Kandahār weather in September

Name: Kandahār
Address: AF

In September, Kandahār has daytime highs averaging 34 °C, nights around 16 °C, with 0 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

33.9°C Average high
16.4°C Average low
0days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
12h Daylight

Daily temperatures through September

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 36.8 °C and lows bottom out at 13.5 °C.

How September develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 September	35.6 °C	18.4 °C
11–20 September	33.9 °C	16.4 °C
21–30 September	32.3 °C	14.5 °C

Average highs fall from 35.6 °C early in September to 32.3 °C by the end of it.

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in September. Wettest date over the 30 years: September 1, at 0 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical September	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	30 of 30	99 %
Days above 30 °C	27 of 30	91 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 30	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0 of 30	0 %

Conditions in September

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	26 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	41 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	7.6 °C
Relative humidity	15 %
Wind speed	15 km/h
Cloud cover	1 %

Where Kandahār ranks in September

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Asia in September	4thof 50	0.01 mm
The driest places in Africa in September	9thof 50	0.01 mm
The driest places in the world in September	12thof 50	0.01 mm
The warmest places in Africa in September	29thof 50	34 °C

September compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
July	40.1 °C	2 mm	5 %
August	38.4 °C	under 1 mm	6 %
September	33.9 °C	under 1 mm	1 %
October	27.4 °C	1 mm	5 %
November	20.2 °C	9 mm	19 %

See all twelve months for Kandahār

September is the 5th warmest month here.
It is the 1st driest month of the year.
It ranks 1st for least cloud cover.
Days last about 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0 of 30 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 18 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest September day on record since 1991 reached 41 °C, 7.5 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in September

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Kandahār	34 °C	0
Quetta	29 °C	1
Khuzdar	33 °C	2
Garhi Khairo	38 °C	2
Herāt	30 °C	0
Jacobabad	37 °C	2
Kabul	27 °C	2

QuestionsSeptember in Kandahār, answered

How warm is Kandahār in September?

Daily highs average 34 °C and nights fall to about 16 °C, a spread of 18 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes September the 5th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Kandahār in September?

September averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 30 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 1 % of the sky.

How long are the days in September?

Kandahār averages 12 hours between sunrise and sunset in September. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.