Climate and average weather in Gorjī-ye Soflá

In Gorjī-ye Soflá, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: early September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gorjī-ye Soflá typically varies from -2°C to 33°C, and is rarely below -9°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 Gorjī-ye Soflá for warm-weather activities are from early May to late May and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
33°
Coldest
Jan
-2°
Wettest
Mar
57 mm
Driest
Aug
0 mm
Rain / yr
240 mm
48 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,004 m
36.4°N
Clearest
Aug
5% cloud

Gorjī-ye Soflá 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 early September to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.1 months, from May 21 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Gorjī-ye Soflá is July, with an average high of 33°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 24 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Gorjī-ye Soflá is January, with an average low of -2°C and high of 7°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in September.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan7-2
Feb9-1
Mar133
Apr209
May2514
Jun3118
Jul3320
Aug3118
Sep2714
Oct218
Nov143
Dec90

How hot and cold Gorjī-ye Soflá 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, Gorjī-ye Soflá feels like about 33°C (around July 9). About 42 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -5°C (around January 15), with roughly 105 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan77-5-2
Feb99-3-1
Mar131313
Apr192089
May25251414
Jun31311818
Jul32332020
Aug31311818
Sep27271414
Oct212188
Nov141423
Dec99-20

Average hourly temperature in Gorjī-ye Soflá

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 -2°C.

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

Gorjī-ye Soflá 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 / -2°255.34.49.81.0
Feb / -1°397.84.910.61.8
Mar13° / 579.82.811.73.9
Apr20° / 438.40.612.96.4
May25° / 14°254.9013.97.8
Jun31° / 18°30.8014.46.3
Jul33° / 20°10.3014.25.2
Aug31° / 18°00.1013.46.1
Sep27° / 14°10.3012.28.6
Oct21° / 81.70.111.18.5
Nov14° / 194.11.210.14.8
Dec / -1°194.32.79.62.1

Chance of rain

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

Gorjī-ye Soflá gets about 240 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 6.3 months, from around Nov 9 to May 20, peaking in March at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 21.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 57 mm over about 10 wet days; August is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetMar 24 · 33%Aug 21 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan185
Feb278
Mar3110
Apr288
May165
Jun31
Jul10
Aug00
Sep10
Oct62
Nov134
Dec144

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gorjī-ye Soflá collects about 240 mm of rain across 48 wet days — roughly 20 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 57 mm, while August is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 58% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2539574325310181919
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2554
Feb3985
Mar57103
Apr4381
May2550
Jun310
Jul100
Aug000
Sep100
Oct820
Nov1941
Dec1943

Snow in Gorjī-ye Soflá

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.

Gorjī-ye Soflá averages about 17 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 4 to Apr 15 — about 5.4 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 5 days of snow and an estimated 24 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 76 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 9
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan419
Feb524
Mar315
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov14
Dec311

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gorjī-ye Soflá, 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 20 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 29. 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 30 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 49% 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 16 · 100%Mar 15 · 49%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb5842
Mar5149
Apr5446
May7228
Jun946
Jul982
Aug1000
Sep982
Oct8614
Nov6832
Dec6535

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 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 9 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 5 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.86:474:34
Feb10.66:275:05
Mar11.75:505:32
Apr12.95:045:59
May13.94:306:25
Jun14.44:186:46
Jul14.24:296:45
Aug13.44:536:17
Sep12.25:195:32
Oct11.15:454:48
Nov10.16:164:17
Dec9.66:424:13

Sunny days

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

Gorjī-ye Soflá averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around May 28 to Oct 28. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 11 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2630 daysMar 1510 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May16Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep28Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov16Bright
Dec16Bright

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 Gorjī-ye Soflá, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, 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 (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May982
Jun982
Jul973
Aug991
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Gorjī-ye Soflá is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around May 21 to Sep 14. The windiest month is July, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 15 to May 20, with November the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 23 · 10 km/hNov 13 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Gorjī-ye Soflá

In seasonPeak

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

Gorjī-ye Soflá sees seasonal dust haze (May–July), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Gorjī-ye Soflá

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Gorjī-ye Soflá 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 Gorjī-ye Soflá for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to late May and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 29 · 9.3

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
Jan1.1poor
Feb1.8poor
Mar3.9fair
Apr6.4good
May7.7ideal
Jun6.3good
Jul5.2fair
Aug6.1good
Sep8.5ideal
Oct8.4ideal
Nov4.8fair
Dec2.1poor

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 Gorjī-ye Soflá for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 5 · 9.5

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 Gorjī-ye Soflá, 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 7°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Gorjī-ye Soflá sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Gorjī-ye Soflá 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 Gorjī-ye Soflá peaks around July 16 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 11 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 16UV 11Jan 11UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Gorjī-ye Soflá

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)
Jan00
Feb40
Mar5.50
Apr6.53
May84.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep73.5
Oct50
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Gorjī-ye Soflá 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 Gorjī-ye Soflá is worst in April — around 35 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateApr 1335 µg/m³Jan 1224 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan24Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar35Moderate
Apr35Poor
May34Moderate
Jun29Moderate
Jul32Moderate
Aug29Moderate
Sep35Moderate
Oct33Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec24Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Gorjī-ye Soflá typically lasts about 287 days, from around February 24 to December 7 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 25 to November 9.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2450%Mar 2590%Nov 990%Dec 750%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2731
Feb4128
Mar7725
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8022
Dec4431

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. Gorjī-ye Soflá banks about 2,281 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
Mar3
Apr123
May291
Jun427
Jul502
Aug458
Sep322
Oct146
Nov8
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.

Gorjī-ye Soflá receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 7.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 30 to Sep 29. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 66% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 47.8 kWhDec 152.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.9Moderate
Feb3.7Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.7Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep6.0Bright
Oct4.4Bright
Nov3.0Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Gorjī-ye Soflá?

Gorjī-ye Soflá sits at 36.4°N, 59.7°E, 1,004 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Mashad, 12 km away.

KakaDargaz

Topography around Gorjī-ye Soflá

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Gorjī-ye Soflá.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gorjī-ye Soflá has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 102 m around an average of 973 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 718 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,006 m.

The land around Gorjī-ye Soflá is covered by bare terrain (42%) and cropland (39%) within 3 km, bare terrain (40%), cropland (35%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (45%) and grassland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
102 m
16 km
718 m
80 km
3,006 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Mashad 12 km · Ţorqabeh 28 km · Golbahār 48 km · Chenārān 57 km · Marāgheh 62 km · Neyshābūr 81 km · Kaka 107 km · Dargaz 128 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 Gorjī-ye Soflá (36.3881°, 59.675°, elevation 1,004 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).