Climate averages 1991–2020
Al Mawşil al Jadīdah weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Al Mawşil al Jadīdah: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 59 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xebat (51 km away). In January its highs average 12.0°C, about as warm as Al Mawşil al Jadīdah, with 90 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Al Mawşil al Jadīdah ranks 44th of 59 for the warmest January highs and 40th of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; Al Mawşil al Jadīdah is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 62 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 Mawşil al Jadīdah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 71 | 9.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 14.2°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 62 | 8.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 18.9°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 62 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 25.2°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 43 | 6.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 32.4°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 16 | 2.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 39.1°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 14.615 h |
| July | 42.6°C27.2°C | 27.2°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 42.2°C26.9°C | 26.9°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.514 h |
| September | 37.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 29.9°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 20 | 2.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 20.0°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 50 | 6.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 14.0°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 62 | 7.7 | 9.710 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
- Xebat in JanuaryIraq · 51 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Sīnah in JanuaryIraq · 53 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low -0.3°C · 91 mm rain
- Dihok in JanuaryIraq · 60 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 0.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Simele in JanuaryIraq · 63 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.5°C · 83 mm rain
- Sumayl in JanuaryIraq · 63 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 0.6°C · 83 mm rain
- 'Ākra in JanuaryIraq · 82 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -0.7°C · 146 mm rain
- Erbil in JanuaryIraq · 83 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 1.4°C · 102 mm rain
- Baḥarkah in JanuaryIraq · 83 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 1.3°C · 102 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 Mawşil al Jadīdah) is explained once on the Al Mawşil al Jadīdah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.