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From coral beaches to night markets: news, events, weather and thousands of island businesses, all in one place.
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Kish right now
Readings pushed from the island every twenty minutes. The weather page carries the forecast, the sea, and eighty years of records to compare today against.
28°C
Air temperature
33.2°C
Sea temperature
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Air quality
Measured at 05:00 · Open-Meteo
The island’s two doors
Arriving and leaving
Everybody who comes to Kish arrives through one of these. The next movement each way is read from the airport and ferry boards; each page carries the whole of it.
Kish International Airport
KIH
- Next arrival 11:00 today Tehran
- Next departure 12:00 today Tehran
Today’s board, who flies here, thirty days of traffic, and the notices in force.
Kish Passenger Port
- Next sailing to Kish 07:00 today From Charak to Kish
- Next sailing from Kish 07:00 today From Kish to Charak
Sailings both ways, the crossing, and what the port publishes about itself.
The sky
The sky over Kish
Kish from orbit, today
NASA’s Terra satellite images the whole Persian Gulf daily. This platform cuts the island out of that frame, stamps it and keeps it - so there is an archive going back, not just a picture of today.
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October on Kish: 86 years of days and nights
The archive holds 86 complete October. Over that time the days have changed one way and the nights the other - which is why an average of the two says almost nothing.
- Daytime high
- 0.2° warmer
- Night-time low
- 2.6° warmer
Comparing the last ten years with the first ten, rather than one year with another - a single hot summer at either end would decide the whole answer. The year in progress is left out until its month is complete.
From the island
Where these sit
Reading about Kish
The island written about rather than listed - its geology, its water, its plant life and its history. Eighteen of these were in the archive and unreachable until they were given addresses.
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Geographical location, vegetation and fauna of the island
Hendorabi Island, with an area of 21.95 square kilometers and a coastline length of 30.57 kilometers, is located between Kish Island and Lavan and at a distance of 325 kilometers from Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgan province. This island is an almost flat land without natural features that sl
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Etymology of Harireh
History and etymology of HarirehAfter the earthquake in 366 or 367 AH in Siraf this port lost its importance and people fled to the seashore and most houses were destroyed. As a result, Kish Island gradually gained a new position in trade. Slowly the economic importance of Kish Island increased and
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Vegetation Cover Appearance
Vegetation Cover AppearanceThe geographic location of Kish on Iran's southern coasts is a narrow strip of the world's dry and tropical dryland vegetation. The island's particular geographic-climatic situation, located in the warm shallow waters of the Strait of Hormuz, results in the island's poor v
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Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Kish
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of KishThe current animal husbandry and agriculture of Kish follow the same traditional farming methods as before, even with more limited activity than in past periods. Remains of beds and inactive, scattered fields on Kish all indicate cultivation and gardening (alt
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