Climate averages 1991–2020
Bīrjand weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Bīrjand: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about -1.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 15 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh (268 km away). In January its highs average 6.2°C, 3.4°C cooler than Bīrjand, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Bīrjand ranks 44th of 128 for the warmest January highs and joint 53rd of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Bīrjand is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 37 mm to 45 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
Bīrjand climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.7°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 37 | 6.9 | 10.210 h |
| February | 12.0°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 45 | 7.8 | 11.011 h |
| March | 17.2°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 45 | 7.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 20 | 4.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 29.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 5.7 | 1.7 | 13.814 h |
| June | 33.7°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 14.314 h |
| July | 34.0°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August | 32.5°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| September | 29.9°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.7°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 3.0 | 0.7 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.3°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 10 | 2.8 | 10.511 h |
| December | 12.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 22 | 4.6 | 10.010 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
- Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh in JanuaryIran · 268 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -3.0°C · 29 mm rain
- Kāshmar in JanuaryIran · 273 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Zābol in JanuaryIran · 296 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 2.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Herāt in JanuaryAfghanistan · 321 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low -1.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in JanuaryIran · 332 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -5.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Kerman in JanuaryIran · 352 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 0.2°C · 21 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in JanuaryIran · 374 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -3.3°C · 32 mm rain
- Mashhad in JanuaryIran · 383 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -3.7°C · 28 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 Bīrjand) is explained once on the Bīrjand year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.