Saqqez climate

Name: Saqqez
Address: IR

Saqqez is warmest in July, with average highs of 34 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -6.8 °C. March is the wettest month (70 mm) and August the driest (1.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Saqqez averages 413 mm of rain, 130 days above 25 °C and 113 days below freezing.

Iran · population 165,258 · 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 July 34 °C
Coldest month January -6.8 °C
Driest month August 1 mm
Wettest month March 70 mm
Least cloud September 7 % cloud
Hottest on record July 40 °C
Coldest on record January -28 °C

What to expectSaqqez through the year

Saqqez has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 3.1 °C in January to 34 °C in July, a swing of 29 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 130 days a year reach 25 °C, 85 of them reach 30 °C, 113 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 70 mm against 1 mm in August — 64 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	3.1 °C	57 mm	56 %
February	4.5 °C	64 mm	54 %
March	10.3 °C	70 mm	52 %
April	16.4 °C	60 mm	48 %
May	22.5 °C	32 mm	34 %
June	29.7 °C	5 mm	10 %
July	34.2 °C	1 mm	10 %
August	34.1 °C	1 mm	8 %
September	28.8 °C	2 mm	7 %
October	21.3 °C	21 mm	28 %
November	12.0 °C	48 mm	44 %
December	5.9 °C	50 mm	54 %

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	3.1 °C	-6.8 °C	-2.0 °C	15.0 °C	-27.7 °C	0	0	29
February	4.5 °C	-5.6 °C	-0.5 °C	16.2 °C	-23.0 °C	0	0	26
March	10.3 °C	-1.0 °C	4.7 °C	23.7 °C	-16.5 °C	0	0	19
April	16.4 °C	3.9 °C	10.4 °C	28.4 °C	-12.1 °C	0	0	3
May	22.5 °C	9.0 °C	16.3 °C	32.6 °C	0.6 °C	8	0	0
June	29.7 °C	14.8 °C	22.9 °C	38.5 °C	7.2 °C	28	14	0
July	34.2 °C	18.8 °C	26.9 °C	40.0 °C	13.1 °C	31	30	0
August	34.1 °C	18.2 °C	26.6 °C	39.5 °C	9.5 °C	31	30	0
September	28.8 °C	13.1 °C	21.3 °C	36.7 °C	3.2 °C	27	11	0
October	21.3 °C	7.7 °C	14.5 °C	29.3 °C	0.1 °C	5	0	0
November	12.0 °C	0.9 °C	6.1 °C	22.0 °C	-20.1 °C	0	0	11
December	5.9 °C	-4.0 °C	0.7 °C	18.9 °C	-20.6 °C	0	0	26

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	57 mm	9	10.0 h/day	56 %	75 %	13 km/h
February	64 mm	10	11 h/day	54 %	74 %	14 km/h
March	70 mm	11	12 h/day	52 %	69 %	17 km/h
April	60 mm	10	13 h/day	48 %	62 %	18 km/h
May	32 mm	7	14 h/day	34 %	49 %	18 km/h
June	5 mm	1	15 h/day	10 %	31 %	17 km/h
July	1 mm	0	14 h/day	10 %	27 %	15 km/h
August	1 mm	0	14 h/day	8 %	26 %	15 km/h
September	2 mm	1	12 h/day	7 %	30 %	16 km/h
October	21 mm	4	11 h/day	28 %	46 %	15 km/h
November	48 mm	7	10 h/day	44 %	64 %	13 km/h
December	50 mm	8	9.7 h/day	54 %	72 %	12 km/h

How Saqqez 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
Saqqez	34 °C	-6.8 °C	413 mm	130
Būkān · Iran	35 °C	-5.1 °C	324 mm	141
Mahābād · Iran	34 °C	-5.7 °C	335 mm	136
Sulaymaniyah · Iraq	39 °C	-1.4 °C	712 mm	172
Piranshahr · Iran	33 °C	-6.5 °C	663 mm	123
Sanandaj · Iran	35 °C	-7.1 °C	428 mm	140
Marāgheh · Iran	32 °C	-6.3 °C	429 mm	122

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Saqqez’s climate

When is the best time to visit Saqqez?

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, July is the warmest month and August the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Saqqez get?

In July, 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 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -6.8 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 113 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Saqqez?

March, averaging 70 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is August with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 413 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 Saqqez 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: 36.250°, 46.273° (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.