Rafsanjān climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.1 °C and it receives 74 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Rafsanjān?

The hottest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 2 July 2025, reaching 44.1 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Rafsanjān?

The coldest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 6 January 1973, at -17.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Rafsanjān?

Yes. Rafsanjān gets on average 4.0 cm of snow per year and has around 41 frost days.

Q: Has the climate of Rafsanjān warmed?

Yes: Rafsanjān warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Rafsanjān?

The wettest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 22 January 1957, with 39 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Rafsanjān?

The windiest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 3 February 1988, with winds reaching 57.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Rafsanjān?

The warmest month in Rafsanjān is July (31.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (6.6 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān receives on average 74 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 18 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān gets on average 11.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,088 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Rafsanjān (Iran) has a hot desert climate (BWh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 19.1 °C and it receives 74 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 (31.0 °C on average) and the coldest is January (6.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Rafsanjān averages 41 frost days, 147 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 18 rainy days per year.

Rafsanjān has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.23 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 47 to 35 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 44.1 °C (on 2 July 2025) and the coldest -17.6 °C (on 6 January 1973).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

RafsanjānKerman

coords: 30.41°, 55.99°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BWhHot desertWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthSeptember

Mean daily temperature

19.1°C

Average daily high

25.9°C

Average daily low

11.4°C

Annual rainfall

74mm

Sunshine / day

11.2h

Mean relative humidity

28%

Average peak wind

17.3km/h

Seasonal range

24.4°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

41 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

147 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

18 d/yr

Annual snowfall

4.0 cm

Average feels-like high

22.6 °C

Average feels-like low

7.7 °C

Average peak gust

32.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

71 d/yr

Solar radiation

21.9 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.9 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.45 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

