Climate averages 1991–2020
Bandar-e Māhshahr weather
in January.
A mild, 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 mild month in Bandar-e Māhshahr: daytime highs average 17.6°C and nights cool to about 8.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 25 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni (16 km away). In January its highs average 16.7°C, 0.9°C cooler than Bandar-e Māhshahr, with 47 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Bandar-e Māhshahr ranks 8th of 128 for the warmest January highs and 84th of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Bandar-e Māhshahr is 9.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 20.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 57 mm to 30 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
Bandar-e Māhshahr climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 57 | 6.3 | 10.410 h |
| February | 20.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 30 | 4.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 25.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 32 | 4.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 32.7°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 9.9 | 1.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 40.1°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 4.0 | 0.5 | 13.714 h |
| June | 45.0°C28.9°C | 28.9°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| July | 46.3°C31.0°C | 31.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.914 h |
| August | 45.9°C30.5°C | 30.5°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 42.2°C26.7°C | 26.7°C | 0.6 | 0.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 35.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 6.0 | 0.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 25.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 72 | 4.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 19.4°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 68 | 6.0 | 10.210 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
- Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni in JanuaryIran · 16 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 10.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Abadan in JanuaryIran · 88 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Rāmhormoz in JanuaryIran · 90 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 6.6°C · 94 mm rain
- Al Fāw in JanuaryIraq · 94 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 10.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Khorramshahr in JanuaryIran · 97 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.2°C · 38 mm rain
- Ahvaz in JanuaryIran · 97 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 7.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Behbahān in JanuaryIran · 101 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 6.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Abū al-Kahṣīb in JanuaryIraq · 126 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 7.9°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 Bandar-e Māhshahr) is explained once on the Bandar-e Māhshahr year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.