Climate averages 1991–2020

Yazd weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 12.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 0.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 20 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Yazd: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 20 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 19 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Rafsanjān (227 km away). In January its highs average 12.7°C, about as warm as Yazd, with 14 mm of rain.

Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Yazd ranks 30th of 128 for the warmest January highs and 9th of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Yazd is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 15.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 20 mm to 13 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Yazd climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yazd, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	12.6°C0.6°C	0.6°C	20	4.6	10.310 h
February	15.7°C3.0°C	3.0°C	13	2.9	11.011 h
March	20.3°C7.4°C	7.4°C	20	4.0	12.012 h
April	25.9°C13.2°C	13.2°C	14	3.2	12.913 h
May	31.0°C18.4°C	18.4°C	5.3	1.5	13.814 h
June	36.1°C22.7°C	22.7°C	0.3	0.1	14.214 h
July	37.9°C24.6°C	24.6°C	0.1	0.0	14.014 h
August	36.3°C23.6°C	23.6°C	0.1	0.0	13.313 h
September	32.6°C19.4°C	19.4°C	0	0.0	12.412 h
October	26.3°C13.7°C	13.7°C	2.6	0.8	11.411 h
November	18.7°C6.6°C	6.6°C	11	2.8	10.611 h
December	14.4°C2.2°C	2.2°C	16	3.3	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

Distance from Yazd

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 Yazd) is explained once on the Yazd year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.