Climate
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Herāt has a cold semi-desert climate (Köppen climate classification BSk).
Precipitation is very low, and mostly falls in winter. Although Herāt is approximately 240 m (790 ft) lower than Kandahar, the summer climate is more temperate, and the climate throughout the year is far from disagreeable. From May to September, the wind blows from the northwest with great force.
The winter is tolerably mild; snow melts as it falls, and even on the mountains does not lie long. Three years out of four it does not freeze hard enough for the people to store ice. The eastern reaches of the Hari River, including the rapids, are frozen hard in the winter, and people travel on it as on a road.
| Climate data for Herāt | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 24.4 (75.9) |
27.6 (81.7) |
31.0 (87.8) |
37.8 (100.0) |
39.7 (103.5) |
44.6 (112.3) |
46.0 (114.8) |
42.7 (108.9) |
39.3 (102.7) |
37.0 (98.6) |
30.0 (86.0) |
26.5 (79.7) |
46 (114.8) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 9.1 (48.4) |
11.9 (53.4) |
17.9 (64.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
29.6 (85.3) |
35.0 (95.0) |
36.7 (98.1) |
35.1 (95.2) |
31.4 (88.5) |
25.0 (77.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
12.0 (53.6) |
23.79 (74.83) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.9 (37.2) |
5.5 (41.9) |
10.2 (50.4) |
16.3 (61.3) |
22.1 (71.8) |
27.2 (81.0) |
29.8 (85.6) |
28.0 (82.4) |
22.9 (73.2) |
16.1 (61.0) |
8.8 (47.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
16.21 (61.17) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −2.9 (26.8) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
3.8 (38.8) |
9.1 (48.4) |
13.3 (55.9) |
18.2 (64.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
19.2 (66.6) |
13.2 (55.8) |
7.4 (45.3) |
1.0 (33.8) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
8.46 (47.22) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −26.7 (−16.1) |
−20.5 (−4.9) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
0.8 (33.4) |
9.7 (49.5) |
14.7 (58.5) |
8.4 (47.1) |
1.3 (34.3) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−22.7 (−8.9) |
−26.7 (−16.1) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 51.6 (2.031) |
44.8 (1.764) |
55.1 (2.169) |
29.2 (1.15) |
9.8 (0.386) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
1.7 (0.067) |
10.9 (0.429) |
35.8 (1.409) |
238.9 (9.406) |
| % humidity | 72 | 69 | 62 | 56 | 45 | 34 | 30 | 30 | 34 | 42 | 55 | 67 | 49.7 |
| Avg. rainy days | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 40 |
| Avg. snowy days | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 149.3 | 153.5 | 202.5 | 235.7 | 329.6 | 362.6 | 378.6 | 344.8 | 323.2 | 274.0 | 235.0 | 143.1 | 3,131.9 |
| Source: NOAA (1959-1983) | |||||||||||||
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