Climate guideThirty-year normals for Taft, Iran
Taft climate by month
Cold desert · BWkBest Apr · Oct–Nov
Annual mean17°day and night
Seasonal swing24°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation149 mm11 wet days a year
31.74° N, 54.20° EElevation 1,549 mUTC+3:30 · Iran Standard Time
When to goTaft · weather score
Best timeApr · Oct–Nov
October: high / low24° / 12°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Taft has a cold desert climate (Köppen BWk): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 35° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 10° and lows of -1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 24°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 149 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (32 mm, 2 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in September to 25% in April.
Compared with Tehran, the capital, Taft is 0.3° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · July
- Coldest nights
- -1° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- September · 2% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 12 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 06 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 | 10° | 13° | 17° | 23° | 29° | 33° | 35° | 34° | 30° | 24° | 18° | 12° |
| Average low | -1° | 1° | 5° | 11° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 21° | 17° | 12° | 6° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 32 mm | 20 mm | 34 mm | 15 mm | 5 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 4 mm | 9 mm | 28 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Cloud cover | 21% | 18% | 24% | 25% | 16% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 2% | 8% | 18% | 22% |
| Daylight | 10h 18 | 11h 04 | 11h 57 | 12h 56 | 13h 46 | 14h 12 | 14h 02 | 13h 20 | 12h 23 | 11h 26 | 10h 33 | 10h 06 |
| Month score | 53 | 69 | 92 | 95 | 83 | 64 | 58 | 64 | 78 | 99 | 94 | 66 |
ivMonth by month
Taft in every month
January53
10° / -1°
32 mm · 2 wet days
February69
13° / 1°
20 mm · 1.2 wet day
March92
17° / 5°
34 mm · 1.6 wet days
April95
23° / 11°
15 mm · 2 wet days
May83
29° / 16°
5 mm · 0.6 wet day
June64
33° / 20°
1 mm · 0.1 wet days
July58
35° / 23°
1 mm · 0 wet days
August64
34° / 21°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
September78
30° / 17°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
October99
24° / 12°
4 mm · 0.3 wet days
November94
18° / 6°
9 mm · 1.4 wet day
December66
12° / 2°
28 mm · 1.9 wet days