General Information
Yasuj is a city in and the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province in Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 96,786, in 20,297 families. Yasuj is an industrial city in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran. The term "Yasuj" is also used to refer to the entire region.
Yasuj has both a sugar processing plant and a coal-burning powerplant that generates electricity for the area. The people of Yasuj speak Luri Language.
Get in and around
Air travel is available from/to Tehran and Mashhad.
Shared taxis from Shiraz leave when they are full. The road is beautiful, and rewards you with excellent views of the Zagros range on clear days. You can use taxi, however the easiest way to travel is via a hired car and its not expencive.
There are plenty of scheduled bus services from some major cities.
Top sights & Things to do
When to visit?
The most popular time to visit is during the spring and autumn. Yasuj has the typical continentally-influenced Mediterranean climate of western Iran, though because of its location in the direct line of rain-bearing winds from the Persian Gulf it is the wettest Iranian city south of the Alborz Mountains with an annual rainfall nine times that of Isfahan and twice that of Kermanshah. At an average temperature of 27.4 °C, July is the hottest month of the year. The lowest average temperatures in the year occur in January, when it is around 2.6 °C.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| High/Low temperatures |
8°
-2°
|
11°
0°
|
16°
3°
|
20°
8°
|
27°
11°
|
32°
16°
|
35°
19°
|
35°
18°
|
31°
13°
|
25°
9°
|
16°
4°
|
11°
0°
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chance of precipitation |
23%
|
27%
|
15%
|
17%
|
2%
|
0%
|
1%
|
1%
|
1%
|
2%
|
13%
|
18%
|
