Climate averages 1991–2020
Khāliş weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the joint 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 Khāliş: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baqubah (9 km away). In March its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Khāliş, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Khāliş ranks joint 30th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 35th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 22.3°C; Khāliş is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.7°C to 30.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 17 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
Khāliş climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.8°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 35 | 5.8 | 10.210 h |
| February | 18.4°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 27 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| March, selected | 23.9°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 30 | 4.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 17 | 2.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 37.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 5.1 | 1.4 | 13.914 h |
| June | 42.3°C28.7°C | 28.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.414 h |
| July | 44.8°C31.4°C | 31.4°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.214 h |
| August | 44.8°C31.1°C | 31.1°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 40.7°C26.8°C | 26.8°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 34.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 12 | 1.8 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.6°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 30 | 3.8 | 10.410 h |
| December | 17.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 33 | 5.1 | 10.010 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
- Baqubah in MarchIraq · 9 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 11.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Al Miqdādīyah in MarchIraq · 42 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 11.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Sadr City in MarchIraq · 47 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 11.5°C · 27 mm rain
- Baghdad in MarchIraq · 53 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 11.9°C · 22 mm rain
- Abū Ghurayb in MarchIraq · 65 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 12.0°C · 19 mm rain
- Sāmarrā’ in MarchIraq · 74 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 10.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Al Maḩmūdīyah in MarchIraq · 84 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 12.2°C · 17 mm rain
- Al Fallūjah in MarchIraq · 86 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 11.8°C · 15 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 Khāliş) is explained once on the Khāliş year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Baqubah lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.