Piranshahr climate

Name: Piranshahr
Address: IR

Piranshahr is warmest in August, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -6.5 °C. March is the wettest month (110 mm) and August the driest (3.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Piranshahr averages 663 mm of rain, 123 days above 25 °C and 110 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 33 °C
Coldest month January -6.5 °C
Driest month August 3 mm
Wettest month March 110 mm
Least cloud August 9 % cloud
Hottest on record July 39 °C
Coldest on record January -27 °C

What to expectPiranshahr through the year

Piranshahr has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 1.7 °C in January to 33 °C in August, a swing of 29 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 123 days a year reach 25 °C, 68 of them reach 30 °C, 110 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 110 mm against 3 mm in August — 36 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	1.7 °C	87 mm	60 %
February	3.1 °C	99 mm	58 %
March	8.0 °C	110 mm	57 %
April	15.2 °C	92 mm	52 %
May	21.9 °C	58 mm	38 %
June	28.3 °C	12 mm	13 %
July	32.3 °C	5 mm	10 %
August	32.6 °C	3 mm	9 %
September	28.0 °C	7 mm	9 %
October	20.7 °C	37 mm	32 %
November	11.1 °C	71 mm	49 %
December	4.3 °C	81 mm	58 %

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	1.7 °C	-6.5 °C	-2.5 °C	14.6 °C	-27.2 °C	0	0	30
February	3.1 °C	-5.1 °C	-1.1 °C	14.3 °C	-19.2 °C	0	0	26
March	8.0 °C	-0.8 °C	3.7 °C	22.6 °C	-15.4 °C	0	0	18
April	15.2 °C	4.4 °C	9.9 °C	28.2 °C	-9.3 °C	0	0	3
May	21.9 °C	10.3 °C	16.4 °C	31.1 °C	-0.4 °C	7	0	0
June	28.3 °C	15.7 °C	22.4 °C	37.1 °C	7.1 °C	26	9	0
July	32.3 °C	19.2 °C	26.0 °C	39.1 °C	11.3 °C	31	25	0
August	32.6 °C	19.5 °C	26.2 °C	38.8 °C	11.0 °C	31	26	0
September	28.0 °C	15.2 °C	21.5 °C	35.9 °C	4.5 °C	24	8	0
October	20.7 °C	9.5 °C	14.8 °C	29.6 °C	-0.6 °C	5	0	0
November	11.1 °C	1.7 °C	6.0 °C	22.1 °C	-18.6 °C	0	0	8
December	4.3 °C	-4.1 °C	-0.1 °C	18.4 °C	-20.5 °C	0	0	25

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	87 mm	10	9.9 h/day	60 %	78 %	9.4 km/h
February	99 mm	10	11 h/day	58 %	78 %	10 km/h
March	110 mm	11	12 h/day	57 %	75 %	11 km/h
April	92 mm	12	13 h/day	52 %	69 %	13 km/h
May	58 mm	11	14 h/day	38 %	57 %	14 km/h
June	12 mm	3	15 h/day	13 %	42 %	13 km/h
July	5 mm	1	14 h/day	10 %	38 %	12 km/h
August	3 mm	1	14 h/day	9 %	35 %	12 km/h
September	7 mm	2	12 h/day	9 %	38 %	13 km/h
October	37 mm	7	11 h/day	32 %	53 %	12 km/h
November	71 mm	8	10 h/day	49 %	69 %	9.9 km/h
December	81 mm	9	9.7 h/day	58 %	76 %	9.2 km/h

How Piranshahr 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
Piranshahr	33 °C	-6.5 °C	663 mm	123
Mahābād · Iran	34 °C	-5.7 °C	335 mm	136
Orūmīyeh · Iran	31 °C	-5.9 °C	361 mm	109
Būkān · Iran	35 °C	-5.1 °C	324 mm	141
Saqqez · Iran	34 °C	-6.8 °C	413 mm	130
Erbil · Iraq	41 °C	1.3 °C	536 mm	191
Marāgheh · Iran	32 °C	-6.3 °C	429 mm	122

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Piranshahr’s climate

When is the best time to visit Piranshahr?

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 Piranshahr get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 68 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -6.5 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 110 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Piranshahr?

March, averaging 110 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is August with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 663 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 Piranshahr 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
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.