Climate averages 1991–2020
Qūchān weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Qūchān: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 2.0 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes August a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 35 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (61 km away). In August its highs average 29.9°C, 1.4°C warmer than Qūchān, with 2.6 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Qūchān ranks 121st of 128 for the warmest August highs and joint 86th of 128 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 128 cities is 35.2°C; Qūchān is 6.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 25.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 2.0 mm to 4.8 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Qūchān climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.6°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 31 | 5.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.0°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 44 | 7.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 10.5°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 70 | 10.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.7°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 65 | 10.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.4°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 52 | 10.1 | 14.114 h |
| June | 27.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 15 | 3.9 | 14.715 h |
| July | 29.2°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 4.7 | 1.1 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 28.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 2.0 | 0.5 | 13.614 h |
| September | 25.1°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 4.8 | 1.1 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.4°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 13 | 3.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 11.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 26 | 4.8 | 10.210 h |
| December | 5.9°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 22 | 4.7 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in AugustIran · 61 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 17.6°C · 2.6 mm rain
- Ashgabat in AugustTurkmenistan · 95 kmHigh 35.0°C · Low 23.0°C · 1.6 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in AugustIran · 102 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 16.5°C · 1.9 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in AugustIran · 112 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 4.1 mm rain
- Sabzevar in AugustIran · 124 kmHigh 35.1°C · Low 20.7°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Mashhad in AugustIran · 133 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 17.8°C · 2.1 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in AugustIran · 174 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 17.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Kāshmar in AugustIran · 208 kmHigh 35.0°C · Low 19.5°C · 0.3 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 Qūchān) is explained once on the Qūchān year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.