Evaluating The Climatic Potentials of Kerman Province for Tourism Industry

In order to evaluate the climatic potentials of Kerman province, the hourly weather data of temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed of the nine synoptic stations of the province were obtained for the existing data period( ranging from as early as 1957 to as late as 1993 up to 2005 to 2007). The hourly human comfort index of Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) was computed for each calendar month using the RAYMAN software. In the second step, the beginning, duration, and the end of the comfort period were determined for each station.
The results showed that the comfort period begins in January in the south and delays until March in the north. But it begins as late as April in the mountainous region of Baft. The comfort period ends in December in most of the province. The most uncomfortable climatic factor in the province is the temperature. That is why that the comfort period is shorter in the south than in the north. The length of the comfort period ranges from7 moths in the south to about 10 months in the north.