Kuhdasht is a city in the Central District of Kuhdasht County, Lorestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Demographics
Language and religion
The people of the city speak Laki Kurdish and are Shia Muslim.3
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 85,519 in 58,087 households.4 The following census in 2011 counted 92,927 people in 22,819 households.5 The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 89,091 people in 24,347 households.6
Climate
| Climate data for Kuhdasht | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.2(46.8) | 10.7(51.3) | 15.6(60.1) | 21.1(70.0) | 27.4(81.3) | 34.6(94.3) | 38.5(101.3) | 37.9(100.2) | 33.8(92.8) | 26.2(79.2) | 17.8(64.0) | 10.8(51.4) | 23.6(74.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.0(26.6) | −1.5(29.3) | 2.4(36.3) | 6.5(43.7) | 10.1(50.2) | 13.4(56.1) | 17.6(63.7) | 16.8(62.2) | 12.1(53.8) | 7.8(46.0) | 3.0(37.4) | −0.8(30.6) | 7.0(44.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 73.8(2.91) | 65.1(2.56) | 81.6(3.21) | 70(2.8) | 35.7(1.41) | 1.2(0.05) | 0.7(0.03) | 0.1(0.00) | 0.4(0.02) | 18.2(0.72) | 48.6(1.91) | 71.7(2.82) | 467.1(18.44) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 15.6(6.1) | 11.9(4.7) | 5.7(2.2) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.0(0.0) | 0.1(0.0) | 5.0(2.0) | 38.3(15) |
| Average rainy days | 8.9 | 7.9 | 11 | 11.1 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 5.1 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 66.1 |
| Average snowy days | 5.5 | 5.3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 14.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 71.8 | 66.9 | 58.7 | 53.1 | 43.4 | 25.6 | 21.4 | 21.8 | 24.1 | 37.7 | 56 | 68.5 | 45.8 |
| Average dew point °C (°F) | −2.0(28.4) | −1.0(30.2) | 1.3(34.3) | 4.4(39.9) | 6.0(42.8) | 3.1(37.6) | 3.9(39.0) | 3.6(38.5) | 1.3(34.3) | 2.5(36.5) | 2.0(35.6) | −0.3(31.5) | 2.1(35.7) |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 5.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 9.3 | 12.5 | 12.3 | 11.8 | 11.1 | 8.9 | 7 | 5.6 | 8.7 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 49 | 53.9 | 52.2 | 54.4 | 63.2 | 81.7 | 81.4 | 82.4 | 84 | 72.9 | 61.6 | 51.5 | 65.7 |
| Average ultraviolet index | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Source: Weatherbase,7 Weather2visit(temperatures),8 Weather Atlas(snow-UV-rainy days)9 | |||||||||||||
See also
Iran portal
Notes
References
Also romanized as Kūhdasht and Kūh-ī-Dasht; Kurdish: کوێیەشت, romanized as Kwêyeşt[3] /wiki/Romanize ↩
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