Climate averages 1991–2020
An Nu‘mānīyah 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 An Nu‘mānīyah: daytime highs average 16.8°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 16 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al-Kut (38 km away). In January its highs average 16.8°C, about as warm as An Nu‘mānīyah, with 33 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, An Nu‘mānīyah ranks joint 16th of 59 for the warmest January highs and 22nd of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; An Nu‘mānīyah is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 20 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
An Nu‘mānīyah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.8°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 30 | 4.5 | 10.310 h |
| February | 19.7°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 20 | 3.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 25.3°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 22 | 3.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.9°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 16 | 3.3 | 13.013 h |
| May | 38.6°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 7.4 | 0.9 | 13.814 h |
| June | 43.5°C29.0°C | 29.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.314 h |
| July | 45.7°C31.4°C | 31.4°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August | 45.8°C31.1°C | 31.1°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 41.8°C26.9°C | 26.9°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 35.0°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 6.2 | 1.4 | 11.411 h |
| November | 24.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 28 | 3.6 | 10.511 h |
| December | 18.4°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 27 | 4.3 | 10.110 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
- Al-Kut in JanuaryIraq · 38 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 6.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Aş Şuwayrah in JanuaryIraq · 72 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 6.4°C · 28 mm rain
- Al Ḩayy in JanuaryIraq · 73 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 7.1°C · 32 mm rain
- Al-Qāsim in JanuaryIraq · 74 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 6.2°C · 22 mm rain
- Al Diwaniyah in JanuaryIraq · 78 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 6.3°C · 22 mm rain
- Al Hillah in JanuaryIraq · 94 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 6.3°C · 22 mm rain
- Qal‘at Sukkar in JanuaryIraq · 99 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 7.0°C · 26 mm rain
- Abu Gharaq in JanuaryIraq · 100 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 6.6°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 An Nu‘mānīyah) is explained once on the An Nu‘mānīyah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.