Climate averages 1991–2020
Erbil weather
in January.
A cool, 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 Erbil: daytime highs average 11.6°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 102 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Khasnahzān (12 km away). In January its highs average 10.2°C, 1.4°C cooler than Erbil, with 121 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Erbil ranks 46th of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 50th of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; Erbil is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 13.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 102 mm to 94 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
Erbil climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 102 | 10.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 13.3°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 94 | 10.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.7°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 93 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.7°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 62 | 7.7 | 13.113 h |
| May | 30.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 22 | 4.6 | 14.114 h |
| June | 37.6°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 1.2 | 0.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 41.5°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 41.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 36.3°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 29.2°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 26 | 3.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.6°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 64 | 6.6 | 10.310 h |
| December | 13.6°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 87 | 8.4 | 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
- Khasnahzān in JanuaryIraq · 12 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low -0.1°C · 121 mm rain
- Baḥarkah in JanuaryIraq · 14 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 1.3°C · 102 mm rain
- Xebat in JanuaryIraq · 32 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 90 mm rain
- 'Ākra in JanuaryIraq · 61 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -0.7°C · 146 mm rain
- Soran in JanuaryIraq · 70 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -1.3°C · 150 mm rain
- Hajiawa in JanuaryIraq · 71 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 158 mm rain
- Rānyah in JanuaryIraq · 79 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -0.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in JanuaryIraq · 83 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.2°C · 71 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 Erbil) is explained once on the Erbil year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Baḥarkah lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.