Aghajari Persian:آغاجاری | |
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  Aghajari | |
| Coordinates:30°42′02″N49°49′44″E / 30.70056°N 49.82889°E /30.70056; 49.82889[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | Khuzestan |
| County | Aghajari |
| District | Central |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 11,912 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Aghajari (Persian:آغاجاری)[a] is a city in theCentral District ofAghajari County,Khuzestan province,Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4]
The language of the people of Aghajari is the same asMasjid Suleiman andLori Bakhtiari.[5]
Because of theIran-Iraq War, the city's population dropped from 64,102 in 1986 to around 16,337 in the 1991 census and its population continued to drop long after the 1991 census (held 3 years after the end of the Iran-Iraq War).[citation needed]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 13,152 in 2,943 households, when it was in the formerAghajari District ofBehbahan County[6] The following census in 2011 counted 12,653 people in 3,400 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 11,912 people in 3,477 households,[2] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Aghajari County.[4]
Aghajari has ahot desert climate (Köppen climate classificationBWh) with long, scorching hot summers and pleasant to warm, short winters. Aghajari is consistently one of the hottest places on the planet during the summer, with summer temperatures regularly at least 45 °C or 113 °F, sometimes exceeding 50 °C or 122 °F with many sandstorms and duststorms. However, in winters, the minimum temperature can fall to around 5 °C or 41 °F. Winters in Aghajari have no snow. The average annual rainfall is around 260 millimetres or 10.2 inches.
| Climate data for Aghajari (1984-2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 28.0 (82.4) | 32.6 (90.7) | 38.4 (101.1) | 44.0 (111.2) | 49.6 (121.3) | 51.4 (124.5) | 51.6 (124.9) | 52.0 (125.6) | 49.0 (120.2) | 43.6 (110.5) | 37.0 (98.6) | 30.2 (86.4) | 52.0 (125.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 18.0 (64.4) | 21.3 (70.3) | 26.2 (79.2) | 33.3 (91.9) | 40.6 (105.1) | 45.2 (113.4) | 46.7 (116.1) | 46.3 (115.3) | 42.7 (108.9) | 36.7 (98.1) | 27.3 (81.1) | 20.1 (68.2) | 33.7 (92.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 12.8 (55.0) | 15.3 (59.5) | 19.4 (66.9) | 25.7 (78.3) | 32.0 (89.6) | 35.4 (95.7) | 37.4 (99.3) | 37.0 (98.6) | 33.0 (91.4) | 27.8 (82.0) | 20.1 (68.2) | 14.6 (58.3) | 25.9 (78.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) | 9.2 (48.6) | 12.6 (54.7) | 18.2 (64.8) | 23.3 (73.9) | 25.6 (78.1) | 28.0 (82.4) | 27.6 (81.7) | 23.1 (73.6) | 18.8 (65.8) | 13.0 (55.4) | 9.0 (48.2) | 18.0 (64.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −1.0 (30.2) | −2.0 (28.4) | 0.0 (32.0) | 7.0 (44.6) | 13.5 (56.3) | 19.0 (66.2) | 20.5 (68.9) | 20.0 (68.0) | 12.0 (53.6) | 5.3 (41.5) | −1.0 (30.2) | 0.0 (32.0) | −2.0 (28.4) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 54.9 (2.16) | 35.4 (1.39) | 36.2 (1.43) | 22.6 (0.89) | 2.0 (0.08) | 0.1 (0.00) | 0.5 (0.02) | 0.1 (0.00) | 0.0 (0.0) | 8.3 (0.33) | 39.4 (1.55) | 62.5 (2.46) | 262 (10.31) |
| Average rainy days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 6.1 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 6.0 | 27.2 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 72 | 59 | 49 | 38 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 28 | 29 | 35 | 51 | 69 | 41 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 179.3 | 195.9 | 225.5 | 232.5 | 289.2 | 337.1 | 326.6 | 327.5 | 297.8 | 274.8 | 213.6 | 184.1 | 3,083.9 |
| Source: Iran Meteorological Organization (records),[8] (temperatures),[9] (precipitation),[10] (humidity),[11] (days with precipitation),[12] (sunshine)[13] | |||||||||||||
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