Climate and average weather in Shūshtar

In Shūshtar, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: late January to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Shūshtar typically varies from 8°C to 47°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 50°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 Shūshtar for warm-weather activities are from late January to early April and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jul
47°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Dec
104 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
484 mm
43 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
50 m
32.0°N
Clearest
Jul
2% cloud

Shūshtar is city in Khuzestan Province, Iran.

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

Shūshtar 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 January to early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.5 months, from May 19 to October 1, with daily high temperatures above 40°C. The hottest month of the year in Shūshtar is July, with an average high of 47°C and low of 30°C.

The cool season lasts 3.3 months, from November 24 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 23°C. The coldest month of the year in Shūshtar is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 18°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 18°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan188
Feb209
Mar2513
Apr3118
May3923
Jun4527
Jul4730
Aug4729
Sep4325
Oct3620
Nov2614
Dec2010

How hot and cold Shūshtar 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, Shūshtar feels like about 48°C (around July 22). About 193 days a year carry some heat stress, and 144 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan181878
Feb202099
Mar25251313
Apr31311818
May39392323
Jun45452727
Jul47473030
Aug47472929
Sep43432525
Oct36362020
Nov26261414
Dec2020910

Average hourly temperature in Shūshtar

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 47°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Shūshtar weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan18° / 938.610.16.4
Feb20° / 626.810.87.1
Mar25° / 13°776.411.87.8
Apr31° / 18°464.212.85.0
May39° / 23°51.113.60.9
Jun45° / 27°0014.10.0
Jul47° / 30°0013.90.0
Aug47° / 29°00.213.20.0
Sep43° / 25°10.412.20.0
Oct36° / 20°151.911.22.5
Nov26° / 14°805.210.47.4
Dec20° / 10°1047.89.96.9

Chance of rain

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

Shūshtar gets about 484 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 5.9 months, from around Oct 28 to Apr 26, peaking in January at about 28% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 9.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 104 mm over about 8 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetJan 28 · 28%Jun 9 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan269
Feb247
Mar216
Apr144
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep10
Oct62
Nov185
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Shūshtar collects about 484 mm of rain across 43 wet days — roughly 40 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 104 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec93627746500011580104
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan939
Feb627
Mar776
Apr464
May51
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct152
Nov805
Dec1048

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Shūshtar, 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 5.2 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 6.8 months, ending around May 18. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 35% 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 5 · 100%Dec 31 · 65%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb7129
Mar7129
Apr7129
May8020
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct8812
Nov7030
Dec6535

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 11, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan10.17:205:27
Feb10.87:045:54
Mar11.86:326:17
Apr12.85:516:38
May13.65:227:00
Jun14.15:127:17
Jul13.95:237:17
Aug13.25:436:54
Sep12.26:036:15
Oct11.26:245:36
Nov10.46:505:10
Dec9.97:135:08

Sunny days

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

Shūshtar averages about 22 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 16 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around May 20 to Oct 22. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 16 sunny days — about 48% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 130 daysJan 2516 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar18Bright
Apr17Bright
May21Bright
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct25Brilliant
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 Shūshtar, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 7% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 100%Apr 27 · 91%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan96400
Feb95500
Mar871220
Apr682570
May87940
Jun99100
Jul92511
Aug841042
Sep92521
Oct87940
Nov752040
Dec90910

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.

Wind in Shūshtar is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 3 · 9 km/hDec 17 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Shūshtar

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Shūshtar

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early February, Shūshtar 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 Shūshtar for general outdoor tourist activities run from late January to early April and again from early November to mid January, with a peak score in the first week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 6 · 8.0

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
Jan6.4good
Feb7.1good
Mar7.7ideal
Apr5.0fair
May1.0poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.0poor
Oct2.6poor
Nov7.2good
Dec6.9good

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 Shūshtar for hot-weather activities run from early March to late April and again from late October to late November, with a peak score in the first week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 5 · 8.0

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 Shūshtar, 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 47°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 18°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Shūshtar sees daytime highs around 47°C and nights near 30°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Shūshtar 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 Shūshtar peaks around August 11 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateAug 11UV 9Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep6High
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Shūshtar

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 August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 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
Feb30
Mar50
Apr6.52
May7.54.5
Jun85.5
Jul85
Aug7.55
Sep61.5
Oct5.50
Nov3.50
Dec00

Air quality in Shūshtar 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 Shūshtar is worst in May — around 51 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.6× the cleanest month (November, 31 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateMay 1050 µg/m³Nov 1831 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan35Poor
Feb42Poor
Mar48Poor
Apr49Poor
May51Poor
Jun35Poor
Jul36Poor
Aug33Moderate
Sep32Moderate
Oct32Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec32Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Shūshtar is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan990
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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. Shūshtar banks about 5,856 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan88
Feb134
Mar278
Apr437
May660
Jun787
Jul883
Aug871
Sep719
Oct560
Nov300
Dec141

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.

Shūshtar receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 24 to Oct 2. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 63% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 157.9 kWhDec 162.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.1Moderate
Feb4.2Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct4.9Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Shūshtar?

Shūshtar sits at 32.0°N, 48.8°E, 50 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Gotvand, 22 km away.

Topography around Shūshtar

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Shūshtar has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 86 m around an average of 55 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 337 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,020 m.

The land around Shūshtar is covered by artificial surfaces (35%) within 3 km, cropland (48%) and grassland (31%) within 16 km, and grassland (42%) and cropland (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
86 m
16 km
337 m
80 km
3,020 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Gotvand 22 km · Lālī 39 km · Masjed Soleymān 45 km · Dezful 56 km · Shush 59 km · Veys 63 km · Andīmeshk 65 km · Sheybān 72 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 Shūshtar (32.0497°, 48.8484°, elevation 50 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).