Climate and average weather in Khān Neshīn

In Khān Neshīn, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: late October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Khān Neshīn typically varies from 3°C to 43°C, and is rarely below -4°C or above 46°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Khān Neshīn for warm-weather activities are from late January to late March and late October to late December.

Hottest
Jul
43°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
16 mm
Driest
Sep
0 mm
Rain / yr
66 mm
13 wet days
Daylight
10.0–14.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
642 m
30.5°N
Clearest
Sep
1% cloud

Khān Neshīn weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Khān Neshīn, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.4 months, from May 4 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Khān Neshīn is July, with an average high of 43°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 24 to February 22, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in Khān Neshīn is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 15°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in October.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan173
Feb206
Mar2612
Apr3318
May3923
Jun4226
Jul4328
Aug4126
Sep3720
Oct3114
Nov248
Dec183

How hot and cold Khān Neshīn really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Khān Neshīn feels like about 44°C (around July 6). About 183 days a year carry some heat stress, and 106 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -0°C (around January 5), with roughly 18 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan171703
Feb202046
Mar26261112
Apr33331818
May39392323
Jun42422626
Jul43432828
Aug41412626
Sep37372020
Oct31311414
Nov242468
Dec181813

Average hourly temperature in Khān Neshīn

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 43°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Khān Neshīn weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan17° / 16310.26.8
Feb20° / 152.810.97.9
Mar26° / 12°132.811.87.9
Apr33° / 18°41.112.74.5
May39° / 23°10.213.51.0
Jun42° / 26°20.213.90.0
Jul43° / 28°00.113.80.0
Aug41° / 26°0013.10.1
Sep37° / 20°0012.22.3
Oct31° / 14°10.211.36.3
Nov24° / 40.810.59.0
Dec18° / 101.410.17.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Khān Neshīn gets about 66 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.7 months, from around Nov 30 to Apr 20, peaking in January at about 12% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 5.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 16 mm over about 3 wet days; September is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainJan 22 · 12%Jun 5 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan103
Feb103
Mar93
Apr41
May10
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov31
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Khān Neshīn collects about 66 mm of rain across 13 wet days — roughly 6 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 16 mm, while September is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 67% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec161513412001410
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan163
Feb153
Mar133
Apr41
May10
Jun20
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov41
Dec101

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Khān Neshīn, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 9 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around November 19. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 20 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around May 8. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 26% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 26 · 100%Mar 18 · 73%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb7723
Mar7426
Apr8119
May928
Jun982
Jul982
Aug991
Sep1000
Oct982
Nov9010
Dec8317

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 14 hours of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 10 hours — a swing of roughly 4 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.27:175:31
Feb10.97:035:56
Mar11.86:316:18
Apr12.75:536:37
May13.55:256:57
Jun13.95:167:14
Jul13.85:277:14
Aug13.15:456:52
Sep12.26:046:15
Oct11.36:235:37
Nov10.56:475:13
Dec10.17:105:12

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Khān Neshīn averages about 25 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 19 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.1 months, from around May 13 to Nov 13. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 19 sunny days — about 35% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2930 daysMar 2019 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr21Bright
May27Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep30Brilliant
Oct30Brilliant
Nov25Brilliant
Dec23Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Khān Neshīn, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar9810
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9910
Jul9811
Aug9900
Sep10000
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Khān Neshīn is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around May 3 to Oct 3. The windiest month is July, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 4 to May 2, with December the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 31 · 18 km/hDec 3 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb11calm
Mar12calm
Apr12light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun16light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug18light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct11calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Khān Neshīn

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Khān Neshīn sees seasonal dust haze (April–September), heaviest in July.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Khān Neshīn

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Khān Neshīn throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid December, Khān Neshīn is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Khān Neshīn for general outdoor tourist activities run from late January to late March and again from late October to late December, with a peak score in the second week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 14 · 9.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan6.8good
Feb7.9ideal
Mar7.9ideal
Apr4.5fair
May1.0poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.1poor
Sep2.3poor
Oct6.3good
Nov8.9ideal
Dec7.8ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Khān Neshīn for hot-weather activities run from mid March to late April and again from late September to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 24 · 9.4

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Khān Neshīn, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 43°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 17°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Khān Neshīn sees daytime highs around 43°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Khān Neshīn by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Khān Neshīn peaks around July 11 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJul 11UV 11Dec 17UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb6High
Mar8Very high
Apr8Very high
May8Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct7Very high
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Khān Neshīn

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan3.50
Feb5.50
Mar6.53.5
Apr74
May7.54.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug7.55
Sep74
Oct63
Nov40
Dec20

Air quality in Khān Neshīn by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Khān Neshīn is worst in August — around 78 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.1× the cleanest month (November, 25 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyPoorModerateAug 1178 µg/m³Nov 2325 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan28Moderate
Feb34Moderate
Mar37Poor
Apr41Poor
May48Poor
Jun52Poor
Jul76Unhealthy
Aug78Unhealthy
Sep59Unhealthy
Oct41Poor
Nov25Moderate
Dec25Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Khān Neshīn is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 20 to November 30 (284 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2090%Nov 3090%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7431
Feb8720
Mar990
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov960
Dec7931

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Khān Neshīn banks about 4,880 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan7
Feb93
Mar283
Apr465
May642
Jun727
Jul798
Aug727
Sep551
Oct384
Nov175
Dec30

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Khān Neshīn receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 8.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 27. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 54% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 88.1 kWhDec 203.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.9Moderate
Feb4.9Bright
Mar6.0Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May7.9Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.4Intense
Sep6.5Intense
Oct5.4Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec3.7Moderate

Where is Khān Neshīn?

Khān Neshīn sits at 30.5°N, 63.8°E, 642 m above sea level, in Afghanistan. The nearest listed city is Lashkar Gāh, 129 km away.

Lashkar GāhKhāshGereshkZaranjKandahārZābolFarahZahedan

Topography around Khān Neshīn

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Khān Neshīn.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Khān Neshīn has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 35 m around an average of 637 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 278 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 724 m.

The land around Khān Neshīn is covered by cropland (68%) and bare terrain (29%) within 3 km, bare terrain (86%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (97%) within 80 km.

3 km
35 m
16 km
278 m
80 km
724 m
croplandbare terrainwater
Nearby: Lashkar Gāh 129 km · Khāsh 145 km · Gereshk 160 km · Zaranj 190 km · Kandahār 218 km · Zābol 226 km · Farah 258 km · Zahedan 305 km

Afghanistan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 17% of US
price level, 2024
GDP per capita
$417
2024
Happiness
1.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
31%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
4
per 100k, 2021
Road deaths
15.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 446
Religion
Muslim 100%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Khān Neshīn (30.5488°, 63.7888°, elevation 642 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).