Climate averages 1991–2020
Bāneh weather
in January.
A cold, 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 cold month in Bāneh: daytime highs average 2.9°C and nights cool to about -5.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 115 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 01 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Saqqez (45 km away). In January its highs average 3.1°C, about as warm as Bāneh, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Bāneh ranks joint 115th of 128 for the warmest January highs and joint 116th of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Bāneh is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 4.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 115 mm to 122 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
Bāneh climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 2.9°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 115 | 12.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 4.2°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 122 | 11.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 9.5°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 118 | 13.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.9°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 95 | 12.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.1°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 43 | 8.1 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.4°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 3.3 | 1.1 | 14.615 h |
| July | 34.1°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 34.0°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 0.7 | 0.3 | 13.514 h |
| September | 28.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 2.3 | 0.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 34 | 5.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.1°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 74 | 8.8 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.9°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 94 | 10.4 | 9.810 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
- Saqqez in JanuaryIran · 45 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -6.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Marīvān in JanuaryIran · 60 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -6.0°C · 112 mm rain
- Sulaymaniyah in JanuaryIraq · 63 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -0.8°C · 131 mm rain
- Būkān in JanuaryIran · 65 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -5.0°C · 40 mm rain
- Qeładizê in JanuaryIraq · 71 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -1.1°C · 155 mm rain
- Mahābād in JanuaryIran · 86 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -5.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Rānyah in JanuaryIraq · 95 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -0.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Hajiawa in JanuaryIraq · 101 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 158 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 Bāneh) is explained once on the Bāneh year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.