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Saydabad

This article is about the city in Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan. For other uses, see Saidabad (disambiguation).

Saydābād (Pashto: سيد اباد) is a city in Maidan Wardak Province, central Afghanistan. It is the administrative center of Saydabad District with the main government offices for the district located there. It is located along the main Kabul-Kandahar Highway.

The city of Saydabad has a population of 7,301.[1] It is located within the heartland of the Wardak tribe of Pashtuns.[2]: 10 

Geography

Saydabad is located about 2,155 m above sea level.

Climate

Saydabad has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dsb)

Climate data for Markaz-e Sayyidābād
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Daily mean °C (°F) −4.1
(24.6) 		−2.4
(27.7) 		3.0
(37.4) 		8.1
(46.6) 		12.5
(54.5) 		17.2
(63.0) 		19.2
(66.6) 		18.5
(65.3) 		15.0
(59.0) 		9.7
(49.5) 		3.3
(37.9) 		−1.7
(28.9) 		8.2
(46.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 54.8
(2.16) 		83.4
(3.28) 		84.1
(3.31) 		78.9
(3.11) 		46.3
(1.82) 		17.9
(0.70) 		28.8
(1.13) 		25.5
(1.00) 		14.1
(0.56) 		18.0
(0.71) 		23.7
(0.93) 		28.6
(1.13) 		504.1
(19.84)
Source: ClimateCharts.net[3]

Demographics

A majority of the population is Pashtun. Pashto of the Wardagi accent is spoken in the town.

References

  1. ^ "Markaz-e Sayyidabad, Afghanistan". Falling Rain.
  2. ^ Coyle, Dennis Walter (2014). Placing Wardak Among Pashto Varieties (Master's thesis). University of North Dakota.
  3. ^ "ClimateCharts.net, Laura Zepner, Pierre Karrasch, Felix Wiemann & Lars Bernard (2020) ClimateCharts.net – an interactive climate analysis web platform, International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2020.1829112". Retrieved 18 September 2022.