Climate and average weather in Kangāvar

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

Best: late September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kangāvar typically varies from -3°C to 37°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 40°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 Kangāvar for warm-weather activities are from late April to late May and late September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
37°
Coldest
Jan
-3°
Wettest
Mar
74 mm
Driest
Aug
0 mm
Rain / yr
374 mm
60 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,476 m
34.5°N
Clearest
Sep
7% cloud

Kangāvar is city in Kermanshah Province, Iran.

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

Kangāvar 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 September to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.9 months, from May 30 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Kangāvar is July, with an average high of 37°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 27 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 12°C. The coldest month of the year in Kangāvar is January, with an average low of -3°C and high of 6°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 18°C) in September.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan6-3
Feb8-1
Mar132
Apr197
May2512
Jun3317
Jul3720
Aug3619
Sep3114
Oct248
Nov153
Dec90

How hot and cold Kangāvar 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, Kangāvar feels like about 37°C (around July 19). About 93 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -6°C (around January 18), with roughly 114 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan66-6-3
Feb88-4-1
Mar131302
Apr191957
May25251112
Jun33331717
Jul36372020
Aug36361919
Sep31311414
Oct242488
Nov151523
Dec99-20

Average hourly temperature in Kangāvar

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 37°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -3°C.

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

Kangāvar 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 / -3°558.96.2100.6
Feb / -1°6010510.71.6
Mar13° / 7410.32.511.73.9
Apr19° / 5290.112.86.3
May25° / 12°184.2013.87.8
Jun33° / 17°10.3014.35.1
Jul37° / 20°00.1014.12.4
Aug36° / 19°00013.32.8
Sep31° / 14°00.1012.26.1
Oct24° / 152.9011.18.4
Nov15° / 486.70.210.24.9
Dec / -1°517.539.72.0

Chance of rain

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

Kangāvar gets about 374 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 6.5 months, from around Oct 26 to May 11, peaking in February at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 22.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 74 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%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 15 · 36%Jun 22 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb3510
Mar3310
Apr309
May144
Jun10
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct93
Nov237
Dec248

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kangāvar collects about 374 mm of rain across 60 wet days — roughly 31 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 74 mm, while August is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec55607452181000154851
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5596
Feb60105
Mar74103
Apr5290
May1840
Jun100
Jul000
Aug000
Sep000
Oct1530
Nov4870
Dec5183

Snow in Kangāvar

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.

Kangāvar averages about 17 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 23 to Apr 5 — about 4.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 30 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 76 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 31
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan630
Feb522
Mar38
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec315

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kangāvar, 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 15 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 22. 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 23 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 14. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 43% 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 18 · 100%Feb 11 · 55%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb5743
Mar5941
Apr6337
May7822
Jun973
Jul991
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8218
Nov6535
Dec5743

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 10, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:305:25
Feb10.77:115:54
Mar11.76:366:20
Apr12.85:526:44
May13.85:207:08
Jun14.35:107:27
Jul14.15:217:27
Aug13.35:437:01
Sep12.26:066:19
Oct11.16:305:37
Nov10.26:585:08
Dec9.77:235:05

Sunny days

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

Kangāvar 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 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around May 19 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 11 sunny days — about 62% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 530 daysFeb 1811 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May19Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct22Bright
Nov15Mixed
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 Kangāvar, 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 Kangāvar is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 20 · 8 km/hDec 22 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Kangāvar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Kangāvar 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 Kangāvar for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to late May and again from late September to late October, with a peak score in the second week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 10 · 8.8

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
Jan0.6poor
Feb1.6poor
Mar3.9fair
Apr6.3good
May7.7ideal
Jun5.1fair
Jul2.5poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep6.1good
Oct8.3ideal
Nov4.9fair
Dec2.0poor

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 Kangāvar for hot-weather activities run from mid May to late June and again from late August to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 24 · 9.3

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 Kangāvar, 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 37°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 6°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kangāvar sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kangāvar 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 Kangāvar peaks around August 10 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 — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateAug 10UV 11Jan 11UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7Very high
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kangāvar

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 August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 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)
Jan1.50
Feb4.50
Mar5.50
Apr73.5
May8.55.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug86
Sep74.5
Oct5.51.5
Nov3.50
Dec2.50

Air quality in Kangāvar 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 Kangāvar is worst in April — around 37 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 2037 µg/m³Nov 2324 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan25Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr37Poor
May36Poor
Jun28Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep27Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov24Moderate
Dec24Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Kangāvar typically lasts about 289 days, from around February 25 to December 10 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 29 to November 9.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 2550%Mar 2990%Nov 990%Dec 1050%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2431
Feb3928
Mar7529
Apr980
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov8121
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. Kangāvar banks about 2,441 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr81
May258
Jun436
Jul562
Aug536
Sep372
Oct186
Nov11
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.

Kangāvar receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.7 and 8.1 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 2.8 kWh/m² — roughly 66% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 198.1 kWhDec 172.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.0Moderate
Feb4.0Moderate
Mar5.2Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct4.8Bright
Nov3.3Moderate
Dec2.7Moderate

Where is Kangāvar?

Kangāvar sits at 34.5°N, 48.0°E, 1,476 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Şaḩneh, 25 km away.

Topography around Kangāvar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kangāvar has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 273 m around an average of 1,512 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 949 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,556 m.

The land around Kangāvar is covered by cropland (48%) and grassland (25%) within 3 km, cropland (52%) and grassland (38%) within 16 km, and grassland (48%) and cropland (41%) within 80 km.

3 km
273 m
16 km
949 m
80 km
2,556 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Şaḩneh 25 km · Asadābād 34 km · Harsīn 43 km · Tūyserkān 44 km · Sonqor 46 km · Nūrābād 48 km · Nahāvand 51 km · Hamadan 60 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 Kangāvar (34.5043°, 47.9653°, elevation 1,476 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).