Shinkot ( ps, شين کوټ) (also Pasaband) is a town and the center of Pasaband District, in the southern part of

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. It is located in the western part of the district at at 2,566 m altitude, and is close to the border with Helmand Province.

Climate

Shinkot has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

( Köppen: ''Dsb'') with warm, dry summers and cold, snowy winters.

Climate

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