Shiraz
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📷 آرش (Arche)· CC BY-SA 3.0شیراز است و بس! | Shiraz it is, and that's enough!
About
Shiraz is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, which is historically known by the exonym Persia proper. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 people, and its built-up area with Sadra was home to almost 1,800,000 inhabitants.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Shiraz, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Shiraz
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
33° / 13°
UV Very high
Sat
Overcast
31° / 14°
UV High
Sun
Partly cloudy
27° / 14°
UV Very high
Mon
Clear
27° / 10°
UV Very high
Tue
Partly cloudy
29° / 12°
UV Very high
Wed
Clear
29° / 14°
UV Very high
Thu
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
38° / 4°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.6h
05:07 – 18:44local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Shiraz
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib International Airport (SYZ) at 9 km.
Getting around Shiraz
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.