The Pallas's cat's fur is light grey with pale yellowish-ochre or pale yellowish-reddish hues. Some hair tips are white and some blackish. Its fur is greyer and denser with less markings visible in winter than in the summer. The forehead and top of the head is light grey with small black spots. It has two black zigzag lines on the cheeks running from the corner of the eyes to the jaw joints. Its chin, whiskers, lower and upper lips are white. It has narrow black stripes on the back, consisting of five to seven dark lines across the lower back. Its grey tail has seven narrow black rings and a black tip. The underfur is long and thick, and the guard hairs up to long and thick on the back. Its fur is soft and dense with up to 9,000 hairs per cm2 ().