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

Hottest day

44.1 °C

2 July 2025

Coldest day

-17.6 °C

6 January 1973

Wettest day

39 mm

22 January 1957

Windiest day

57.1 km/h

3 February 1988

Strongest gust

104.0 km/h

25 February 1980

Hottest feels-like

43.6 °C

2 July 2025

Coldest feels-like

-23.7 °C

6 January 1973

Snowiest day

14.6 cm

19 December 2025

Sunniest day

13.3 h

3 June 2025

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	44.1 °C2 July 2025	-6.3 °C3 January 2025	20.6 °C	124 mm	189	49
2024	43.9 °C5 August 2024	-6.8 °C17 December 2024	20.8 °C	86 mm	162	43
2023	42.8 °C30 June 2023	-5.7 °C14 January 2023	21.0 °C	79 mm	157	29
2022	43.1 °C3 July 2022	-6.5 °C22 January 2022	20.7 °C	79 mm	175	27
2021	43.1 °C12 July 2021	-9.9 °C8 January 2021	20.8 °C	19 mm	173	37
2020	41.7 °C16 August 2020	-7.1 °C27 December 2020	19.5 °C	117 mm	148	37
2019	43.3 °C6 August 2019	-4.7 °C7 February 2019	20.2 °C	94 mm	151	36
2018	40.8 °C23 June 2018	-6.5 °C10 January 2018	20.5 °C	55 mm	147	41
2017	42.1 °C22 June 2017	-6.6 °C4 February 2017	20.0 °C	76 mm	167	38
2016	41.5 °C7 July 2016	-4.8 °C25 November 2016	20.5 °C	29 mm	160	40
2015	41.1 °C30 June 2015	-7.0 °C12 December 2015	20.0 °C	105 mm	166	39
2014	42.0 °C23 July 2014	-8.2 °C9 January 2014	19.4 °C	65 mm	156	52
2013	42.4 °C3 August 2013	-8.3 °C31 December 2013	20.2 °C	52 mm	151	35
2012	42.4 °C14 July 2012	-6.3 °C6 February 2012	19.2 °C	70 mm	148	42
2011	41.7 °C5 July 2011	-6.1 °C7 December 2011	20.0 °C	63 mm	165	51
2010	42.2 °C20 July 2010	-7.7 °C29 December 2010	20.4 °C	15 mm	164	44
2009	41.6 °C3 August 2009	-6.2 °C16 January 2009	20.1 °C	62 mm	153	29
2008	41.0 °C16 July 2008	-11.9 °C6 February 2008	19.7 °C	39 mm	171	50
2007	41.7 °C14 June 2007	-8.9 °C29 December 2007	19.5 °C	47 mm	146	41
2006	42.1 °C30 June 2006	-11.3 °C2 January 2006	19.7 °C	81 mm	165	43
2005	42.7 °C26 June 2005	-4.7 °C19 February 2005	19.7 °C	51 mm	158	30
2004	41.7 °C14 August 2004	-6.4 °C29 December 2004	20.0 °C	92 mm	148	24
2003	42.2 °C30 July 2003	-9.8 °C14 December 2003	20.1 °C	57 mm	149	29
2002	40.2 °C16 July 2002	-4.4 °C31 December 2002	20.1 °C	28 mm	163	25
2001	42.8 °C13 July 2001	-9.6 °C13 February 2001	20.5 °C	36 mm	166	31
2000	40.9 °C29 June 2000	-5.3 °C11 February 2000	19.7 °C	64 mm	172	34
1999	41.8 °C6 July 1999	-7.2 °C4 January 1999	19.9 °C	82 mm	153	29
1998	43.0 °C11 July 1998	-5.4 °C24 February 1998	20.1 °C	65 mm	159	15
1997	42.0 °C24 July 1997	-7.0 °C8 February 1997	19.1 °C	110 mm	141	31
1996	38.9 °C10 June 1996	-12.5 °C15 January 1996	18.5 °C	95 mm	142	25
1995	41.4 °C14 July 1995	-5.5 °C28 November 1995	18.8 °C	137 mm	141	24
1994	42.2 °C6 August 1994	-7.1 °C9 December 1994	19.3 °C	51 mm	128	39
1993	40.1 °C20 June 1993	-7.4 °C18 January 1993	18.6 °C	149 mm	145	36
1992	39.9 °C26 June 1992	-12.0 °C30 January 1992	17.7 °C	98 mm	120	36
1991	42.4 °C10 July 1991	-6.2 °C7 January 1991	19.0 °C	102 mm	141	35
1990	41.1 °C30 June 1990	-10.7 °C31 January 1990	18.8 °C	73 mm	156	38
1989	41.2 °C9 July 1989	-9.2 °C21 December 1989	18.2 °C	50 mm	146	58
1988	40.8 °C21 July 1988	-4.4 °C21 January 1988	19.7 °C	91 mm	147	23
1987	39.4 °C10 July 1987	-4.9 °C3 December 1987	19.4 °C	25 mm	164	27
1986	40.2 °C22 June 1986	-14.4 °C13 December 1986	17.4 °C	209 mm	137	54
1985	39.6 °C28 July 1985	-4.4 °C5 January 1985	18.8 °C	58 mm	138	31
1984	38.8 °C9 August 1984	-6.7 °C19 February 1984	18.1 °C	93 mm	128	45
1983	41.2 °C28 June 1983	-7.0 °C28 January 1983	18.7 °C	65 mm	151	54
1982	40.8 °C3 August 1982	-5.6 °C22 January 1982	18.2 °C	69 mm	144	71
1981	40.1 °C1 July 1981	-4.3 °C16 January 1981	19.1 °C	38 mm	138	26
1980	40.6 °C9 June 1980	-9.5 °C2 February 1980	19.6 °C	51 mm	159	31
1979	40.8 °C9 July 1979	-6.5 °C28 January 1979	18.3 °C	76 mm	145	48
1978	41.6 °C2 July 1978	-5.6 °C16 January 1978	19.1 °C	85 mm	145	41
1977	42.6 °C13 July 1977	-7.1 °C15 January 1977	19.8 °C	120 mm	153	31
1976	40.0 °C10 July 1976	-5.6 °C19 February 1976	18.4 °C	105 mm	149	48
1975	40.7 °C19 July 1975	-6.9 °C16 January 1975	18.5 °C	54 mm	147	46
1974	39.9 °C3 July 1974	-6.0 °C22 February 1974	18.6 °C	56 mm	139	53
1973	41.5 °C13 July 1973	-17.6 °C6 January 1973	19.0 °C	41 mm	158	53
1972	41.0 °C5 July 1972	-13.5 °C26 December 1972	17.7 °C	95 mm	118	61
1971	39.9 °C24 June 1971	-15.4 °C3 February 1971	18.9 °C	70 mm	134	53
1970	42.1 °C10 August 1970	-7.5 °C30 January 1970	19.7 °C	42 mm	147	44
1969	41.6 °C24 July 1969	-6.6 °C2 January 1969	19.0 °C	50 mm	143	53
1968	40.5 °C4 July 1968	-7.2 °C20 January 1968	18.3 °C	108 mm	136	45
1967	41.9 °C10 July 1967	-10.6 °C26 December 1967	18.4 °C	60 mm	137	50
1966	40.6 °C24 July 1966	-5.9 °C28 November 1966	19.3 °C	47 mm	147	36
1965	40.3 °C14 July 1965	-8.7 °C23 December 1965	19.0 °C	76 mm	144	39
1964	41.3 °C3 July 1964	-11.7 °C21 January 1964	18.2 °C	79 mm	143	60
1963	40.3 °C17 July 1963	-10.2 °C29 December 1963	19.2 °C	55 mm	134	43
1962	37.6 °C3 July 1962	-6.4 °C26 January 1962	18.2 °C	23 mm	122	49
1961	39.5 °C11 July 1961	-4.5 °C1 February 1961	18.5 °C	77 mm	149	42
1960	41.4 °C6 July 1960	-6.7 °C29 January 1960	18.9 °C	67 mm	143	37
1959	40.1 °C26 June 1959	-14.8 °C15 December 1959	19.2 °C	62 mm	156	63
1958	40.5 °C4 July 1958	-5.2 °C24 November 1958	19.4 °C	48 mm	149	31
1957	39.5 °C15 July 1957	-12.1 °C26 January 1957	17.1 °C	167 mm	115	53
1956	39.2 °C11 July 1956	-4.9 °C4 January 1956	18.5 °C	92 mm	145	46
1955	40.9 °C21 July 1955	-5.5 °C10 January 1955	19.0 °C	68 mm	128	29
1954	39.6 °C24 July 1954	-5.1 °C17 December 1954	18.8 °C	141 mm	140	21
1953	43.5 °C1 July 1953	-6.6 °C23 December 1953	19.1 °C	137 mm	145	31
1952	41.4 °C7 July 1952	-5.8 °C20 January 1952	18.6 °C	101 mm	132	42
1951	40.6 °C8 August 1951	-8.7 °C9 February 1951	19.0 °C	140 mm	152	31
1950	40.5 °C13 July 1950	-10.9 °C9 February 1950	18.4 °C	82 mm	135	47
1949	40.8 °C10 July 1949	-13.2 °C3 January 1949	17.9 °C	94 mm	157	61
1948	39.8 °C20 June 1948	-8.0 °C31 December 1948	18.3 °C	67 mm	141	55
1947	40.4 °C4 July 1947	-8.7 °C28 December 1947	18.5 °C	86 mm	131	56
1946	39.7 °C15 June 1946	-8.6 °C25 December 1946	18.5 °C	26 mm	149	62
1945	39.7 °C27 June 1945	-6.7 °C9 January 1945	18.6 °C	47 mm	138	57
1944	41.2 °C10 July 1944	-13.3 °C21 December 1944	18.7 °C	38 mm	127	40
1943	38.7 °C6 July 1943	-6.4 °C4 January 1943	18.4 °C	65 mm	133	38
1942	40.4 °C15 July 1942	-9.8 °C8 January 1942	19.4 °C	63 mm	147	33
1941	40.7 °C8 August 1941	-4.5 °C5 January 1941	19.6 °C	29 mm	149	30
1940	41.2 °C1 July 1940	-5.5 °C18 January 1940	18.2 °C	16 mm	128	62

