Peshawar climate

Name: Peshawar
Address: PK

Peshawar is warmest in June, with average highs of 39 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 3.1 °C. July is the wettest month (161 mm) and December the driest (19 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Peshawar averages 791 mm of rain, 226 days above 25 °C and 7 days below freezing.

Pakistan · population 4,758,762 · 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 June 39 °C
Coldest month January 3.1 °C
Driest month December 19 mm
Wettest month July 161 mm
Least cloud October 19 % cloud
Hottest on record June 47 °C
Coldest on record January -4.3 °C

What to expectPeshawar through the year

Peshawar has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 17 °C in January to 39 °C in June, a swing of 23 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 226 days a year reach 25 °C, 170 of them reach 30 °C, 7 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 161 mm against 19 mm in December — 8.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	16.5 °C	35 mm	39 %
February	18.5 °C	66 mm	46 %
March	23.1 °C	87 mm	49 %
April	29.2 °C	71 mm	46 %
May	35.8 °C	29 mm	35 %
June	39.1 °C	39 mm	23 %
July	36.0 °C	161 mm	39 %
August	33.7 °C	153 mm	42 %
September	33.0 °C	74 mm	23 %
October	29.8 °C	36 mm	19 %
November	23.7 °C	22 mm	27 %
December	19.1 °C	19 mm	30 %

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	16.5 °C	3.1 °C	9.4 °C	24.7 °C	-4.3 °C	0	0	4
February	18.5 °C	5.1 °C	11.7 °C	28.3 °C	-2.3 °C	1	0	2
March	23.1 °C	9.6 °C	16.4 °C	37.6 °C	0.2 °C	11	2	0
April	29.2 °C	14.7 °C	22.3 °C	41.4 °C	1.8 °C	24	13	0
May	35.8 °C	20.2 °C	28.6 °C	45.3 °C	10.3 °C	30	27	0
June	39.1 °C	24.9 °C	32.5 °C	47.2 °C	17.3 °C	30	30	0
July	36.0 °C	25.8 °C	30.8 °C	46.8 °C	18.9 °C	31	29	0
August	33.7 °C	24.8 °C	29.1 °C	44.2 °C	17.7 °C	31	28	0
September	33.0 °C	22.0 °C	27.4 °C	41.9 °C	11.9 °C	30	26	0
October	29.8 °C	15.6 °C	22.5 °C	37.7 °C	8.3 °C	28	15	0
November	23.7 °C	9.4 °C	16.0 °C	32.3 °C	1.0 °C	10	0	0
December	19.1 °C	5.0 °C	11.4 °C	26.5 °C	-2.3 °C	0	0	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	35 mm	4	10 h/day	39 %	58 %	8.7 km/h
February	66 mm	7	11 h/day	46 %	59 %	9.6 km/h
March	87 mm	9	12 h/day	49 %	60 %	9.9 km/h
April	71 mm	7	13 h/day	46 %	53 %	11 km/h
May	29 mm	5	14 h/day	35 %	38 %	12 km/h
June	39 mm	6	14 h/day	23 %	39 %	12 km/h
July	161 mm	17	14 h/day	39 %	64 %	12 km/h
August	153 mm	19	13 h/day	42 %	72 %	11 km/h
September	74 mm	10	12 h/day	23 %	64 %	10.0 km/h
October	36 mm	4	11 h/day	19 %	52 %	9.2 km/h
November	22 mm	3	10 h/day	27 %	55 %	8.8 km/h
December	19 mm	2	9.9 h/day	30 %	55 %	8.7 km/h

How Peshawar 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
Peshawar	39 °C	3.1 °C	791 mm	226
Mardan · Pakistan	38 °C	3.4 °C	862 mm	222
Kohat · Pakistan	38 °C	3.2 °C	748 mm	223
Tordher · Pakistan	38 °C	4.1 °C	1,148 mm	218
Mingora · Pakistan	32 °C	-0.7 °C	1,388 mm	173
Jalālābād · Afghanistan	37 °C	4.8 °C	279 mm	200
Islamabad · Pakistan	36 °C	4.0 °C	1,007 mm	210

Where Peshawar ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in November	42ndof 50	95/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Peshawar’s climate

When is the best time to visit Peshawar?

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

How hot does Peshawar get?

In June, the warmest month, daily highs average 39 °C. About 170 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 47 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 3.1 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 7 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Peshawar?

July, averaging 161 mm over 17 days with rain. The driest month is December with 19 mm. The year as a whole averages 791 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 Peshawar 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.