Climate averages 1991–2020
Mashhad weather
in January.
A cold, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Mashhad: daytime highs average 7.7°C and nights cool to about -3.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 59 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran (52 km away). In January its highs average 4.8°C, 2.9°C cooler than Mashhad, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Mashhad ranks joint 65th of 128 for the warmest January highs and joint 26th of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Mashhad is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 9.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 44 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
Mashhad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.7°C-3.7°C | -3.7°C | 28 | 5.6 | 10.010 h |
| February | 9.4°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 44 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 14.4°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 64 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.4°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 54 | 10.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 25.9°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 34 | 7.3 | 14.114 h |
| June | 31.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 6.9 | 2.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 33.4°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 2.0 | 0.6 | 14.414 h |
| August | 32.2°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 2.1 | 0.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 27.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 2.1 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.6°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 9.0 | 2.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.4°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 20 | 4.4 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.8°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 20 | 4.3 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in JanuaryIran · 52 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -5.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in JanuaryIran · 73 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -3.3°C · 32 mm rain
- Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh in JanuaryIran · 119 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low -3.0°C · 29 mm rain
- Qūchān in JanuaryIran · 133 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -7.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Kāshmar in JanuaryIran · 156 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low -1.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Sabzevar in JanuaryIran · 173 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -1.3°C · 21 mm rain
- Shīrvān in JanuaryIran · 193 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -5.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Ashgabat in JanuaryTurkmenistan · 213 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -0.9°C · 30 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 Mashhad) is explained once on the Mashhad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.