Climate averages 1991–2020
Dihok weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Dihok: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 41 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sīnah (8 km away). In December its highs average 11.5°C, 0.7°C cooler than Dihok, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Dihok ranks joint 49th of 59 for the warmest December highs and joint 47th of 59 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 59 cities is 16.3°C; Dihok is 4.2°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 10.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 91 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Dihok climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.0°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 91 | 10.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.7°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 80 | 9.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 87 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.6°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 57 | 8.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 24 | 4.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 35.1°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 1.3 | 0.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.3°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 14.414 h |
| August | 39.0°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 34.0°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 27.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 22 | 3.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.9°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 55 | 6.3 | 10.210 h |
| December, selected | 12.2°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 83 | 8.8 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Sīnah in DecemberIraq · 8 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 1.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Simele in DecemberIraq · 12 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 2.3°C · 75 mm rain
- Sumayl in DecemberIraq · 12 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 2.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Zaxo in DecemberIraq · 41 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 1.4°C · 105 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in DecemberIraq · 60 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 5.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Silopi in DecemberTurkey · 63 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 0.3°C · 98 mm rain
- 'Ākra in DecemberIraq · 81 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.3°C · 134 mm rain
- Cizre in DecemberTurkey · 88 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 99 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 Dihok) is explained once on the Dihok year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sīnah lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.