Climate averages 1991–2020

Khasnahzān weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 10.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -0.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 121 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Khasnahzān: daytime highs average 10.2°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 121 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (one of the wettest months 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 Erbil (12 km away). In January its highs average 11.6°C, 1.4°C warmer than Khasnahzān, with 102 mm of rain.

Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Khasnahzān ranks joint 48th of 59 for the warmest January highs and 53rd of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; Khasnahzān is 4.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 11.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 121 mm to 117 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Khasnahzān climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Khasnahzān, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	10.2°C-0.1°C	-0.1°C	121	11.9	10.010 h
February	11.9°C0.8°C	0.8°C	117	11.9	10.811 h
March	16.3°C4.3°C	4.3°C	121	12.3	11.912 h
April	22.2°C9.0°C	9.0°C	89	10.6	13.113 h
May	29.1°C14.4°C	14.4°C	39	6.9	14.114 h
June	36.1°C20.1°C	20.1°C	2.3	0.9	14.615 h
July	40.0°C24.2°C	24.2°C	0.7	0.3	14.414 h
August	39.8°C23.7°C	23.7°C	0.4	0.2	13.514 h
September	34.8°C19.0°C	19.0°C	2.0	0.7	12.412 h
October	27.8°C13.9°C	13.9°C	38	4.6	11.311 h
November	18.2°C6.3°C	6.3°C	80	7.9	10.310 h
December	12.3°C1.8°C	1.8°C	106	9.9	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

Distance from Khasnahzān

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Khasnahzān) is explained once on the Khasnahzān year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.