Climate and average weather in Marāgheh

In Marāgheh, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late August to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Marāgheh typically varies from -8°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -15°C or above 33°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 Marāgheh for warm-weather activities are from late May to early July and late August to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
-8°
Wettest
Mar
72 mm
Driest
Aug
3 mm
Rain / yr
435 mm
82 wet days
Daylight
9.4–14.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,455 m
37.4°N
Clearest
Aug
12% cloud

Marāgheh is city in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

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

Marāgheh 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 August to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Marāgheh, 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 24, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Marāgheh is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 17°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 26 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Marāgheh is January, with an average low of -8°C and high of 0°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in August.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-8
Feb2-6
Mar7-2
Apr134
May198
Jun2613
Jul3017
Aug3016
Sep2512
Oct176
Nov90
Dec3-5

How hot and cold Marāgheh 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -12°C (around January 19), with roughly 159 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 52 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan00-12-8
Feb22-10-6
Mar77-5-2
Apr131314
May191978
Jun26261313
Jul30301717
Aug30301616
Sep25251112
Oct171746
Nov99-30
Dec33-9-5

Average hourly temperature in Marāgheh

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -8°C.

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

Marāgheh 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 / -8°498.99.79.70.0
Feb / -6°589.89.710.60.0
Mar / -2°7212.2911.70.9
Apr13° / 7113.62.712.93.5
May19° / 42100.1146.4
Jun26° / 13°123.1014.58.5
Jul30° / 17°51.6014.36.9
Aug30° / 16°30.8013.47.1
Sep25° / 12°71.7012.39.0
Oct17° / 224.70.2116.7
Nov / -0°477.43.9101.8
Dec / -6°478.289.50.0

Chance of rain

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

Marāgheh gets about 435 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 7.0 months, from around Oct 27 to May 26, peaking in April at about 46% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 3.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 72 mm over about 12 wet days; August is the driest, with 3 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 11 · 46%Aug 3 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb3510
Mar4012
Apr4514
May3210
Jun113
Jul52
Aug31
Sep62
Oct155
Nov257
Dec278

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Marāgheh collects about 435 mm of rain across 82 wet days — roughly 36 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 72 mm, while August is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec495872714212537224747
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan49910
Feb581010
Mar72129
Apr71143
May42100
Jun1230
Jul520
Aug310
Sep720
Oct2250
Nov4774
Dec4788

Snow in Marāgheh

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.

Marāgheh averages about 43 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 24 to May 2 — about 6.3 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 59 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 224 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 4
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1037
Feb1059
Mar950
Apr311
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov423
Dec845

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Marāgheh, 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 5.1 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 6.9 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is March, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 20 · 100%Apr 2 · 56%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5941
Feb5743
Mar5743
Apr5842
May7228
Jun946
Jul1000
Aug991
Sep964
Oct8020
Nov6436
Dec6040

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 15, brings about 14 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 9 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.77:445:25
Feb10.67:235:57
Mar11.76:446:26
Apr12.95:566:54
May14.05:217:21
Jun14.55:087:42
Jul14.35:207:41
Aug13.45:467:13
Sep12.36:126:26
Oct11.06:395:41
Nov10.07:125:09
Dec9.57:385:04

Sunny days

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

Marāgheh averages about 18 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 4.9 months, from around May 28 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 12 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 1029 daysApr 3011 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun24Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep27Brilliant
Oct21Bright
Nov15Bright
Dec14Mixed

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 Marāgheh, 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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Marāgheh is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 14 to Oct 1. The windiest month is July, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 2 to Mar 13, with December the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 21 · 12 km/hDec 24 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul12light breeze
Aug12calm
Sep10calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Marāgheh

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 15 · 9.1

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
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.0poor
Apr3.5fair
May6.4good
Jun8.4ideal
Jul6.9good
Aug7.1good
Sep8.9ideal
Oct6.6good
Nov1.9poor
Dec0.0poor

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 Marāgheh for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 21 · 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 Marāgheh, 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 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 0°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Marāgheh sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Marāgheh 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 Marāgheh peaks around July 15 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 13 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 highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 15UV 11Jan 13UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Marāgheh

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)
Jan00
Feb3.50
Mar40
Apr6.52
May85
Jun8.56
Jul96.5
Aug8.56
Sep74
Oct50
Nov2.50
Dec10

Air quality in Marāgheh 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 Marāgheh is worst in May — around 32 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMay 932 µg/m³Aug 1820 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan22Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar29Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May32Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec21Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Marāgheh typically lasts about 232 days, from around March 27 to November 13 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 19 to October 28.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1210%Mar 2750%Apr 1990%Oct 2890%Nov 1350%Dec 2510%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan631
Feb1128
Mar3631
Apr8418
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct973
Nov4930
Dec1331

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. Marāgheh banks about 1,514 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May117
Jun286
Jul407
Aug396
Sep244
Oct62
Nov0
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.

Marāgheh receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 25. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 67% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 277.9 kWhDec 132.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.0Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May7.1Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep5.9Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov3.0Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Marāgheh?

Marāgheh sits at 37.4°N, 46.2°E, 1,455 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Bonāb, 17 km away.

Topography around Marāgheh

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Marāgheh has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 173 m around an average of 1,477 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,017 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,422 m.

The land around Marāgheh is covered by artificial surfaces (43%), trees (28%) and grassland (20%) within 3 km, grassland (63%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and grassland (45%) and cropland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
173 m
16 km
1,017 m
80 km
2,422 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Bonāb 17 km · Malekān 30 km · Ajab Shīr 32 km · Āz̄arshahr 47 km · Mīāndoāb 49 km · Oskū 59 km · Sahand 63 km · Khosrowshahr 64 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 Marāgheh (37.3921°, 46.2391°, elevation 1,455 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).