page_title: Balkhash (city)
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Balkhash (city) / Climate
caption_attribution_description: Балхаш зимой. Центральная улица.
context_page_description: Balkhash is a city in Kazakhstan, located on the northern shore of the Lake Balkhash, on the Bay Bertys, and in south of Kazakh Uplands. Population of the city: 68,833; 65,431.
  Balkhash was founded in 1937 as an industrial city centred on the mining and smelting of copper, and presently copper is still exploited there. The city lies approximately 500 km west of the Chinese border on the north side of the lake at an altitude of 440 m.
  The history of the city is closely connected with mining of deposits of copper and development of a smelting plant.
context_section_description: Balkhash has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk) with warm summers and very cold winters. Precipitation is low throughout the year. Snow is common, though light, in winter. The lowest temperature on record is −41.2 °C (−42.2 °F), recorded in December 1938, and the highest temperature is 40.9 °C (105.6 °F), recorded in July 2005.
caption: Winter in Balkhash. One of the central streets.
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