Climate averages 1991–2020
Shūsh weather
in January.
A mild, wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Shūsh: daytime highs average 16.8°C and nights cool to about 6.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 18 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dezful (26 km away). In January its highs average 16.2°C, 0.7°C cooler than Shūsh, with 133 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Shūsh ranks 11th of 128 for the warmest January highs and 107th of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Shūsh is 8.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 mm to 64 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
Shūsh climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.8°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 93 | 8.4 | 10.310 h |
| February | 19.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 64 | 6.9 | 11.011 h |
| March | 24.2°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 78 | 6.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.8°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 52 | 4.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 38.7°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 9.4 | 1.3 | 13.814 h |
| June | 44.7°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 14.214 h |
| July | 46.9°C30.4°C | 30.4°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 46.8°C30.1°C | 30.1°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 42.5°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 35.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 17 | 1.8 | 11.411 h |
| November | 24.8°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 74 | 5.4 | 10.511 h |
| December | 18.7°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 100 | 7.5 | 10.110 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
- Dezful in JanuaryIran · 26 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 5.9°C · 133 mm rain
- Andīmeshk in JanuaryIran · 31 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 6.0°C · 116 mm rain
- Shūshtar in JanuaryIran · 59 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 94 mm rain
- Masjed Soleymān in JanuaryIran · 104 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 6.5°C · 120 mm rain
- Ahvaz in JanuaryIran · 106 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 7.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Al ‘Amārah in JanuaryIraq · 111 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 7.3°C · 39 mm rain
- Khorramabad in JanuaryIran · 144 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low -2.6°C · 96 mm rain
- Al Qurnah in JanuaryIraq · 152 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 7.7°C · 34 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 Shūsh) is explained once on the Shūsh year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.