Al-'Alam, Iraq Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 44°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 3°C. A normal year brings 160 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
- 37°C
- Normal low
- 22°C
- Reanalysis high
- 41°Cin 2010
- Reanalysis low
- 16°Cin 2016
- Chance of a wet day
- 1%
- Daylight
- 12 h 03 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 | 15°C | 3°C | 22°C (2010) | -6°C (2016) | 28 mm | 6.2 |
| February | 17°C | 5°C | 26°C (2010) | -5°C (2020) | 25 mm | 5.7 |
| March | 23°C | 9°C | 35°C (2010) | -3°C (1997) | 25 mm | 6.2 |
| April | 29°C | 14°C | 41°C (2008) | 2°C (2004) | 21 mm | 6.0 |
| May | 36°C | 20°C | 46°C (1994) | 12°C (2005) | 6 mm | 3.1 |
| June | 41°C | 25°C | 48°C (1991) | 18°C (1997) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 44°C | 28°C | 51°C (2020) | 20°C (1992) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 44°C | 28°C | 50°C (2003) | 21°C (2000) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 39°C | 24°C | 47°C (2008) | 14°C (1992) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| October | 32°C | 19°C | 41°C (1999) | 8°C (2003) | 9 mm | 3.1 |
| November | 22°C | 11°C | 32°C (2012) | -1°C (1993) | 21 mm | 3.0 |
| December | 16°C | 5°C | 27°C (1998) | -5°C (2004) | 25 mm | 6.2 |
| Year | 30°C | 16°C | 160 mm | 40 |
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.
160 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 Al-'Alam.
Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1°C | 62% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 1°C | 57% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 3°C | 48% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 6°C | 40% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 6°C | 29% | 96% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 5°C | 19% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 6°C | 18% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 7°C | 18% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 5°C | 21% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 5°C | 31% | 96% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 4°C | 48% | 97% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 2°C | 60% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 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 18 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 61 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 July, averaging 18.4 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 20, with 14 h 30 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 19, with 9 h 49 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 Al-'Alam 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 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.