Climate averages 1991–2020
Balkh weather
in November.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a mild month in Balkh: daytime highs average 15.7°C and nights cool to about 5.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes November a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 15 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mazār-e Sharīf (20 km away). In November its highs average 15.9°C, about as warm as Balkh, with 23 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Balkh ranks 9th of 14 for the warmest November highs and joint 8th of 14 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 14 cities is 15.8°C; Balkh is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 10.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 23 mm to 25 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Mazār-e Sharīf in NovemberAfghanistan · 20 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 5.8°C · 23 mm rain
- Tirmiz in NovemberUzbekistan · 62 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 6.4°C · 19 mm rain
- Kunduz in NovemberAfghanistan · 175 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 4.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Baghlān in NovemberAfghanistan · 176 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 4.0°C · 46 mm rain
- Denov in NovemberUzbekistan · 190 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 3.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Khanabad in NovemberAfghanistan · 198 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.7°C · 36 mm rain
- Bokhtar in NovemberTajikistan · 205 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 6.3°C · 30 mm rain
- Maymana in NovemberAfghanistan · 211 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 3.3°C · 30 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.