Bāneh climate — normals and trends
Bāneh has a hot-summer mediterranean continental climate, averaging 11.0 °C annually with 706 mm of rain per year.
Climate normals · ERA5
BānehKurdistan Province
- coords
- 36.00°, 45.89°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
The normals for this period
The average of every indicator across the whole window: temperature, water, sky, wind and notable days.
Mean daily temperature
11.0°C
Average daily high
17.5°C
Average daily low
4.7°C
Annual rainfall
706mm
Sunshine / day
10.7h
Mean relative humidity
55%
Average peak wind
14.3km/h
Seasonal range
28.5°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
119 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
76 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
87 d/yr
Annual snowfall
209.4 cm
Average feels-like high
14.9 °C
Average feels-like low
1.5 °C
Average peak gust
39.8 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
4 d/yr
Solar radiation
19.4 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
What the yearly averages say about warming here, and whether the slope is statistically solid.
+3.0 °C
since 1940
+0.4 °C per decade · r² = 0.50 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Climate month by month
How an average year unfolds: when it rains, when it turns hot, when the sun is out.
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
The most extreme days ever measured here, then the year-by-year detail.
Hottest day
39.8 °C
11 July 2018
Coldest day
-26.8 °C
8 January 2008
Wettest day
83 mm
17 March 1974
Windiest day
36.4 km/h
3 April 2004
Strongest gust
114.8 km/h
24 November 1992
Hottest feels-like
40.0 °C
27 July 2011
Coldest feels-like
-31.6 °C
8 January 2008
Snowiest day
42.4 cm
28 December 2025
Sunniest day
14.0 h
24 May 1940
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
A specific year
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 5.5 °C | +3.8 °C | 15 mm | -96 mm |
| Feb | 3.0 °C | -0.3 °C | 70 mm | -47 mm |
| Mar | 12.7 °C | +4.6 °C | 61 mm | -64 mm |
| Apr | 17.5 °C | +2.7 °C | 93 mm | -7 mm |
| May | 24.7 °C | +3.5 °C | 30 mm | -16 mm |
| Jun | 30.1 °C | +1.6 °C | 1 mm | -4 mm |
| Jul | 34.6 °C | +1.3 °C | 0 mm | -1 mm |
| Aug | 36.9 °C | +3.8 °C | 0 mm | -1 mm |
| Sep | 28.8 °C | +0.4 °C | 0 mm | -2 mm |
| Oct | 23.5 °C | +2.8 °C | 0 mm | -30 mm |
| Nov | 16.5 °C | +4.7 °C | 32 mm | -40 mm |
| Dec | 6.1 °C | +1.4 °C | 226 mm | +128 mm |
The year's extremes
What was the weather like that day?
The weather actually measured on a given date, anywhere in the covered window.
Climate at a glance
What these normals say about the place, in a few sentences, and the notions needed to read them.
Bāneh (Iran) has a hot-summer mediterranean continental climate (Dsa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 11.0 °C and it receives 706 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (25.4 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-3.1 °C). Rainfall peaks in March.
Bāneh averages 119 frost days, 76 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 87 rainy days per year.
Bāneh has warmed by +3.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.35 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 141 to 97 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 39.8 °C (on 11 July 2018) and the coldest -26.8 °C (on 8 January 2008).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Bāneh?
Bāneh has a hot-summer mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 11.0 °C and it receives 706 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Bāneh?
The hottest day measured in Bāneh between 1940 and 2025 was 11 July 2018, reaching 39.8 °C.
What is the coldest day in Bāneh?
The coldest day measured in Bāneh between 1940 and 2025 was 8 January 2008, at -26.8 °C.
Does it snow in Bāneh?
Yes. Bāneh gets on average 209.4 cm of snow per year and has around 119 frost days.
Has the climate of Bāneh warmed?
Yes: Bāneh warmed by +3.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Bāneh?
The wettest day measured in Bāneh between 1940 and 2025 was 17 March 1974, with 83 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Bāneh?
The windiest day measured in Bāneh between 1940 and 2025 was 3 April 2004, with winds reaching 36.4 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Bāneh?
The warmest month in Bāneh is July (25.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (-3.1 °C).
How much does it rain in Bāneh?
Bāneh receives on average 706 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 87 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Bāneh?
Bāneh gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Bāneh?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Bāneh between 1940 and 2025 was 28 December 2025, with 42.4 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Bāneh?
Yes: Bāneh has on average 4 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Bāneh?
In Bāneh, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 40.0 °C on 27 July 2011, and the lowest was -31.6 °C on 8 January 2008.
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