Determination of Thermal Comfort Range in Planning Tourism Climate Case: Sistan and Baluchestan

The study of the climatic characteristics of each place plays a special role in its tourism planning. The aim of this study is to determine the range of climatic comfort day or night for tourism planning in Sistan and Baluchestan province in monthly scale. To determine the temperature conditions (warm, comfort, cold), in the range province and in different months, Evanz index has been used in this research. Hence, the climatic data of the maximum and minimum air temperature, relative humidity and also wind speed in monthly scale of six synoptic stations and four climatology stations during statistical period (1997-2008) have been used and their homogenous interpolation method was examined. Then separate day\ night temperature condition tables for different months were prepared and the province environmental climatic comfort maps were drawn. The results showed that in the range province, the daily climatic conditions in the months of June, July, August and September were warm and nightly climatic conditions in November, December, January, February and March were cold. In March, May, October, November, December, January and February during the day and in May, June, July, August, October and November during the night, is comfort in parts of the province according to Evans model.