Climate averages 1991–2020

Sahand weather
in April.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 15.3°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 2.6°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 41 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sahand · average highYear overview

April is a mild month in Sahand: daytime highs average 15.3°C and nights cool to about 2.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tabriz (21 km away). In April its highs average 16.3°C, 1.0°C warmer than Sahand, with 67 mm of rain.

Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Sahand ranks joint 122nd of 128 for the warmest April highs and 54th of 128 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 128 cities is 21.8°C; Sahand is 6.5°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 21.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 41 mm to 28 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sahand climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sahand, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 2.1°C-7.0°C-7.0°C225.79.910 h
February 4.2°C-5.8°C-5.8°C316.910.811 h
March 9.3°C-2.3°C-2.3°C439.011.912 h
April, selected 15.3°C2.6°C2.6°C418.013.213 h
May 21.1°C7.4°C7.4°C286.714.214 h
June 27.4°C12.3°C12.3°C9.02.514.715 h
July 31.0°C15.9°C15.9°C5.51.714.515 h
August 31.0°C15.9°C15.9°C2.80.713.614 h
September 25.9°C11.4°C11.4°C2.80.612.512 h
October 18.6°C5.8°C5.8°C132.711.211 h
November 9.7°C-1.1°C-1.1°C285.110.210 h
December 4.1°C-5.4°C-5.4°C256.09.610 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Sahand

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sahand) is explained once on the Sahand year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.