Ghurghuri
Ghurghuri
غرغری Ghorghori | |
|---|---|
Town | |
Ghurghuri Location | |
| Coordinates: 31°26′51″N 62°37′50″E / 31.44750°N 62.63056°E | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province | Nimruz |
| District | Khashrod |
| Elevation | 553 m (1,814 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+04:30 (Afghanistan Time) |
Ghurghuri (Dari/Pashto: غرغری),[1] sometimes written as Ghorghori (Balochi: غورغوري) or Ghor Ghori, is a town that serves as the capital of Khashrod District of Nimruz Province in southwestern Afghanistan.
History
Ghorghori is a historical place northwest of Khash village in Khashrod District, which in historical sources was (قرنین) Qornain or Qor Qor, which in the local dialect of Persian language is pronounced as Ghornain or Ghor Ghori Qornain.
Ya'qub Lays the founder of the Saffarid dynasty of Sistan, with its capital at Zaranj, was born in 840, of eastern Iranian origins,[2] in a small town called Qornain (From Arabic), which was located east of Zaranj and west of Bost, near Khash village in what is now Afghanistan.
Climate
Ghorghori has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh), characterised by little precipitation and high variation between summer and winter temperatures. The average temperature in Khash is 21.4 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 62 mm. July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 34.4 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of 8.0 °C.
| Climate data for Ghorghori | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
18.6 (65.5) |
24.9 (76.8) |
30.9 (87.6) |
36.5 (97.7) |
42.0 (107.6) |
42.7 (108.9) |
41.3 (106.3) |
36.6 (97.9) |
30.8 (87.4) |
23.2 (73.8) |
17.7 (63.9) |
30.1 (86.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 8.0 (46.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
16.8 (62.2) |
22.5 (72.5) |
27.7 (81.9) |
32.8 (91.0) |
34.4 (93.9) |
32.4 (90.3) |
27.0 (80.6) |
21.0 (69.8) |
13.7 (56.7) |
9.1 (48.4) |
21.4 (70.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.7 (33.3) |
3.6 (38.5) |
8.8 (47.8) |
14.1 (57.4) |
19.0 (66.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
26.1 (79.0) |
23.5 (74.3) |
17.5 (63.5) |
11.2 (52.2) |
4.3 (39.7) |
0.5 (32.9) |
12.8 (55.0) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org[3] | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Nimroz Provincial Center to Relocate from Zaranj to Ghurghuri". TOLOnews. 14 September 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
- ^ Baumer 2016, p. 24.
- ^ "Climate: Khash - Climate-Data.org". Retrieved 15 September 2016.
Works cited
- Baumer, Christoph (2016). The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols. Vol. Three. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78453-490-5.