Climate guideThirty-year normals for Dir
Dir climate by month
Hot-summer humid continental · DfaBest May · Sep–Oct
Annual mean11°day and night
Seasonal swing24°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,108 mm88 wet days a year
35.21° N, 71.88° EElevation 1,407 mUTC+5 · Pakistan Standard Time
When to goDir · weather score
Best timeMay · Sep–Oct
October: high / low21° / 7°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Dir has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is June, when afternoons average 28° and nights 13°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 3° and lows of -6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 24°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 1,108 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. April is the wettest month (135 mm, 11 wet days) and December the driest (62 mm, 4 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in September to 35% in February.
Compared with Islamabad, the capital, Dir is 8.6° cooler on a June afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · June
- Coldest nights
- -6° · January
- Wettest month
- April
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- September · 11% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 31 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 48 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 | 3° | 4° | 10° | 17° | 24° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 21° | 15° | 7° |
| Average low | -6° | -4° | 1° | 5° | 9° | 13° | 17° | 17° | 13° | 7° | 0° | -4° |
| Precipitation | 90 mm | 140 mm | 197 mm | 135 mm | 77 mm | 44 mm | 108 mm | 99 mm | 53 mm | 57 mm | 46 mm | 62 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.2 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 10.6 | 7.4 | 7 | 9.8 | 9.3 | 6.2 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
| Cloud cover | 32% | 35% | 35% | 31% | 23% | 13% | 24% | 27% | 11% | 13% | 19% | 28% |
| Daylight | 10h 02 | 10h 55 | 11h 55 | 13h 03 | 14h 00 | 14h 31 | 14h 19 | 13h 31 | 12h 26 | 11h 21 | 10h 20 | 9h 48 |
| Month score | 43 | 34 | 33 | 68 | 83 | 73 | 67 | 73 | 85 | 89 | 72 | 49 |
ivMonth by month
Dir in every month
January43
3° / -6°
90 mm · 6.2 wet days
February34
4° / -4°
140 mm · 9.4 wet days
March33
10° / 1°
197 mm · 9.7 wet days
April68
17° / 5°
135 mm · 10.6 wet days
May83
24° / 9°
77 mm · 7.4 wet days
June73
28° / 13°
44 mm · 7 wet days
July67
27° / 17°
108 mm · 9.8 wet days
August73
26° / 17°
99 mm · 9.3 wet days
September85
25° / 13°
53 mm · 6.2 wet days
October89
21° / 7°
57 mm · 4.5 wet days
November72
15° / 0°
46 mm · 4.3 wet days
December49
7° / -4°
62 mm · 3.9 wet days