Sanandaj Travel Guide

Travel Guide to Sanandaj

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General Information

Sanandaj is a city in kurdistan and it's the capital of Kurdistan Province in Iran. Sanandaj is the thirty-ninth largest city in Iran. Sanandaj is not old and was founded about 200 years ago, yet under its short existence it has grown to become a center of Kurdish culture.

Based on Wikipedia, the population of Sanandaj is mainly Kurdish. The city also had an Armenian minority who gradually emigrated from the city. Until the Iranian Revolution (1979), the city had a small Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of about 4,000 people. The city boasted a sizable Assyrian community that spoke a unique dialect of Aramaic called Senaya. The economy of Sanandaj is based upon the production of carpets, processed hides and skins, milled rice, refined sugar, woodworking, cotton weaving, metalware and cutlery.

The Ardalani dialect of Kurdish is spoken in Sanandaj and its surroundings. Ardalani dialect is distinct to Kurdistan province and is spoken in Sanandaj and other cities of Kurdistan province. The other important dialect of Sorani Kurdish is Mokriani which is spoken in Mokrian region in the cities of Piranshahr and Mahabad in West Azerbaijan province.

Get in and around

There are 5 daily flights from/to Tehran. And 2 weekly flights from Sanandaj to Erbil (Kurdistan of Iraq) and also monthly flights to Antalia (Turkey).

Freeway Tehran, Sanandaj There are many Shared taxis to Tehran.

There are more than 50 buses from/to Tehran, Kermanshah, Tabriz , Hamedan and other Iranian cities daily. Also there are buses to Istanbul.

Tehran-Sanandaj railway is under construction...

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Top sights & Things to do

When to visit?

The best time to visit Sanandaj will be when the average temperatures are at a comfortable level (between 20°C  and 30°C on average) which is during months June, July, August and September. Other great months to visit Sanandaj are April, May and October when the average temperatures are a little cooler but still between a pleasant 10°C and 20°C. The least amount of rainfall occurs in September. The average in this month is 0 mm. The greatest amount of precipitation occurs in April, with an average of 96 mm. The variation in the precipitation between the driest and wettest months is 96 mm. The variation in temperatures throughout the year is 26.6 °C.

  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
High/Low temperatures
-5°
-4°
14°
20°
25°
32°
13°
37°
18°
36°
17°
31°
11°
24°
14°
-3°
Chance of precipitation
14%
17%
18%
21%
10%
2%
1%
0%
2%
6%
15%
14%
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