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.8 °C

+1.9 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

189 d/yr

+42

Frost days (< 0 °C)

49 d/yr

Annual rainfall

124 mm

+50 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	11.3 °C	-2.0 °C	39 mm	+24 mm
Feb	16.3 °C	+0.3 °C	13 mm	-1 mm
Mar	21.7 °C	+1.3 °C	9 mm	-5 mm
Apr	30.9 °C	+5.1 °C	0 mm	-9 mm
May	35.7 °C	+4.3 °C	0 mm	-2 mm
Jun	38.1 °C	+1.7 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Jul	39.4 °C	+1.9 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Aug	36.8 °C	+1.1 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Sep	35.3 °C	+2.8 °C	0 mm	0 mm
Oct	30.1 °C	+3.3 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Nov	21.4 °C	+1.5 °C	0 mm	-6 mm
Dec	15.7 °C	+0.7 °C	63 mm	+50 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

44.1 °C

2 Jul 2025

Coldest day

-6.3 °C

3 Jan 2025

Wettest day

26.0 mm

19 Dec 2025

Windiest day

46.1 km/h

24 Feb 2025

Strongest gust

75.6 km/h

24 Feb 2025

Hottest feels-like

43.6 °C

2 Jul 2025

Coldest feels-like

-10.7 °C

3 Jan 2025

Snowiest day

14.6 cm

19 Dec 2025

Sunniest day

13.3 h

3 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.1 °C and it receives 74 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Rafsanjān?

The hottest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 2 July 2025, reaching 44.1 °C.

What is the coldest day in Rafsanjān?

The coldest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 6 January 1973, at -17.6 °C.

Does it snow in Rafsanjān?

Yes. Rafsanjān gets on average 4.0 cm of snow per year and has around 41 frost days.

Has the climate of Rafsanjān warmed?

Yes: Rafsanjān warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Rafsanjān?

The wettest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 22 January 1957, with 39 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Rafsanjān?

The windiest day measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 3 February 1988, with winds reaching 57.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Rafsanjān?

The warmest month in Rafsanjān is July (31.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (6.6 °C).

How much does it rain in Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān receives on average 74 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 18 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān gets on average 11.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,088 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Rafsanjān?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Rafsanjān between 1940 and 2025 was 19 December 2025, with 14.6 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Rafsanjān?

Yes: Rafsanjān has on average 71 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Rafsanjān?

In Rafsanjān, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 43.6 °C on 2 July 2025, and the lowest was -23.7 °C on 6 January 1973.

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