Gonbad-e Kāvūs climate

Name: Gonbad-e Kāvūs
Address: IR

Gonbad-e Kāvūs is warmest in August, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 1.2 °C. March is the wettest month (79 mm) and June the driest (27 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gonbad-e Kāvūs averages 552 mm of rain, 172 days above 25 °C and 29 days below freezing.

Iran · population 151,910 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month August 35 °C
Coldest month January 1.2 °C
Driest month June 27 mm
Wettest month March 79 mm
Least cloud August 21 % cloud
Hottest on record July 45 °C
Coldest on record February -14 °C

What to expectGonbad-e Kāvūs through the year

Gonbad-e Kāvūs has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 13 °C in January to 35 °C in August, a swing of 22 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 172 days a year reach 25 °C, 112 of them reach 30 °C, 29 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 79 mm against 27 mm in June — 2.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	12.6 °C	52 mm	45 %
February	13.5 °C	68 mm	50 %
March	17.3 °C	79 mm	53 %
April	22.3 °C	63 mm	53 %
May	27.6 °C	38 mm	44 %
June	32.5 °C	27 mm	27 %
July	34.5 °C	34 mm	27 %
August	34.7 °C	32 mm	21 %
September	30.9 °C	36 mm	22 %
October	25.3 °C	36 mm	29 %
November	18.4 °C	50 mm	42 %
December	14.4 °C	36 mm	44 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	12.6 °C	1.2 °C	6.5 °C	24.5 °C	-7.6 °C	0	0	11
February	13.5 °C	1.6 °C	7.4 °C	26.6 °C	-13.9 °C	0	0	8
March	17.3 °C	5.1 °C	11.2 °C	35.9 °C	-5.9 °C	3	1	3
April	22.3 °C	9.8 °C	16.2 °C	38.3 °C	-0.8 °C	10	3	0
May	27.6 °C	14.7 °C	21.5 °C	42.6 °C	2.3 °C	22	9	0
June	32.5 °C	19.5 °C	26.2 °C	44.2 °C	11.0 °C	28	22	0
July	34.5 °C	22.4 °C	28.4 °C	45.3 °C	14.6 °C	31	27	0
August	34.7 °C	22.2 °C	28.5 °C	45.2 °C	11.9 °C	31	27	0
September	30.9 °C	18.4 °C	24.7 °C	43.2 °C	9.8 °C	28	18	0
October	25.3 °C	12.6 °C	18.8 °C	40.5 °C	2.9 °C	16	5	0
November	18.4 °C	6.9 °C	12.3 °C	34.2 °C	-8.6 °C	3	0	1
December	14.4 °C	3.1 °C	8.2 °C	28.2 °C	-7.9 °C	0	0	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	52 mm	7	9.9 h/day	45 %	70 %	11 km/h
February	68 mm	8	11 h/day	50 %	71 %	12 km/h
March	79 mm	10	12 h/day	53 %	71 %	12 km/h
April	63 mm	9	13 h/day	53 %	69 %	11 km/h
May	38 mm	6	14 h/day	44 %	63 %	11 km/h
June	27 mm	4	15 h/day	27 %	57 %	12 km/h
July	34 mm	7	14 h/day	27 %	58 %	11 km/h
August	32 mm	5	14 h/day	21 %	56 %	11 km/h
September	36 mm	5	12 h/day	22 %	58 %	10 km/h
October	36 mm	4	11 h/day	29 %	60 %	9.7 km/h
November	50 mm	6	10 h/day	42 %	67 %	10 km/h
December	36 mm	6	9.6 h/day	44 %	70 %	11 km/h

How Gonbad-e Kāvūs compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Gonbad-e Kāvūs	35 °C	1.2 °C	552 mm	172
Gorgān · Iran	31 °C	2.6 °C	606 mm	147
Shahrud · Iran	32 °C	-2.2 °C	373 mm	133
Bojnūrd · Iran	32 °C	-4.7 °C	357 mm	133
Sari · Iran	32 °C	1.7 °C	878 mm	144
Qā’em Shahr · Iran	31 °C	1.3 °C	830 mm	136
Sabzevar · Iran	36 °C	-1.5 °C	184 mm	176

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QuestionsCommon questions about Gonbad-e Kāvūs’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gonbad-e Kāvūs?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. April, May, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, August is the warmest month and June the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Gonbad-e Kāvūs get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 112 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 1.2 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 29 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Gonbad-e Kāvūs?

March, averaging 79 mm over 10 days with rain. The driest month is June with 27 mm. The year as a whole averages 552 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Gonbad-e Kāvūs rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

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
Data point: 37.250°, 55.167° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
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: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. 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.