Climate
Bushehr, being located on the hot Persian Gulf, has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) though it does receive rather more rainfall than most cities on the Gulf. This rain, however, is confined to the period from November to February, when temperatures are pleasantly mild, and is extremely erratic, with some years having as little as 65 millimetres (2.6 in) and others such as 1957/1958 and 1997/1998 as much as 700 millimetres (28 in). The long summer from April to October is brutally hot, humid and completely rainless.
| Climate data for Bushehr | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 18.5 (65.3) |
20.0 (68.0) |
24.2 (75.6) |
29.1 (84.4) |
34.1 (93.4) |
35.7 (96.3) |
37.4 (99.3) |
37.5 (99.5) |
36.3 (97.3) |
32.6 (90.7) |
26.5 (79.7) |
20.9 (69.6) |
29.40 (84.92) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 14.1 (57.4) |
15.7 (60.3) |
19.3 (66.7) |
23.7 (74.7) |
28.8 (83.8) |
31.1 (88.0) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.7 (90.9) |
30.6 (87.1) |
26.7 (80.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
16.2 (61.2) |
24.39 (75.91) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 10.0 (50.0) |
11.1 (52.0) |
14.4 (57.9) |
18.6 (65.5) |
23.4 (74.1) |
26.2 (79.2) |
28.2 (82.8) |
28.0 (82.4) |
24.6 (76.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
15.7 (60.3) |
11.7 (53.1) |
19.37 (66.86) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 66.4 (2.614) |
33.9 (1.335) |
20.3 (0.799) |
8.7 (0.343) |
1.5 (0.059) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
8.4 (0.331) |
27.3 (1.075) |
62.0 (2.441) |
228.5 (8.996) |
| Avg. rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 6.3 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 4.9 | 23.7 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 204.6 | 206.1 | 223.2 | 234.0 | 291.4 | 327.0 | 322.4 | 325.5 | 297.0 | 279.0 | 231.0 | 192.2 | 3,133.4 |
| Source: HKO | |||||||||||||
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