Climate and average weather in Mahrīz

In Mahrīz, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late March to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mahrīz typically varies from -1°C to 36°C, and is rarely below -6°C or above 39°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 Mahrīz for warm-weather activities are from late March to mid May and late September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
36°
Coldest
Jan
-1°
Wettest
Mar
23 mm
Driest
Sep
0 mm
Rain / yr
116 mm
25 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,475 m
31.6°N
Clearest
Sep
7% cloud

Mahrīz is city in Yazd Province, Iran.

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

Mahrīz 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 March to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 20 to September 24, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Mahrīz is July, with an average high of 36°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 25 to February 25, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Mahrīz is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 11°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights year-round.

-10°10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan110
Feb142
Mar186
Apr2411
May2916
Jun3421
Jul3623
Aug3421
Sep3117
Oct2511
Nov185
Dec131

How hot and cold Mahrīz 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, Mahrīz feels like about 36°C (around July 5). About 100 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -3°C (around January 17), with roughly 71 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan1111-30
Feb1414-12
Mar181846
Apr24241111
May29291616
Jun34342121
Jul36362323
Aug34342121
Sep31311717
Oct25251111
Nov181845
Dec1313-11

Average hourly temperature in Mahrīz

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 36°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -1°C.

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

Mahrīz 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
Jan11° / -1°2251.810.23.3
Feb14° / 153.50.910.84.9
Mar18° / 2340.211.87.0
Apr24° / 11°143.3012.88.1
May29° / 16°61.7013.66.9
Jun34° / 21°00.10144.0
Jul36° / 23°00.1013.93.1
Aug34° / 21°00.1013.24.2
Sep31° / 17°00012.26.3
Oct25° / 11°30.7011.29.0
Nov18° / 132.80.210.47.0
Dec13° / 183.60.8104.6

Chance of rain

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

Mahrīz gets about 116 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 6.1 months, from around Nov 6 to May 10, peaking in January at about 18% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 15.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 23 mm over about 4 wet days; September is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainJan 16 · 18%Jun 15 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb124
Mar134
Apr113
May52
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct21
Nov93
Dec124

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mahrīz collects about 116 mm of rain across 25 wet days — roughly 10 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 23 mm, while September is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec221523146000031318
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2252
Feb1541
Mar2340
Apr1430
May620
Jun000
Jul000
Aug000
Sep000
Oct310
Nov1330
Dec1841

Snow in Mahrīz

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.

Mahrīz averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 26 to Mar 2 — about 3.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.7 days of snow and an estimated 9 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 18 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 15
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan29
Feb15
Mar01
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mahrīz, 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 19 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 28. 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 29 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 18. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 31% 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 9 · 100%Apr 12 · 69%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7624
Feb7822
Mar7327
Apr6931
May8218
Jun973
Jul991
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct937
Nov7624
Dec7723

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 17, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, 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)
Jan10.26:575:06
Feb10.86:415:32
Mar11.86:095:55
Apr12.85:296:16
May13.65:006:37
Jun14.04:516:54
Jul13.95:026:54
Aug13.25:216:31
Sep12.25:415:52
Oct11.26:015:14
Nov10.46:274:48
Dec10.06:504:47

Sunny days

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

Mahrīz averages about 22 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 14 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around May 26 to Oct 31. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 15 sunny days — about 48% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 1529 daysApr 3014 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr15Bright
May19Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct27Brilliant
Nov19Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Mahrīz, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, 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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Mahrīz is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Jan 29 to Sep 8. The windiest month is July, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 9 to Jan 28, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 26 · 9 km/hOct 23 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Mahrīz

In seasonPeak

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

Mahrīz sees seasonal dust haze (July), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Mahrīz

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early April, Mahrīz 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 Mahrīz for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to mid May and again from late September to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 18 · 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
Jan3.3poor
Feb4.9fair
Mar7.0good
Apr8.0ideal
May6.9good
Jun4.1fair
Jul3.1poor
Aug4.2fair
Sep6.3good
Oct8.9ideal
Nov7.0good
Dec4.6fair

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 Mahrīz for hot-weather activities run from late April to late June and again from late July to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 26 · 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 Mahrīz, 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 36°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 11°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Mahrīz sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Mahrīz 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 Mahrīz peaks around July 12 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 highHighModerateJul 12UV 11Jan 11UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb6High
Mar7Very high
Apr8Very high
May10Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct7High
Nov5Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Mahrīz

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)
Jan30
Feb5.50
Mar6.53.5
Apr74
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep7.54.5
Oct62.5
Nov40
Dec30

Air quality in Mahrīz 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 Mahrīz is worst in April — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.5× the cleanest month (November, 12 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 2131 µg/m³Nov 2213 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr31Moderate
May30Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Mahrīz typically lasts about 337 days, from around January 31 to January 2 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 7 to November 22.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonJan 3150%Mar 790%Nov 2290%Jan 250%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan4531
Feb6828
Mar955
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov948
Dec6531

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. Mahrīz banks about 3,089 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar67
Apr222
May394
Jun532
Jul603
Aug544
Sep421
Oct255
Nov50
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.

Mahrīz receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.5 and 8.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 29. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 98.1 kWhDec 153.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.8Moderate
Feb4.9Bright
Mar6.0Bright
Apr7.0Intense
May7.7Intense
Jun8.1Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.5Intense
Sep6.5Intense
Oct5.3Bright
Nov4.0Bright
Dec3.5Moderate

Where is Mahrīz?

Mahrīz sits at 31.6°N, 54.4°E, 1,475 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Taft, 29 km away.

AnārAbarkūh

Topography around Mahrīz

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mahrīz has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 81 m around an average of 1,479 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,900 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,104 m.

The land around Mahrīz is covered by bare terrain (41%), artificial surfaces (33%) and cropland (23%) within 3 km, bare terrain (95%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (97%) within 80 km.

3 km
81 m
16 km
1,900 m
80 km
3,104 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Taft 29 km · Yazd 36 km · Ashkez̄ar 51 km · Meybod 84 km · Ardakān 90 km · Bāfq 91 km · Anār 112 km · Abarkūh 121 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 Mahrīz (31.5843°, 54.4428°, elevation 1,475 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).