Climate averages 1991–2020
Qūchān weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Qūchān: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 10.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 08 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shīrvān (61 km away). In May its highs average 23.1°C, 0.7°C warmer than Qūchān, with 23 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Qūchān ranks joint 109th of 128 for the warmest May highs and 117th of 128 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 128 cities is 27.8°C; Qūchān is 5.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 mm to 15 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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 | 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
May in nearby cities
- Shīrvān in MayIran · 61 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 11.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Ashgabat in MayTurkmenistan · 95 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 23 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in MayIran · 102 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 12.2°C · 36 mm rain
- Bojnūrd in MayIran · 112 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 10.6°C · 40 mm rain
- Sabzevar in MayIran · 124 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 15.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Mashhad in MayIran · 133 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 12.6°C · 34 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in MayIran · 174 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 11.9°C · 34 mm rain
- Kāshmar in MayIran · 208 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 15.9°C · 6.5 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.