Climate averages 1991–2020
Gardez weather
in August.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Gardez: daytime highs average 27.8°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Khōst (71 km away). In August its highs average 27.5°C, about as warm as Gardez, with 147 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Gardez ranks 13th of 14 for the warmest August highs and 13th of 14 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 14 cities is 33.4°C; Gardez is 5.6°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 24.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 47 mm to 18 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Gardez climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.2°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 42 | 6.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 0.8°C-6.5°C | -6.5°C | 63 | 8.8 | 11.011 h |
| March | 7.3°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 72 | 9.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 16.3°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 69 | 10.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.4°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 45 | 8.9 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.8°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 41 | 7.7 | 14.314 h |
| July | 28.7°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 54 | 11.5 | 14.114 h |
| August, selected | 27.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 47 | 11.8 | 13.413 h |
| September | 24.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 18 | 5.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 18.5°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 10 | 2.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 11.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.510 h |
| December | 5.3°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 23 | 4.1 | 10.010 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
August in nearby cities
- Khōst in AugustAfghanistan · 71 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.8°C · 147 mm rain
- Ghazni in AugustAfghanistan · 75 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 14.0°C · 15 mm rain
- Kabul in AugustAfghanistan · 104 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 18.7°C · 4.0 mm rain
- Bannu in AugustPakistan · 145 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.2°C · 178 mm rain
- Jalālābād in AugustAfghanistan · 146 kmHigh 34.8°C · Low 25.2°C · 14 mm rain
- Bagrām in AugustAfghanistan · 152 kmHigh 32.9°C · Low 17.1°C · 1.2 mm rain
- Kohat in AugustPakistan · 206 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 24.5°C · 155 mm rain
- Peshawar in AugustPakistan · 222 kmHigh 33.7°C · Low 25.1°C · 152 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 Gardez) is explained once on the Gardez year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.