Astara has cool, wet winters and very warm, highly humid summers, nevertheless with lower precipitation.

As the demand for television broadcasting and telecommunication grew in the early 1980s, the Astara TV Tower was built.

The television tower was uniquely designed, as its pinnacle is guyed to a horizontal cross-like steel structure.

[6] Astara is currently served by a broad gauge railway only headed north.

A standard gauge connection to the Iranian railway network along the shore of the Caspian Sea is planned.