Abū al-Kahṣīb, Iraq Climate
The warmest month is August, with an average high of 47°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 7°C. A normal year brings 119 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 42°C
- Normal low
- 25°C
- Reanalysis high
- 45°Cin 2019
- Reanalysis low
- 21°Cin 1999
- Chance of a wet day
- 0%
- Daylight
- 12 h 04 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19°C | 7°C | 28°C (2010) | -3°C (2008) | 28 mm | 3.1 |
| February | 22°C | 8°C | 33°C (2010) | -2°C (2017) | 11 mm | 2.8 |
| March | 28°C | 13°C | 41°C (2018) | 1°C (1992) | 16 mm | 3.1 |
| April | 34°C | 19°C | 44°C (2002) | 6°C (1997) | 9 mm | 3.0 |
| May | 41°C | 25°C | 49°C (1999) | 17°C (1997) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| June | 46°C | 29°C | 51°C (2010) | 23°C (1997) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 47°C | 31°C | 53°C (2016) | 22°C (1994) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 47°C | 31°C | 51°C (2012) | 25°C (1991) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 44°C | 27°C | 49°C (2018) | 20°C (2016) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| October | 37°C | 22°C | 45°C (2015) | 12°C (2018) | 6 mm | 0.0 |
| November | 27°C | 14°C | 37°C (2006) | 2°C (1992) | 18 mm | 3.0 |
| December | 21°C | 9°C | 29°C (1998) | -3°C (2004) | 22 mm | 3.1 |
| Year | 34°C | 19°C | 119 mm | 18 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
119 mm in a normal year, most in January.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Abū al-Kahṣīb.
The muggiest month is October, when 4 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4°C | 60% | 95% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 3°C | 52% | 97% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 4°C | 42% | 95% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 6°C | 33% | 90% | 8% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 5°C | 21% | 95% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 4°C | 14% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 5°C | 15% | 94% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 6°C | 16% | 93% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 5°C | 18% | 93% | 3% | 3% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 6°C | 30% | 82% | 8% | 6% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 6°C | 45% | 83% | 9% | 6% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 5°C | 58% | 93% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is August, with the sky 22 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is April, at 52 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is June, averaging 20.2 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 16, with 14 h 07 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 16, with 10 h 11 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Abū al-Kahṣīb in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.