Climate and average weather in Dorūd

In Dorūd, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dorūd typically varies from -6°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 36°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 Dorūd for warm-weather activities are from mid May to mid June and mid September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
33°
Coldest
Jan
-6°
Wettest
Mar
121 mm
Driest
Aug
0 mm
Rain / yr
611 mm
70 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,454 m
33.5°N
Clearest
Sep
8% cloud

Dorūd is city in Lorestan Province, Iran.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Dorūd 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 mid September to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 30 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Dorūd is July, with an average high of 33°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from December 3 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Dorūd is January, with an average low of -6°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-6
Feb5-4
Mar110
Apr165
May2310
Jun3015
Jul3318
Aug3317
Sep2913
Oct228
Nov132
Dec7-3

How hot and cold Dorūd 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, Dorūd feels like about 34°C (around July 29). About 60 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -10°C (around January 22), with roughly 129 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-9-6
Feb55-7-4
Mar1111-20
Apr161645
May23231010
Jun30301515
Jul33331818
Aug33331717
Sep29291313
Oct212278
Nov131312
Dec77-5-3

Average hourly temperature in Dorūd

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -6°C.

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

Dorūd weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -6°10111.210100.0
Feb / -4°10010.5910.80.3
Mar11° / 12111.86.611.72.5
Apr16° / 8710.20.812.85.2
May23° / 10°245.3013.77.8
Jun30° / 15°10.5014.27.1
Jul33° / 18°10.10144.5
Aug33° / 17°00.1013.24.8
Sep29° / 13°10.2012.27.8
Oct22° / 193.5011.28.2
Nov13° / 697.61.610.34.0
Dec / -3°878.86.69.81.0

Chance of rain

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

Dorūd gets about 611 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.6 months, from around Oct 26 to May 13, peaking in March at about 41% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 6.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 121 mm over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 20 · 41%Jul 6 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3411
Feb3711
Mar3812
Apr3410
May175
Jun21
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct114
Nov268
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dorūd collects about 611 mm of rain across 70 wet days — roughly 51 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 121 mm, while August is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10110012187241101196987
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1011110
Feb100119
Mar121127
Apr87101
May2450
Jun110
Jul100
Aug000
Sep100
Oct1940
Nov6982
Dec8797

Snow in Dorūd

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Dorūd averages about 35 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 7 to Apr 18 — about 5.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 72 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 226 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1072
Feb963
Mar738
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov26
Dec744

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dorūd, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 14 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 25. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 26 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 13. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 45% 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 27 · 100%Jan 29 · 52%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb5644
Mar5644
Apr6040
May7822
Jun973
Jul991
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8317
Nov6436
Dec5644

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 9, brings about 14 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:235:23
Feb10.87:055:51
Mar11.76:316:16
Apr12.85:496:39
May13.75:187:02
Jun14.25:087:20
Jul14.05:197:20
Aug13.25:406:55
Sep12.26:026:14
Oct11.26:245:33
Nov10.36:525:06
Dec9.87:165:04

Sunny days

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

Dorūd averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around May 18 to Oct 24. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 12 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 829 daysMar 1311 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May19Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct23Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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 Dorūd, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% 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 (%)
Jan100
Feb100
Mar100
Apr100
May100
Jun100
Jul100
Aug100
Sep100
Oct100
Nov100
Dec100

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.

Wind in Dorūd is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmApr 30 · 7 km/hDec 10 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Dorūd

In seasonPeak

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

Dorūd's rainy season runs November–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Dorūd

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Dorūd 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 Dorūd for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to mid June and again from mid September to late October, with a peak score in the first week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 3 · 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
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.4poor
Mar2.5poor
Apr5.2fair
May7.8ideal
Jun7.1good
Jul4.6fair
Aug4.9fair
Sep7.8ideal
Oct8.1ideal
Nov4.0fair
Dec1.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Dorūd for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 13 · 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 Dorūd, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Dorūd sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Dorūd 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 Dorūd peaks around July 20 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 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 20UV 12Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb6High
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct7Very high
Nov4Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Dorūd

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 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan2.50
Feb50
Mar61.5
Apr74
May8.56
Jun96.5
Jul96.5
Aug8.56
Sep74.5
Oct63
Nov40
Dec30

Air quality in Dorūd 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 Dorūd is worst in April — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.7× the cleanest month (December, 22 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 1838 µg/m³Dec 1122 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan24Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr38Poor
May36Poor
Jun27Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct25Moderate
Nov22Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Dorūd typically lasts about 260 days, from around March 13 to November 27 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 7 to November 7.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1350%Apr 790%Nov 790%Nov 2750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1431
Feb2128
Mar5531
Apr957
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov7424
Dec2731

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. Dorūd banks about 2,029 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr33
May200
Jun368
Jul484
Aug466
Sep326
Oct149
Nov3
Dec0

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.

Dorūd receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 26 to Oct 2. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 63% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 188.0 kWhDec 152.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.3Moderate
Feb4.3Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.4Intense
Oct4.8Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Dorūd?

Dorūd sits at 33.5°N, 49.1°E, 1,454 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Aznā, 37 km away.

Topography around Dorūd

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dorūd has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 529 m around an average of 1,521 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,797 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,586 m.

The land around Dorūd is covered by artificial surfaces (33%), grassland (29%) and cropland (25%) within 3 km, grassland (58%) and cropland (25%) within 16 km, and grassland (56%) and cropland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
529 m
16 km
1,797 m
80 km
3,586 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Aznā 37 km · Borūjerd 53 km · Shāzand 58 km · Alīgūdarz 59 km · Khorramabad 65 km · Mahājerān 71 km · Karahrūd 83 km · Aleshtar 85 km

Iran travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 352% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,924
2025
Happiness
5.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
94%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2.4
per 100k, 2014
Road deaths
21.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 492
Religion
Muslim 99%Christian 1%Baha'i 0%agnostic 0%

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 Dorūd (33.4922°, 49.0616°, elevation 1,454 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).