Climate averages 1991–2020
Mashhad weather
in March.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a cool month in Mashhad: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran (52 km away). In March its highs average 11.9°C, 2.5°C cooler than Mashhad, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Mashhad ranks joint 67th of 128 for the warmest March highs and 83rd of 128 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 128 cities is 15.7°C; Mashhad is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.0°C to 20.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 54 mm.
The annual picture
March 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 | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in MarchIran · 52 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 0.7°C · 70 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in MarchIran · 73 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 2.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh in MarchIran · 119 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 3.1°C · 43 mm rain
- Qūchān in MarchIran · 133 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low -0.6°C · 70 mm rain
- Kāshmar in MarchIran · 156 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 5.0°C · 38 mm rain
- Sabzevar in MarchIran · 173 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 4.3°C · 43 mm rain
- Shīrvān in MarchIran · 193 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 0.9°C · 49 mm rain
- Ashgabat in MarchTurkmenistan · 213 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 5.0°C · 61 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.