Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in Afghanistan.

ClimaNote covers 14 cities in Afghanistan, starting with Kabul, Herāt and Mazār-e Sharīf. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 15.8°C in Gardez to 27.0°C in Kandahār, and yearly rainfall from 185 mm in Kandahār to 728 mm in Khōst. The hottest city-month is July in Kandahār, with an average high of 40.0°C, and the coolest is January in Ghazni, at -0.3°C. By single month, the most rain falls in July in Khōst, with 152 mm, and the least in July in Herāt, with under 1 mm (tied with August in Herāt and September in Kandahār).

July is the warmest month in 12 cities and June in 2; January is the coolest in every city. March is the wettest month in 7 cities, April in 3, February in 2 and July in 1 (in 1 other city two or more months tie); August is the driest in 6 cities, September in 2, June in 1, October in 1 and December in 1 (in 3 other cities two or more months tie). Of these cities, 2 have a month with an average high below 2.0°C and 8 have a month with under 1 mm of rain; none has a month with more than 300 mm of rain.