Climate averages 1991–2020
Zahedan weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Zahedan: daytime highs average 13.5°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 29 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zābol (181 km away). In January its highs average 14.6°C, 1.1°C warmer than Zahedan, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Zahedan ranks 25th of 128 for the warmest January highs and 19th of 128 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 128 cities is 8.6°C; Zahedan is 4.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 24 mm to 21 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
Zahedan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 13.5°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 24 | 4.0 | 10.510 h |
| February | 16.5°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 21 | 3.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 21.3°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 19 | 4.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.7°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 8.3 | 2.3 | 12.913 h |
| May | 32.5°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 2.6 | 0.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 35.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 14.014 h |
| July | 36.7°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 13.814 h |
| August | 35.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 31.5°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.2°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 2.2 | 0.7 | 11.511 h |
| November | 19.8°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 4.8 | 1.2 | 10.711 h |
| December | 15.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 13 | 1.9 | 10.310 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
- Zābol in JanuaryIran · 181 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 2.6°C · 15 mm rain
- Bam in JanuaryIran · 247 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 28 mm rain
- Iranshahr in JanuaryIran · 256 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 7.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Jīroft in JanuaryIran · 317 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Kerman in JanuaryIran · 375 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 0.2°C · 21 mm rain
- Bīrjand in JanuaryIran · 406 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low -1.1°C · 37 mm rain
- Turbat in JanuaryPakistan · 444 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 11.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Mīnāb in JanuaryIran · 454 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.5°C · 60 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 Zahedan) is explained once on the Zahedan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.