−36.4) | −31.1 (−24.0) | −18.9 (−2.0) | −10.3 (13.5) | 0.0 (32.0) | 4.0 (39.2) | 0.0 (32.0) | −7.2 (19.0) | −23.0 (−9.4) | −31.3 (−24.3) | −36.4 (−33.5) | −39.7 (−39.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1 (0.0) | 2 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 4 (0.2) | 16 (0.6) | 39 (1.5) | 52 (2.0) | 42 (1.7) | 16 (0.6) | 3 (0.1) | 3 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 182 (7.1) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 40.6 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 78.9 | 74.5 | 59.1 | 42.6 | 42.4 | 52.1 | 60.1 | 58.9 | 54.1 | 55.0 | 67.3 | 77.9 | 60.2 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 203.3 | 216.4 | 263.5 | 274.6 | 304.5 | 303.0 | 298.9 | 290.4 | 280.0 | 245.2 | 208.2 | 183.2 | 3,071.2 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 6.6 | 7.7 | 8.5 | 9.2 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 9.3 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 8.4 |
| Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net ||||||||||||||
| Source 2: NOAA (sun, 1961-1990), Deutscher Wetterdienst (daily sun 1961-1990) ||||||||||||||