Climate averages 1991–2020
Qūchān weather
in December.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Qūchān: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about -3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 40 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (61 km away). In December its highs average 6.7°C, 0.8°C warmer than Qūchān, with 18 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Qūchān ranks joint 109th of 128 for the warmest December highs and joint 23rd of 128 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 128 cities is 10.9°C; Qūchān is 5.0°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 2.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 22 mm to 31 mm.
The annual picture
December 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 | 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, selected | 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
December in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in DecemberIran · 61 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -2.2°C · 18 mm rain
- Ashgabat in DecemberTurkmenistan · 95 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 0.5°C · 21 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in DecemberIran · 102 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low -1.2°C · 23 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in DecemberIran · 112 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -2.3°C · 27 mm rain
- Sabzevar in DecemberIran · 124 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 0.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Mashhad in DecemberIran · 133 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low -1.5°C · 20 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in DecemberIran · 174 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low -2.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Kāshmar in DecemberIran · 208 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 0.9°C · 15 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.