Climate averages 1991–2020
Peshawar weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Peshawar: daytime highs average 16.5°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 10 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Charsadda (22 km away). In January its highs average 16.9°C, about as warm as Peshawar, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 166 cities listed in Pakistan, Peshawar ranks joint 145th of 166 for the warmest January highs and joint 126th of 166 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 166 cities is 19.5°C; Peshawar is 3.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 67 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
Peshawar climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.5°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 35 | 4.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 18.4°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 67 | 7.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 23.0°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 85 | 9.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.1°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 74 | 7.7 | 13.013 h |
| May | 35.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 32 | 5.6 | 13.914 h |
| June | 39.2°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 40 | 6.5 | 14.414 h |
| July | 36.0°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 153 | 16.5 | 14.214 h |
| August | 33.7°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 152 | 18.4 | 13.413 h |
| September | 33.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 74 | 10.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 29.7°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 35 | 4.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.6°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 23 | 3.1 | 10.410 h |
| December | 19.1°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 18 | 2.2 | 9.910 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
- Charsadda in JanuaryPakistan · 22 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 37 mm rain
- Shabqadar in JanuaryPakistan · 23 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 3.1°C · 39 mm rain
- Nowshera Kalan in JanuaryPakistan · 37 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 4.4°C · 51 mm rain
- Mardan in JanuaryPakistan · 48 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 3.8°C · 46 mm rain
- Kohat in JanuaryPakistan · 49 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 3.2°C · 29 mm rain
- Tordher in JanuaryPakistan · 65 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 4.4°C · 54 mm rain
- Bat Khela in JanuaryPakistan · 77 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 0.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Attock City in JanuaryPakistan · 77 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 4.3°C · 51 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 Peshawar) is explained once on the Peshawar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.