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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Multan
Multan climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean26°day and night
Seasonal swing22°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation230 mm40 wet days a year
30.20° N, 71.48° EElevation 126 mUTC+5 · Pakistan Standard Time
When to goMultan · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 20°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Multan has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is June, when afternoons average 41° and nights 29°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 20° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 22°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 230 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (45 mm, 7 wet days) and November the driest (2 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 3% in October to 21% in March.
Compared with Islamabad, the capital, Multan is 5.2° warmer on a June afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 41° · June
- Coldest nights
- 7° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- November
- Clearest skies
- October · 3% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 05 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 13 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 | 20° | 23° | 28° | 35° | 40° | 41° | 39° | 37° | 37° | 33° | 28° | 22° |
| Average low | 7° | 10° | 15° | 20° | 25° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 26° | 20° | 14° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 9 mm | 16 mm | 19 mm | 15 mm | 13 mm | 16 mm | 57 mm | 45 mm | 25 mm | 6 mm | 2 mm | 7 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.6 | 3 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 5 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 4.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.1 |
| Cloud cover | 17% | 18% | 21% | 17% | 11% | 8% | 19% | 18% | 6% | 3% | 8% | 14% |
| Daylight | 10h 24 | 11h 07 | 11h 57 | 12h 53 | 13h 40 | 14h 05 | 13h 55 | 13h 16 | 12h 22 | 11h 28 | 10h 39 | 10h 13 |
| Month score | 96 | 93 | 77 | 50 | 52 | 46 | 42 | 42 | 48 | 63 | 88 | 97 |
ivMonth by month
Multan in every month
January96
20° / 7°
9 mm · 1.6 wet days
February93
23° / 10°
16 mm · 3 wet days
March77
28° / 15°
19 mm · 3.9 wet days
April50
35° / 20°
15 mm · 3.5 wet days
May52
40° / 25°
13 mm · 2.5 wet days
June46
41° / 29°
16 mm · 5 wet days
July42
39° / 30°
57 mm · 6.7 wet days
August42
37° / 29°
45 mm · 6.8 wet days
September48
37° / 26°
25 mm · 4.4 wet days
October63
33° / 20°
6 mm · 1.1 wet day
November88
28° / 14°
2 mm · 0.7 wet day
December97
22° / 9°
7 mm · 1.1 wet day