Saqqez topographic map

Name: Saqqez topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Saqqez, بخش مرکزی شهرستان سقز, Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran (36.21892 46.24180 36.26621 46.30742)

Average elevation: 5,010 ft

Minimum elevation: 4,751 ft

Maximum elevation: 6,211 ft

At an altitude of 1,476 metres (4,842 feet), Saqqez has a Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dsa) with hot, very dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Summers feature large diurnal temperature variation due to decreased air density at high altitude and low humidity. In 1969 Saqqez recorded a temperature of −36 °C (−33 °F), the lowest ever recorded by an Iranian weather station until Kheirabad Zanjan recorded −36.4 °C (−33.5 °F) on January 29, 1997.[13][14] Saqqez again reached −36 °C during the February 3–9 1972 Iran blizzard.