Poldokhtar weather in January

In January, Poldokhtar sees average daytime highs of 10°C and overnight lows near 0°C, with 105 mm of precipitation across 10.3 wet days and about 10.1 hours of daylight. It is the 12th-warmest and 1st-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 10°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 44% of the time in January, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 9 h 48 min at the start of January to 10 h 24 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Poldokhtar's 12th-clearest and 10th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Poldokhtar's year-round climate.

Daytime high
10°
12th warmest
Overnight low
1st coldest
Precipitation
105 mm
10.3 wet days
Daylight
10 hours
7:27 AM – 5:29 PM
Cloud cover
49%
12th clearest
Wind
5 km/h
10th windiest
Solar energy
3.08 kWh/m²
Travel score
2.6
out of 10

Poldokhtar is city in Lorestan Province, Iran.

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

Temperature in January

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 10°C through the month.

A typical January day in Poldokhtar reaches about 10°C in the afternoon and slips back to 0°C overnight — a 10°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 6°C and 15°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs about 2°C cooler than December and about 2°C cooler than February.

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How January really feels in Poldokhtar

Once humidity and wind are folded in, January averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 31 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
0
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
31
wind chill below the day's low

The story in January is cold — wind chill drags the overnight "feels like" below the raw low.

Poldokhtar weather by month

How January compares with the rest of the year at a glance. January is the 12th-warmest and 1st-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan10° / 10510.32.310.12.6
Feb12° / 90101.410.83.4
Mar17° / 1039.70.111.75.5
Apr22° / 768012.87.2
May29° / 13°183.7013.76.8
Jun35° / 17°10.3014.13.3
Jul38° / 20°000141.2
Aug38° / 19°00013.21.4
Sep34° / 15°10.2012.24.5
Oct26° / 11°293.4011.27.9
Nov18° / 787.5010.36.2
Dec13° / 978.90.79.83.7

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 44% of the time in January, the cloudiest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 16% of January, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 41%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
16040
26040
35941
46040
55941
65941
76040
85941
95941
106040
115941
126040
136040
146139
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Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitationSnow

Poldokhtar gets around 105 mm of rain and snow over 10.3 wet days in January, the wettest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable precipitation averages around 32% and peaks near 38% on the wettest days, and about 2 days bring snow. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

0%10%20%30%40%50%151015202531
Rain chance (%)Snow chance (%)
1273
2283
3284
4294
5294
6305
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11316
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31388

Humidity in January

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of January feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, January lands in the dry band about 100% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

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Wind in January

Winds average 5 km/h in January.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 5 km/h on the calmest days to 6 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Sunrise & sunset in January

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 9 h 48 min at the start of January to 10 h 24 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 36 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 7:27 AM to 7:22 AM, and sunset from 5:18 PM to 5:43 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
19.87:275:18
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39.97:275:19
49.97:285:20
59.97:285:20
69.97:285:21
79.97:285:22
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1110.07:285:25
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2810.37:235:40
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3110.47:225:43

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 3.08 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 2.82 kWh/m² to a high of 8.06 kWh/m² in June across the year — January's 3.08 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
12.9Moderate
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273.4Moderate
283.4Moderate
293.4Moderate
303.4Moderate
313.5Moderate
Planning a trip in January

Hazard calendar for Poldokhtar

In seasonPeak

In January, Poldokhtar sits inside its rainy season season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

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

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

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

Is January a good time to visit Poldokhtar?

Our two travel scores rate January for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

2.6
Sightseeing
10th-best month of the year
0.0
Beach & pool
12th-best month of the year

January is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Poldokhtar.

What to pack for Poldokhtar in January

From January's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In January, Poldokhtar sees daytime highs around 10°C and nights near 0°C. Pack a warm layer. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

a warm layerrain gear

UV index in Poldokhtar in January

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in January peaks around 3. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Poldokhtar peaks around June 17 at about 10 (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 highHighModerateJun 17UV 10Jan 13UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5High
Apr7High
May10Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Air quality in Poldokhtar in January

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where January falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Poldokhtar is worst in April — around 41 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.8× the cleanest month (November, 23 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateApr 1741 µg/m³Nov 2323 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb31Moderate
Mar38Poor
Apr41Poor
May39Poor
Jun31Moderate
Jul31Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Location & terrain

Where is Poldokhtar?

Poldokhtar sits at 33.2°N, 47.7°E, 663 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Darreh Shahr, 31 km away.

Nūrābād

Topography around Poldokhtar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Poldokhtar has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 494 m around an average of 747 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,565 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,941 m.

The land around Poldokhtar is covered by cropland (33%), grassland (29%) and bare terrain (23%) within 3 km, grassland (64%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and grassland (66%) within 80 km.

3 km
494 m
16 km
1,565 m
80 km
2,941 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
January weather nearby: Darreh Shahr 31 km · Ābdānān 32 km · Kūhdasht 43 km · Dehlorān 66 km · Khorramabad 71 km · Aleshtar 94 km · Andīmeshk 98 km · Nūrābād 105 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 Poldokhtar (33.1525°, 47.7101°, elevation 663 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).