11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
25°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ SSE 4 km/h
Humidity 17 %
Evening
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ W 1 km/h
Humidity 30 %
💧 0.1 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ SSE 7 km/h
Humidity 22 %
Evening
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ ENE 2 km/h
Humidity 30 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ SSW 8 km/h
Humidity 25 %
Evening
Clear sky
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ WSW 11 km/h
Humidity 37 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 21°
Wind↑ WSW 7 km/h
Humidity 37 %
Kandahar forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Kandahar climate: what a normal year looks like
The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 73% of the annual total; February by itself averages 53 mm.
A normal year brings roughly 200 mm of rain — less than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Day and night differ most in September: 34 °C in the afternoon against 18 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 40 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (28 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
12 °C
1 °C
45 mm
Feb
15 °C
3 °C
53 mm
Mar
21 °C
8 °C
50 mm
Apr
28 °C
14 °C
15 mm
May
35 °C
19 °C
2 mm
Jun
39 °C
23 °C
2 mm
Jul
40 °C
25 °C
3 mm
Aug
39 °C
23 °C
0 mm
Sep
34 °C
18 °C
0 mm
Oct
28 °C
12 °C
2 mm
Nov
21 °C
6 °C
9 mm
Dec
15 °C
2 °C
23 mm
Whole year
27 °C
13 °C
200 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 31.61° N, 65.71° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Kandahar: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kandahar
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kandahar, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kandahar yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kandahar
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 23:40 Set 13:54
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Kabul); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kandahar
Curious about the weather in Kandahar on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kandahar weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kandahar, Kandahar: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 20 °C (feels like 20 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.
Expected range today: 15 °C to 26 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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