Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunduz weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Kunduz: daytime highs average 23.8°C and nights cool to about 10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 76 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 07 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Khanabad (23 km away). In April its highs average 23.1°C, 0.7°C cooler than Kunduz, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Kunduz ranks joint 3rd of 14 for the warmest April highs and 12th of 14 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 14 cities is 22.0°C; Kunduz is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 76 mm to 45 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Kunduz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 44 | 8.1 | 10.010 h |
| February | 11.0°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 59 | 9.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 76 | 10.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 23.8°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 76 | 10.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 30.1°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 45 | 6.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 36.9°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 4.4 | 1.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.6°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 1.0 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 38.0°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 32.8°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 2.6 | 0.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 12 | 2.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.1°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 42 | 6.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 10.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 37 | 6.6 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Khanabad in AprilAfghanistan · 23 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 10.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Baghlān in AprilAfghanistan · 68 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 9.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Bokhtar in AprilTajikistan · 123 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 11.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Tirmiz in AprilUzbekistan · 151 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Kŭlob in AprilTajikistan · 155 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 8.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Mazār-e Sharīf in AprilAfghanistan · 156 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 11.8°C · 34 mm rain
- Balkh in AprilAfghanistan · 175 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 11.4°C · 34 mm rain
- Denov in AprilUzbekistan · 191 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 64 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 Kunduz) is explained once on the Kunduz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.