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Sanandaj weather

Kurdistan Province · 349,176 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:29

Partly cloudy
13°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 13°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
6 km/h
Humidity
84 %
Pressure
1020 hPa
Clouds
65 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:40 Set 17:30 Day 10 h 50 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Drizzle
Drizzle
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ NNW 3 km/h
Gusts 10 km/h
Humidity 69 %
💧 0.5 mm
21:00
Partly cloudy
13°
0.1mm
NNW 2
00:00
Partly cloudy
12°
NW 3

Sanandaj forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
5°9°13°17°21°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed17°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 19° · min 12° · normal 11.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 19° · min 10° · normal 11.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 19° · min 10° · normal 10.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 9° · normal 10.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 10° · normal 10.4°Tue 3 Nov: max 18° · min 9° · normal 10.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 17° · min 7° · normal 9.9°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu5°13°20°19°7°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Sanandaj climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in August: 34 °C in the afternoon against 16 °C before dawn, a 18 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 34 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −8 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 29 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 460 mm of rain — less than 88% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From June to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 18 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan1 °C−8 °C67 mm
Feb4 °C−7 °C70 mm
Mar10 °C−1 °C78 mm
Apr16 °C5 °C66 mm
May22 °C9 °C33 mm
Jun30 °C14 °C3 mm
Jul34 °C17 °C1 mm
Aug34 °C16 °C1 mm
Sep29 °C11 °C2 mm
Oct22 °C7 °C29 mm
Nov12 °C1 °C54 mm
Dec5 °C−4 °C59 mm
Whole year18 °C5 °C460 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.31° N, 47.00° 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 Sanandaj: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1027µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sanandaj

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sanandaj, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Sanandaj yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Sanandaj

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 00:39 Set 16:26
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Tehran); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Sanandaj

Curious about the weather in Sanandaj on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Sanandaj weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 13 °C (feels like 13 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 19 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations