Climate averages 1991–2020
Ash Shaţrah weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Ash Shaţrah: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 13.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nasiriyah (40 km away). In March its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Ash Shaţrah, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Ash Shaţrah ranks 7th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 13th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 22.3°C; Ash Shaţrah is 4.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.5°C to 33.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 17 mm to 14 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Ash Shaţrah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 26 | 4.2 | 10.410 h |
| February | 20.8°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 16 | 2.8 | 11.111 h |
| March, selected | 26.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 17 | 2.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 33.0°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 14 | 2.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 39.6°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 3.6 | 0.6 | 13.714 h |
| June | 44.2°C29.9°C | 29.9°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.214 h |
| July | 46.2°C32.1°C | 32.1°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| August | 46.3°C31.8°C | 31.8°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 42.6°C27.6°C | 27.6°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 35.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 5.1 | 0.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 25.4°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 25 | 3.2 | 10.611 h |
| December | 19.3°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 23 | 4.0 | 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
March in nearby cities
- Nasiriyah in MarchIraq · 40 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 13.3°C · 15 mm rain
- Qal‘at Sukkar in MarchIraq · 51 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 13.0°C · 18 mm rain
- As Samawah in MarchIraq · 84 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 12.9°C · 11 mm rain
- Al Ḩayy in MarchIraq · 86 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 13.0°C · 23 mm rain
- Al ‘Amārah in MarchIraq · 104 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 12.9°C · 27 mm rain
- Al Madīnah in MarchIraq · 116 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 21 mm rain
- Al-Kut in MarchIraq · 127 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 12.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Al Qurnah in MarchIraq · 128 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 13.5°C · 23 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 Ash Shaţrah) is explained once on the Ash Shaţrah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.