Climate and average weather in Marāgheh

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

Best: early August to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Marāgheh typically varies from -5°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -13°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 mid May to late June and early August to late October.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Mar
70 mm
Driest
Aug
0 mm
Rain / yr
300 mm
56 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,477 m
35.8°N
Clearest
Aug
3% cloud

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 early August to late 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 4.4 months, from May 17 to September 27, 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 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from December 2 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Marāgheh is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 4°C.

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

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-5
Feb6-4
Mar111
Apr187
May2312
Jun2816
Jul3018
Aug2816
Sep2512
Oct207
Nov121
Dec7-3

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 -10°C (around January 20), with roughly 138 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 11 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)
Jan44-10-5
Feb66-8-4
Mar1111-31
Apr181857
May23231112
Jun28281616
Jul30301818
Aug28281616
Sep25251212
Oct202057
Nov1212-11
Dec77-6-3

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 -5°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 / -5°3064.89.80.0
Feb / -4°478.15.410.60.4
Mar11° / 7011.13.511.72.8
Apr18° / 6311.30.912.95.6
May23° / 12°3470.113.97.6
Jun28° / 16°51.4014.48.0
Jul30° / 18°10.2014.27.3
Aug28° / 16°00013.48.3
Sep25° / 12°10.4012.29.4
Oct20° / 920.111.18.1
Nov12° / 1941.310.14.1
Dec / -3°234.53.19.61.1

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 300 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 4.6 months, from around Jan 5 to May 25, peaking in March at about 39% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 1.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 70 mm over about 11 wet days; August is the driest, with 0 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 24 · 39%Aug 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan196
Feb288
Mar3611
Apr3711
May237
Jun51
Jul10
Aug00
Sep10
Oct72
Nov134
Dec155

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Marāgheh collects about 300 mm of rain across 56 wet days — roughly 25 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 70 mm, while August is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 60% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3047706334510191923
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3065
Feb4785
Mar70114
Apr63111
May3470
Jun510
Jul100
Aug000
Sep100
Oct920
Nov1941
Dec2353

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 19 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 31 to Apr 21 — about 5.7 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 6 days of snow and an estimated 34 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 113 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 18
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan525
Feb534
Mar425
Apr16
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct01
Nov16
Dec316

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 21 and lasts for 5.3 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 6.7 months, ending around May 20. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 46% 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 21 · 100%Mar 18 · 52%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6436
Feb6139
Mar5446
Apr5743
May7327
Jun955
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep982
Oct8713
Nov7129
Dec6832

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 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.86:464:35
Feb10.66:275:06
Mar11.75:505:33
Apr12.95:045:59
May13.94:316:24
Jun14.44:196:44
Jul14.24:316:43
Aug13.44:556:17
Sep12.25:195:32
Oct11.15:444:49
Nov10.16:154:19
Dec9.66:404:15

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 20 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 5.1 months, from around May 27 to Oct 28. The sunniest month is August, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 12 sunny days — about 61% fewer than the August peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantAug 2230 daysApr 2411 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Bright
Feb13Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May17Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
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 Marāgheh, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in May, 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 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around May 29 to Sep 10. The windiest month is July, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 11 to May 28, with October the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 20 · 16 km/hOct 22 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun13light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep10calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Marāgheh

In seasonPeak

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

Marāgheh sees seasonal dust haze (May), heaviest in May.

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 19 · 9.5

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
Jan0.1poor
Feb0.5poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr5.5good
May7.6ideal
Jun8.0ideal
Jul7.3good
Aug8.3ideal
Sep9.4ideal
Oct8.0ideal
Nov4.1fair
Dec1.1poor

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 9.7

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 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Marāgheh sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 18°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 17 at about 11 (extreme) — 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 highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 11Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7High
May9Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul12Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct6High
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
Feb4.50
Mar60
Apr73
May85
Jun8.56
Jul96.5
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct5.50
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 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 1736 µg/m³Jan 1427 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb28Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr37Poor
May35Poor
Jun29Moderate
Jul32Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep35Moderate
Oct34Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec27Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Marāgheh typically lasts about 253 days, from around March 14 to November 21 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 8 to October 31.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1450%Apr 890%Oct 3190%Nov 2150%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1331
Feb2128
Mar5631
Apr958
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct960
Nov6430
Dec2331

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 1,815 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
Mar0
Apr66
May229
Jun362
Jul424
Aug382
Sep259
Oct94
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 2.8 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 28 to Sep 28. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.8 kWh/m² — roughly 64% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.9 kWhDec 142.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May7.1Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct4.6Bright
Nov3.3Moderate
Dec2.8Moderate

Where is Marāgheh?

Marāgheh sits at 35.8°N, 59.6°E, 1,477 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Mashad, 52 km away.

ChenārānTorbat-e Jām

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 246 m around an average of 1,487 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,408 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,607 m.

The land around Marāgheh is covered by bare terrain (62%) and cropland (24%) within 3 km, bare terrain (50%) and cropland (36%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (53%) and cropland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
246 m
16 km
1,408 m
80 km
2,607 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Mashad 52 km · Ţorqabeh 58 km · Gorjī-ye Soflá 62 km · Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh 72 km · Neyshābūr 87 km · Golbahār 91 km · Chenārān 102 km · Torbat-e Jām 111 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 (35.8292°, 59.6332°, elevation 1,477 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).