Climate averages 1991–2020
Balkh weather
in February.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Balkh: daytime highs average 11.2°C and nights cool to about 0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 49 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mazār-e Sharīf (20 km away). In February its highs average 11.5°C, about as warm as Balkh, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Balkh ranks 7th of 14 for the warmest February highs and joint 1st of 14 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 14 cities is 9.3°C; Balkh is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 5.9°C to 17.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 47 mm.
The annual picture
February in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Balkh climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 34 | 7.4 | 10.010 h |
| February, selected | 11.2°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 40 | 8.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 47 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 34 | 5.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 30.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 13 | 2.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 36.0°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 0.8 | 0.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 37.7°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 35.7°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.6°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.4°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 4.3 | 1.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 23 | 5.2 | 10.210 h |
| December | 10.5°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 25 | 5.6 | 9.710 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
February in nearby cities
- Mazār-e Sharīf in FebruaryAfghanistan · 20 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 1.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Tirmiz in FebruaryUzbekistan · 62 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 2.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Kunduz in FebruaryAfghanistan · 175 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low -0.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Baghlān in FebruaryAfghanistan · 176 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low -1.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Denov in FebruaryUzbekistan · 190 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low -1.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Khanabad in FebruaryAfghanistan · 198 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low -0.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Bokhtar in FebruaryTajikistan · 205 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 1.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Maymana in FebruaryAfghanistan · 211 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low -2.3°C · 60 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Balkh) is explained once on the Balkh year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mazār-e Sharīf lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.