Mahābād climate

Name: Mahābād
Address: IR

Mahābād is warmest in August, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -5.7 °C. March is the wettest month (55 mm) and August the driest (1.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Mahābād averages 335 mm of rain, 136 days above 25 °C and 101 days below freezing.

Iran · population 168,393 · 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 34 °C
Coldest month January -5.7 °C
Driest month August 1 mm
Wettest month March 55 mm
Least cloud August 8 % cloud
Hottest on record July 41 °C
Coldest on record January -22 °C

What to expectMahābād through the year

Mahābād has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 4.3 °C in January to 34 °C in August, a swing of 28 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 136 days a year reach 25 °C, 85 of them reach 30 °C, 101 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 55 mm against 1 mm in August — 47 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	4.3 °C	43 mm	54 %
February	6.2 °C	47 mm	50 %
March	11.8 °C	55 mm	49 %
April	17.9 °C	48 mm	47 %
May	23.8 °C	32 mm	36 %
June	30.1 °C	7 mm	12 %
July	33.6 °C	3 mm	9 %
August	33.7 °C	1 mm	8 %
September	29.0 °C	2 mm	8 %
October	21.8 °C	18 mm	28 %
November	12.8 °C	38 mm	44 %
December	6.8 °C	41 mm	52 %

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	4.3 °C	-5.7 °C	-1.0 °C	15.4 °C	-22.0 °C	0	0	28
February	6.2 °C	-4.4 °C	0.7 °C	18.1 °C	-21.2 °C	0	0	25
March	11.8 °C	0.0 °C	5.9 °C	24.6 °C	-15.3 °C	0	0	16
April	17.9 °C	5.0 °C	11.7 °C	30.4 °C	-5.4 °C	1	0	1
May	23.8 °C	10.3 °C	17.5 °C	33.6 °C	2.2 °C	13	1	0
June	30.1 °C	15.4 °C	23.3 °C	38.7 °C	7.5 °C	28	16	0
July	33.6 °C	19.2 °C	26.8 °C	41.0 °C	12.9 °C	31	28	0
August	33.7 °C	18.9 °C	26.5 °C	41.0 °C	11.7 °C	31	28	0
September	29.0 °C	14.4 °C	21.7 °C	37.1 °C	4.5 °C	26	13	0
October	21.8 °C	9.0 °C	15.2 °C	30.7 °C	1.5 °C	7	0	0
November	12.8 °C	2.0 °C	7.0 °C	23.3 °C	-18.6 °C	0	0	8
December	6.8 °C	-2.8 °C	1.5 °C	20.2 °C	-21.2 °C	0	0	23

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	43 mm	7	9.9 h/day	54 %	75 %	13 km/h
February	47 mm	8	11 h/day	50 %	73 %	14 km/h
March	55 mm	9	12 h/day	49 %	67 %	17 km/h
April	48 mm	9	13 h/day	47 %	60 %	18 km/h
May	32 mm	7	14 h/day	36 %	49 %	18 km/h
June	7 mm	2	15 h/day	12 %	36 %	17 km/h
July	3 mm	1	14 h/day	9 %	36 %	16 km/h
August	1 mm	0	14 h/day	8 %	34 %	15 km/h
September	2 mm	1	12 h/day	8 %	36 %	15 km/h
October	18 mm	4	11 h/day	28 %	49 %	15 km/h
November	38 mm	7	10 h/day	44 %	66 %	13 km/h
December	41 mm	6	9.7 h/day	52 %	73 %	12 km/h

How Mahābād 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
Mahābād	34 °C	-5.7 °C	335 mm	136
Būkān · Iran	35 °C	-5.1 °C	324 mm	141
Piranshahr · Iran	33 °C	-6.5 °C	663 mm	123
Saqqez · Iran	34 °C	-6.8 °C	413 mm	130
Marāgheh · Iran	32 °C	-6.3 °C	429 mm	122
Orūmīyeh · Iran	31 °C	-5.9 °C	361 mm	109
Sulaymaniyah · Iraq	39 °C	-1.4 °C	712 mm	172

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Mahābād.

QuestionsCommon questions about Mahābād’s climate

When is the best time to visit Mahābād?

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

How hot does Mahābād get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 34 °C. About 85 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -5.7 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 101 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Mahābād?

March, averaging 55 mm over 9 days with rain. The driest month is August with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 335 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 Mahābād 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: 36.763°, 45.722° (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.