Climate and average weather in Gotvand

In Gotvand, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early February to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gotvand typically varies from 7°C to 46°C, and is rarely below 2°C or above 49°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 Gotvand for warm-weather activities are from early February to mid April and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jul
46°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
118 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
574 mm
47 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
70 m
32.2°N
Clearest
Jul
3% cloud

Gotvand is city in Khuzestan Province, Iran.

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

Gotvand 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 February to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Gotvand, 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 20 to September 30, with daily high temperatures above 39°C. The hottest month of the year in Gotvand is July, with an average high of 46°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 24 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in Gotvand is January, with an average low of 7°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 18°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan177
Feb198
Mar2412
Apr3017
May3822
Jun4426
Jul4629
Aug4628
Sep4224
Oct3519
Nov2513
Dec199

How hot and cold Gotvand 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, Gotvand feels like about 46°C (around July 24). About 183 days a year carry some heat stress, and 132 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan171767
Feb191978
Mar24241212
Apr30301717
May38382222
Jun44442626
Jul46462929
Aug46462828
Sep42422424
Oct35351919
Nov25251313
Dec191989

Average hourly temperature in Gotvand

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 46°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Gotvand 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° / 1149.810.15.8
Feb19° / 817.710.86.7
Mar24° / 12°98711.87.7
Apr30° / 17°57512.86.0
May38° / 22°61.313.61.6
Jun44° / 26°00.114.10.0
Jul46° / 29°0013.90.0
Aug46° / 28°00.113.20.0
Sep42° / 24°10.312.20.1
Oct35° / 19°161.911.23.4
Nov25° / 13°825.910.37.5
Dec19° / 11889.96.7

Chance of rain

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

Gotvand gets about 574 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 6.0 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 28, peaking in January at about 33% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 13.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 118 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetJan 27 · 33%Jun 13 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3010
Feb288
Mar237
Apr175
May51
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct62
Nov206
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gotvand collects about 574 mm of rain across 47 wet days — roughly 48 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 118 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec114819857600011682118
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan11410
Feb818
Mar987
Apr575
May61
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct162
Nov826
Dec1188

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gotvand, 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 17 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around October 22. The clearest month is July, 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 23 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around May 16. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 36% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 6 · 100%Jan 6 · 63%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6436
Feb7030
Mar7030
Apr7129
May8020
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8713
Nov6931
Dec6436

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 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.17:215:27
Feb10.87:055:54
Mar11.86:326:17
Apr12.85:516:39
May13.65:227:00
Jun14.15:127:18
Jul13.95:237:18
Aug13.25:436:55
Sep12.26:036:15
Oct11.26:245:36
Nov10.36:505:10
Dec9.97:145:08

Sunny days

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

Gotvand averages about 22 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 15 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around May 20 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 16 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 130 daysJan 2515 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr17Bright
May21Bright
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov17Bright
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 Gotvand, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9910
Feb9910
Mar9361
Apr77212
May8992
Jun10000
Jul9531
Aug9162
Sep9532
Oct9172
Nov85141
Dec9640

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 Gotvand is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 3 · 8 km/hDec 11 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Gotvand

In seasonPeak

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

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

Gotvand sees seasonal dust haze (March–May), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Gotvand

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid February, Gotvand is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Gotvand for general outdoor tourist activities run from early February to mid April and again from early November to early January, with a peak score in the third week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 16 · 7.8

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
Jan5.8good
Feb6.7good
Mar7.6ideal
Apr5.9good
May1.7poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.1poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov7.4good
Dec6.7good

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 Gotvand for hot-weather activities run from late March to early May and again from mid October to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 31 · 8.0

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 Gotvand, 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 46°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 17°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Gotvand sees daytime highs around 46°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Gotvand 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 Gotvand peaks around June 15 at about 10 (very high) — 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 — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 15UV 10Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Gotvand

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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)
Jan00
Feb3.50
Mar4.50
Apr6.52.5
May85
Jun8.55.5
Jul85
Aug7.55
Sep62
Oct5.50
Nov3.50
Dec1.50

Air quality in Gotvand 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 Gotvand is worst in May — around 51 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.6× the cleanest month (November, 31 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateMay 1050 µg/m³Nov 1831 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan35Poor
Feb42Poor
Mar48Poor
Apr49Poor
May51Poor
Jun35Poor
Jul36Poor
Aug33Moderate
Sep32Moderate
Oct32Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec32Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gotvand is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan970
Feb980
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec990

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. Gotvand banks about 5,424 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)
Jan56
Feb102
Mar238
Apr395
May615
Jun748
Jul846
Aug836
Sep684
Oct523
Nov268
Dec114

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.

Gotvand receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 25 to Oct 2. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

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

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 157.9 kWhDec 162.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.1Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct4.9Bright
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Gotvand?

Gotvand sits at 32.2°N, 48.8°E, 70 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Shūshtar, 22 km away.

Topography around Gotvand

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gotvand has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 29 m around an average of 72 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 678 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,716 m.

The land around Gotvand is covered by cropland (68%) within 3 km, cropland (43%) and grassland (38%) within 16 km, and grassland (49%) and cropland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
29 m
16 km
678 m
80 km
3,716 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Shūshtar 22 km · Lālī 28 km · Dezful 41 km · Andīmeshk 49 km · Shush 54 km · Masjed Soleymān 58 km · Veys 85 km · Ḥamīdiyeh 92 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 Gotvand (32.2458°, 48.8132°, elevation 70 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).