Climate averages 1991–2020
Mazār-e Sharīf weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Mazār-e Sharīf: daytime highs average 11.1°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 42 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Balkh (20 km away). In December its highs average 10.5°C, 0.6°C cooler than Mazār-e Sharīf, with 25 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Mazār-e Sharīf ranks 6th of 14 for the warmest December highs and joint 7th of 14 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 14 cities is 10.5°C; Mazār-e Sharīf is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 9.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 34 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Balkh in DecemberAfghanistan · 20 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 0.8°C · 25 mm rain
- Tirmiz in DecemberUzbekistan · 59 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 1.8°C · 20 mm rain
- Kunduz in DecemberAfghanistan · 156 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low -0.6°C · 37 mm rain
- Baghlān in DecemberAfghanistan · 157 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low -1.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Khanabad in DecemberAfghanistan · 179 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low -0.2°C · 35 mm rain
- Denov in DecemberUzbekistan · 187 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low -1.4°C · 51 mm rain
- Bokhtar in DecemberTajikistan · 194 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Maymana in DecemberAfghanistan · 226 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low -1.4°C · 36 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.