Climate averages 1991–2020

Gardez weather
in July.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.7°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 16.9°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 54 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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July is a hot month in Gardez: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 09 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Khōst (71 km away). In July its highs average 29.1°C, about as warm as Gardez, with 152 mm of rain.

Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Gardez ranks 14th of 14 for the warmest July highs and 13th of 14 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 14 cities is 34.8°C; Gardez is 6.1°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 54 mm to 47 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Gardez, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 0.2°C-7.7°C-7.7°C426.410.210 h
February 0.8°C-6.5°C-6.5°C638.811.011 h
March 7.3°C-0.9°C-0.9°C729.512.012 h
April 16.3°C5.9°C5.9°C6910.713.013 h
May 22.4°C11.1°C11.1°C458.913.914 h
June 26.8°C15.0°C15.0°C417.714.314 h
July, selected 28.7°C16.9°C16.9°C5411.514.114 h
August 27.8°C16.2°C16.2°C4711.813.413 h
September 24.5°C13.1°C13.1°C185.212.412 h
October 18.5°C8.1°C8.1°C102.311.411 h
November 11.4°C2.5°C2.5°C203.510.510 h
December 5.3°C-3.0°C-3.0°C234.110.010 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.

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July in nearby cities

Distance from Gardez

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 limits

How 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.