Climate averages 1991–2020
Al Maḩmūdīyah weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Al Maḩmūdīyah: daytime highs average 16.5°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 14 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah (20 km away). In January its highs average 16.4°C, about as warm as Al Maḩmūdīyah, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Al Maḩmūdīyah ranks 21st of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 13th of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; Al Maḩmūdīyah is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 24 mm to 19 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Al Maḩmūdīyah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.5°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 24 | 4.3 | 10.210 h |
| February | 19.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 19 | 3.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 24.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 17 | 2.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.3°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 12 | 2.4 | 13.013 h |
| May | 37.7°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 4.2 | 1.0 | 13.814 h |
| June | 42.4°C28.9°C | 28.9°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.314 h |
| July | 44.7°C31.3°C | 31.3°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August | 44.9°C31.1°C | 31.1°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 41.1°C27.1°C | 27.1°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 34.5°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 6.8 | 1.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 24.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 22 | 3.2 | 10.510 h |
| December | 18.1°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 21 | 3.8 | 10.010 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah in JanuaryIraq · 20 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 5.8°C · 24 mm rain
- Baghdad in JanuaryIraq · 31 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 6.2°C · 28 mm rain
- Abū Ghurayb in JanuaryIraq · 32 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 6.3°C · 25 mm rain
- Al-Musayab in JanuaryIraq · 32 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 6.4°C · 22 mm rain
- Sadr City in JanuaryIraq · 37 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 5.8°C · 32 mm rain
- Aş Şuwayrah in JanuaryIraq · 41 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 6.4°C · 28 mm rain
- Karbala in JanuaryIraq · 59 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.1°C · 20 mm rain
- Al Hindīyah in JanuaryIraq · 59 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 6.3°C · 21 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Al Maḩmūdīyah) is explained once on the Al Maḩmūdīyah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.