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Weather extremes

How extreme does Peshawar's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Peshawar has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1973–present), from the Peshawar Intl station 6 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Peshawar has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
122°F Jun 17, 1995

That is about 21°F hotter than a normal June afternoon in Peshawar (typical high near 101°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 122°F Jun 17, 1995
2 121°F Jul 7, 1995
3 119°F Jun 18, 1985
❄️ Coldest night
27°F Feb 5, 1981

About 18°F colder than a normal February night in Peshawar (typical low near 45°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 27°F Feb 5, 1981
2 28°F Feb 28, 1973
3 29°F Jan 2, 1984
🌧️ Most rain in one day
12.20 in Jul 21, 2015

More rain in a single day than Peshawar usually gets in the whole month of July (typical July total about 4.8 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 12.20 in Jul 21, 2015
2 11.42 in Mar 8, 2020
3 10.79 in Jul 29, 2010

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

10°30°50°70°90°110°130°150° all-time high 122°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Peshawar's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — June's 122°F is about 21°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Peshawar's warmest days reach the low 100s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 30s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 122°F and as low as 27°F. A single day has delivered over 12 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 12 years of daily observations at Peshawar Intl, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →