Climate averages 1991–2020
Rasht weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Rasht: daytime highs average 10.6°C and nights cool to about 2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 125 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 55 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bandar-e Anzalī (25 km away). In January its highs average 10.4°C, about as warm as Rasht, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Rasht ranks joint 39th of 128 for the warmest January highs and 123rd of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Rasht is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 10.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 125 mm to 123 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
Rasht climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.6°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 125 | 12.7 | 9.910 h |
| February | 10.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 123 | 12.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 118 | 14.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 88 | 12.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 55 | 9.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 26.0°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 72 | 8.1 | 14.715 h |
| July | 27.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 82 | 8.4 | 14.514 h |
| August | 28.1°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 109 | 10.6 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.6°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 189 | 14.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 222 | 15.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.8°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 201 | 14.1 | 10.210 h |
| December | 12.5°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 136 | 12.3 | 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
- Bandar-e Anzalī in JanuaryIran · 25 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 7.3°C · 115 mm rain
- Lāhījān in JanuaryIran · 38 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 2.3°C · 116 mm rain
- Zanjan in JanuaryIran · 118 kmHigh 2.2°C · Low -7.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Qazvin in JanuaryIran · 118 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -3.7°C · 47 mm rain
- Alvand in JanuaryIran · 128 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low -4.5°C · 47 mm rain
- Moḩammadīyeh in JanuaryIran · 128 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -4.4°C · 44 mm rain
- Tākestān in JanuaryIran · 134 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -4.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Ardabīl in JanuaryIran · 157 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -6.7°C · 36 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 Rasht) is explained once on the Rasht year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.