Climate averages 1991–2020
Mazār-e Sharīf weather
in April.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Mazār-e Sharīf: daytime highs average 23.8°C and nights cool to about 11.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 06 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Balkh (20 km away). In April its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Mazār-e Sharīf, with 34 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Mazār-e Sharīf ranks joint 3rd of 14 for the warmest April highs and joint 2nd of 14 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 14 cities is 22.0°C; Mazār-e Sharīf is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.5°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 34 mm to 13 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
Mazār-e Sharīf climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.6°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 34 | 7.4 | 10.010 h |
| February | 11.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 40 | 8.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.3°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 47 | 8.8 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 23.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 34 | 5.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 30.3°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 13 | 2.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 35.9°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 0.8 | 0.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 37.6°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 35.6°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.6°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 4.3 | 1.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 23 | 5.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°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
April in nearby cities
- Balkh in AprilAfghanistan · 20 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 11.4°C · 34 mm rain
- Tirmiz in AprilUzbekistan · 59 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Kunduz in AprilAfghanistan · 156 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 10.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Baghlān in AprilAfghanistan · 157 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 9.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Khanabad in AprilAfghanistan · 179 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 10.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Denov in AprilUzbekistan · 187 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Bokhtar in AprilTajikistan · 194 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 11.8°C · 51 mm rain
- Maymana in AprilAfghanistan · 226 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 8.3°C · 65 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 Mazār-e Sharīf) is explained once on the Mazār-e Sharīf year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Balkh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.