Climate averages 1991–2020
Herāt weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Herāt: daytime highs average 9.9°C and nights cool to about -1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 08 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran (286 km away). In January its highs average 4.8°C, 5.1°C cooler than Herāt, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Herāt ranks 4th of 14 for the warmest January highs and 13th of 14 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 14 cities is 7.6°C; Herāt is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 11.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 49 mm to 60 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Herāt climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.9°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 49 | 7.4 | 10.110 h |
| February | 11.9°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 60 | 8.1 | 10.911 h |
| March | 17.1°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 68 | 8.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.6°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 34 | 4.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 29.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 4.5 | 1.2 | 13.914 h |
| June | 33.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 14.414 h |
| July | 34.7°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.214 h |
| August | 33.4°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 30.0°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 0.4 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 2.5 | 0.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.2°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 17 | 3.2 | 10.410 h |
| December | 12.2°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 28 | 5.1 | 9.910 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
January in nearby cities
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in JanuaryIran · 286 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -5.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh in JanuaryIran · 291 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -3.0°C · 29 mm rain
- Maymana in JanuaryAfghanistan · 293 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -3.5°C · 47 mm rain
- Mashhad in JanuaryIran · 320 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -3.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Bīrjand in JanuaryIran · 321 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low -1.1°C · 37 mm rain
- Kāshmar in JanuaryIran · 355 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Mary in JanuaryTurkmenistan · 362 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 20 mm rain
- Bayramaly in JanuaryTurkmenistan · 364 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.2°C · 21 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 Herāt) is explained once on the Herāt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.