Climate averages 1991–2020
Tākestān weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Tākestān: daytime highs average 33.4°C and nights cool to about 17.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 1.9 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes August a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 32 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Qazvin (35 km away). In August its highs average 32.4°C, 1.0°C cooler than Tākestān, with 3.0 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Tākestān ranks joint 83rd of 128 for the warmest August highs and joint 83rd of 128 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 128 cities is 35.2°C; Tākestān is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.2°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 1.9 mm to 2.0 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Tākestān climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.6°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 33 | 7.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.9°C-3.3°C | -3.3°C | 38 | 7.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 48 | 8.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.9°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 47 | 9.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 25.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 22 | 5.8 | 14.114 h |
| June | 31.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 4.5 | 1.3 | 14.615 h |
| July | 33.3°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 2.3 | 0.7 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 33.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 1.9 | 0.3 | 13.514 h |
| September | 29.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 2.0 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.3°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 20 | 3.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.3°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 37 | 7.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 7.8°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 34 | 6.8 | 9.810 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
August in nearby cities
- Qazvin in AugustIran · 35 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 18.3°C · 3.0 mm rain
- Alvand in AugustIran · 36 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 18.2°C · 3.0 mm rain
- Moḩammadīyeh in AugustIran · 47 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 18.4°C · 2.1 mm rain
- Naz̧arābād in AugustIran · 83 kmHigh 34.1°C · Low 20.9°C · 2.8 mm rain
- Mehestan in AugustIran · 95 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 20.1°C · 2.5 mm rain
- Kamālshahr in AugustIran · 109 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 21.6°C · 2.0 mm rain
- Moḩammad Shahr in AugustIran · 115 kmHigh 34.4°C · Low 19.8°C · 1.7 mm rain
- Karaj in AugustIran · 120 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 20.2°C · 1.7 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 Tākestān) is explained once on the Tākestān year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.