Shādegān weather in October

In October, Shādegān sees average daytime highs of 37°C and overnight lows near 22°C, with 6 mm of rain across 1.1 wet days and about 11.2 hours of daylight. It is the 6th-warmest and 7th-wettest month of the year here.

Highs ease over the month, from about 40°C in the first days to 33°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 85% of the time in October, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 42 min at the start of October to 10 h 48 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, October is Shādegān's 5th-clearest and 12th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Shādegān's year-round climate.

Daytime high
37°
6th warmest
Overnight low
22°
7th coldest
Rainfall
6 mm
1.1 wet days
Daylight
11 h 12 min
6:23 AM – 5:38 PM
Cloud cover
16%
5th clearest
Wind
11 km/h
12th windiest
Solar energy
5.04 kWh/m²
Travel score
2.3
out of 10

Shādegān is city in Khuzestan Province, Iran.

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

Temperature in October

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs ease over the month, from about 40°C in the first days to 33°C by the end.

A typical October day in Shādegān reaches about 37°C in the afternoon and slips back to 22°C overnight — a 15°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 33°C and 40°C. Set against its neighbours, October runs about 7°C cooler than September and about 10°C warmer than November.

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How October really feels in Shādegān

Once humidity and wind are folded in, October averages 30 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
30
6 feel dangerously hot (≥ 39°C)
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in October is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Shādegān weather by month

How October compares with the rest of the year at a glance. October is the 6th-warmest and 7th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan19° / 48610.27.0
Feb22° / 11°284.210.97.9
Mar27° / 15°30411.87.8
Apr33° / 20°132.312.74.1
May41° / 26°40.713.50.4
Jun45° / 30°00.113.90.0
Jul47° / 32°00.113.80.0
Aug47° / 31°00.113.10.0
Sep43° / 27°10.312.20.0
Oct37° / 22°61.111.22.3
Nov27° / 15°614.310.47.4
Dec20° / 10°565.710.17.4

Cloud cover in October

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 85% of the time in October.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 6% of October, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 9%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
1973
2973
3964
4964
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6964
7964
8964
9964
10955
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12955
13955
14955
15946
16946
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Chance of precipitation in October

Any precipitation

Shādegān gets around 6 mm of rain over 1.1 wet days in October. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 4% and peaks near 9% on the wettest days. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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Humidity in October

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

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

By dew point, October lands in the dry band about 68% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 12% of them.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
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Wind in October

Winds average 11 km/h in October, the calmest month.

Across October, daily wind ranges from about 11 km/h on the calmest days to 12 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in October

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 42 min at the start of October to 10 h 48 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 54 minutes over October. Sunrise moves from 6:13 AM to 6:35 AM, and sunset from 5:56 PM to 5:23 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
111.76:135:56
211.76:145:54
311.66:145:53
411.66:155:52
511.66:165:50
611.56:165:49
711.56:175:48
811.56:185:47
911.56:185:46
1011.46:195:44
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1311.36:215:41
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1611.26:235:38
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1911.26:255:34
2011.16:265:33
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2511.06:305:28
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2710.96:315:27
2810.96:325:26
2910.96:335:25
3010.86:345:24
3110.86:355:23

Solar energy in October

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in October, about 5.04 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 3.15 kWh/m² to a high of 7.84 kWh/m² in June across the year — October's 5.04 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
15.7Bright
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175.0Bright
185.0Bright
194.9Bright
204.9Bright
214.8Bright
224.8Bright
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244.7Bright
254.6Bright
264.5Bright
274.5Bright
284.5Bright
294.4Bright
304.3Bright
314.3Bright
Planning a trip in October

Hazard calendar for Shādegān

In seasonPeak

None of Shādegān's seasonal hazards are active in October. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

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

Dust
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
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Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Is October a good time to visit Shādegān?

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

2.3
Sightseeing
7th-best month of the year
5.7
Beach & pool
4th-best month of the year

October is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Shādegān.

What to pack for Shādegān in October

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

In October, Shādegān sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

light clothessun protection

UV index in Shādegān in October

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in October peaks around 6 — enough to warrant sun protection. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Shādegān peaks around July 14 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highVery highHighModerateJul 14UV 10Jan 1UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5High
Apr6High
May7High
Jun10Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Air quality in Shādegān in October

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

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

Air quality in Shādegān is worst in May — around 55 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorPoorMay 1055 µg/m³Nov 1045 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan50Poor
Feb50Poor
Mar53Poor
Apr54Poor
May55Unhealthy
Jun45Poor
Jul46Poor
Aug45Poor
Sep46Poor
Oct45Poor
Nov45Poor
Dec49Poor
Location & terrain

Where is Shādegān?

Shādegān sits at 30.6°N, 48.7°E, 10 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Chamrān, 48 km away.

Topography around Shādegān

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Shādegān has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 8 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 166 m.

The land around Shādegān is covered by bare terrain (44%) and artificial surfaces (26%) within 3 km, cropland (36%) and bare terrain (27%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (56%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
8 m
16 km
12 m
80 km
166 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
October weather nearby: Chamrān 48 km · Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni 48 km · Abadan 49 km · Bandar-e Māhshahr 51 km · Khorramshahr 52 km · Kūt-e ‘Abdollāh 66 km · Ahvaz 75 km · Rāmshīr 76 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 Shādegān (30.6492°, 48.665°, elevation 10 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).