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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Khash, Iran
Khash climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Mar · Oct–Nov
Annual mean20°day and night
Seasonal swing21°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation135 mm16 wet days a year
28.22° N, 61.22° EElevation 1,413 mUTC+3:30 · Iran Standard Time
When to goKhash · weather score
Best timeMar · Oct–Nov
October: high / low27° / 13°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Khash has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 37° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 2°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 21°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 135 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (32 mm, 3 wet days) and September the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in September to 21% in March.
Compared with Tehran, the capital, Khash is 2° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 37° · July
- Coldest nights
- 2° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- September
- Clearest skies
- September · 2% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 55 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 22 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 | 14° | 17° | 21° | 28° | 33° | 37° | 37° | 36° | 33° | 27° | 21° | 16° |
| Average low | 2° | 4° | 8° | 14° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 20° | 17° | 13° | 8° | 4° |
| Precipitation | 32 mm | 30 mm | 31 mm | 6 mm | 3 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 2 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 3 mm | 22 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.2 | 1.7 | 2 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.2 |
| Cloud cover | 18% | 17% | 21% | 16% | 9% | 5% | 8% | 7% | 2% | 3% | 10% | 16% |
| Daylight | 10h 32 | 11h 12 | 11h 58 | 12h 50 | 13h 32 | 13h 55 | 13h 46 | 13h 10 | 12h 21 | 11h 31 | 10h 46 | 10h 22 |
| Month score | 71 | 89 | 95 | 82 | 64 | 56 | 53 | 57 | 68 | 90 | 98 | 88 |
ivMonth by month
Khash in every month
January71
14° / 2°
32 mm · 3.2 wet days
February89
17° / 4°
30 mm · 1.7 wet days
March95
21° / 8°
31 mm · 2 wet days
April82
28° / 14°
6 mm · 2.8 wet days
May64
33° / 19°
3 mm · 0.7 wet day
June56
37° / 21°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
July53
37° / 22°
3 mm · 2.3 wet days
August57
36° / 20°
2 mm · 0.3 wet days
September68
33° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days
October90
27° / 13°
2 mm · 0.2 wet days
November98
21° / 8°
3 mm · 0.8 wet day
December88
16° / 4°
22 mm · 1.2 wet day