Climate averages 1991–2020
Mazār-e Sharīf weather
in September.
A hot, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Mazār-e Sharīf: daytime highs average 30.6°C and nights cool to about 17.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical September (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 27 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Balkh (20 km away). In September its highs average 30.6°C, about as warm as Mazār-e Sharīf, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Mazār-e Sharīf ranks joint 6th of 14 for the warmest September highs and joint 3rd of 14 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 14 cities is 29.4°C; Mazār-e Sharīf is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 7.1°C to 23.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from under 1 mm to 4.3 mm.
The annual picture
September 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Balkh in SeptemberAfghanistan · 20 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 16.4°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Tirmiz in SeptemberUzbekistan · 59 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 18.8°C · 0.8 mm rain
- Kunduz in SeptemberAfghanistan · 156 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 16.6°C · 2.6 mm rain
- Baghlān in SeptemberAfghanistan · 157 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 15.2°C · 2.1 mm rain
- Khanabad in SeptemberAfghanistan · 179 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 16.4°C · 1.9 mm rain
- Denov in SeptemberUzbekistan · 187 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 2.4 mm rain
- Bokhtar in SeptemberTajikistan · 194 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 18.6°C · 1.4 mm rain
- Maymana in SeptemberAfghanistan · 226 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 13.2°C · 0.8 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.