 July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 25.4 °C.The coldest month January has an average temperature of 4.5 °C.On 13 November 2007 militants of the "Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi" ("Movement for the Enforcement of Sharia") from neighbouring Swat were reported to have captured Alpuri district headquarters.