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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Paghman
Paghman climate by month
Warm, dry-summer continental · DsbBest May–Jun · Sep
Annual mean7°day and night
Seasonal swing28°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation698 mm70 wet days a year
34.59° N, 68.95° EElevation 2,328 mUTC+4:30 · Afghanistan Time
When to goPaghman · weather score
Best timeMay–Jun · Sep
October: high / low16° / 3°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Paghman has a warm, dry-summer continental climate (Köppen Dsb): dry summers and cold winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 27° and nights 12°. January is the coolest month, with highs of -2° and lows of -14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 28°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 698 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (141 mm, 10 wet days) and December the driest (53 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in September to 30% in March.
Compared with Kabul, the capital, Paghman is 2.8° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 27° · July
- Coldest nights
- -14° · January
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- September · 4% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 27 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 51 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | -2° | -1° | 5° | 13° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 27° | 23° | 16° | 10° | 2° |
| Average low | -14° | -13° | -7° | 0° | 6° | 9° | 12° | 12° | 8° | 3° | -3° | -11° |
| Precipitation | 80 mm | 106 mm | 141 mm | 100 mm | 80 mm | 30 mm | 18 mm | 16 mm | 17 mm | 25 mm | 32 mm | 53 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.5 | 8.3 | 10 | 9.2 | 6 | 4 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 3.4 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 28% | 30% | 26% | 18% | 7% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 8% | 16% | 25% |
| Daylight | 10h 05 | 10h 56 | 11h 56 | 13h 02 | 13h 57 | 14h 27 | 14h 16 | 13h 29 | 12h 26 | 11h 22 | 10h 23 | 9h 51 |
| Month score | 45 | 38 | 34 | 53 | 86 | 91 | 79 | 77 | 89 | 82 | 47 | 50 |
ivMonth by month
Paghman in every month
January45
-2° / -14°
80 mm · 5.5 wet days
February38
-1° / -13°
106 mm · 8.3 wet days
March34
5° / -7°
141 mm · 10 wet days
April53
13° / 0°
100 mm · 9.2 wet days
May86
20° / 6°
80 mm · 6 wet days
June91
24° / 9°
30 mm · 4 wet days
July79
27° / 12°
18 mm · 4.8 wet days
August77
27° / 12°
16 mm · 6.2 wet days
September89
23° / 8°
17 mm · 4.7 wet days
October82
16° / 3°
25 mm · 3.6 wet days
November47
10° / -3°
32 mm · 4.5 wet days
December50
2° / -11°
53 mm · 3.4 wet days