Climate of Quetta
Quetta, Pakistan features a continental semi-arid climate with a large variation between summer and winter temperatures. The highest temperature recorded in Quetta was 42 °C (108 °F) on 10 July 1998. The lowest temperature in Quetta is −18.3 °C (−0.9 °F) which was recorded on 8 January 1970.
Summer starts in late May and continues until early September with average temperatures ranging from 24 °C (75 °F) to 26 °C (79 °F). Autumn starts in late September and continues until mid-November with average temperatures of 12 °C (54 °F) to 18 °C (64 °F). Winter starts in late November and ends in late March, with average temperatures near 4 °C (39 °F) to 5 °C (41 °F). Spring starts in early April and ends in late May, with average temperatures close to 15 °C (59 °F). Unlike most of Pakistan, however, Quetta does not have a monsoon of sustained, heavy rainfall. The highest rainfall during a 24-hour period is 113 millimetres (4.4 in) recorded on 17 December 2000; the highest monthly rainfall is 232.4 millimetres (9.15 in), which was recorded in March 1982; and the highest annual rainfall recorded is 949.8 millimetres (37.39 in) in 1982. A lot of precipitation in winter is snow, falling mostly in December, January and February.
| Climate data for Quetta (1991-2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.6 (74.5) |
26.7 (80.1) |
31.5 (88.7) |
35.4 (95.7) |
39.4 (102.9) |
41.5 (106.7) |
42.0 (107.6) |
40.6 (105.1) |
38.3 (100.9) |
34.0 (93.2) |
36.0 (96.8) |
25.0 (77.0) |
42.0 (107.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11.8 (53.2) |
14.0 (57.2) |
19.5 (67.1) |
25.9 (78.6) |
31.4 (88.5) |
35.5 (95.9) |
36.8 (98.2) |
35.4 (95.7) |
31.9 (89.4) |
26.0 (78.8) |
19.6 (67.3) |
14.6 (58.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.8 (40.6) |
7.1 (44.8) |
12.5 (54.5) |
17.9 (64.2) |
23.0 (73.4) |
27.3 (81.1) |
29.2 (84.6) |
27.5 (81.5) |
22.8 (73.0) |
16.5 (61.7) |
11.0 (51.8) |
6.5 (43.7) |
17.2 (62.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.9 (28.6) |
0.3 (32.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
10.0 (50.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
19.0 (66.2) |
21.6 (70.9) |
19.7 (67.5) |
13.6 (56.5) |
7.0 (44.6) |
1.9 (35.4) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
9.1 (48.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.3 (−0.9) |
−16.7 (1.9) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
5.0 (41.0) |
8.9 (48.0) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−8.3 (17.1) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 55.0 (2.17) |
58.4 (2.30) |
49.5 (1.95) |
40.0 (1.57) |
17.8 (0.70) |
3.2 (0.13) |
8.8 (0.35) |
4.9 (0.19) |
4.2 (0.17) |
4.5 (0.18) |
19.3 (0.76) |
34.6 (1.36) |
300.2 (11.83) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 22 (8.7) |
17 (6.6) |
3.0 (1.2) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0.51 (0.2) |
14 (5.4) |
56.51 (22.1) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 5.0 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 29.6 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 63 | 59 | 54 | 50 | 43 | 36 | 43 | 42 | 39 | 40 | 47 | 56 | 48 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 220.1 | 209.0 | 232.5 | 273.0 | 334.8 | 327.0 | 313.1 | 313.1 | 294.0 | 306.9 | 279.0 | 238.7 | 3,341.2 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 9.1 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 9.3 | 7.7 | 9.1 |
| Source 1: NOAA, Hong Kong Observatory (altitude: 1589 m) (only snow inch, sun) | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: PMD, Deutscher Wetterdienst (humidity 1951-1967) | |||||||||||||