Climate averages 1991–2020
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah weather
in August.
A very hot, very dry month: the warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a very hot month in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah: daytime highs average 44.7°C and nights cool to about 29.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical August (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al-Musayab (13 km away). In August its highs average 44.7°C, about as warm as Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah ranks joint 26th of 59 for the warmest August highs and joint 19th of 59 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 59 cities is 43.4°C; Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 40.9°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.4°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 24 | 4.3 | 10.210 h |
| February | 19.2°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 19 | 3.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 24.8°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 17 | 2.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.3°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 12 | 2.4 | 13.013 h |
| May | 37.6°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 4.2 | 1.0 | 13.814 h |
| June | 42.3°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.314 h |
| July | 44.6°C30.3°C | 30.3°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August, selected | 44.7°C29.7°C | 29.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 40.9°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 34.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 6.8 | 1.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 24.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 22 | 3.2 | 10.510 h |
| December | 18.0°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 21 | 3.8 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Al-Musayab in AugustIraq · 13 kmHigh 44.7°C · Low 30.3°C · 0 mm rain
- Al Maḩmūdīyah in AugustIraq · 20 kmHigh 44.9°C · Low 31.1°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Al Hindīyah in AugustIraq · 40 kmHigh 44.5°C · Low 30.2°C · 0 mm rain
- Abu Gharaq in AugustIraq · 40 kmHigh 44.6°C · Low 30.7°C · 0 mm rain
- Aş Şuwayrah in AugustIraq · 40 kmHigh 45.5°C · Low 31.0°C · 0 mm rain
- Karbala in AugustIraq · 43 kmHigh 43.7°C · Low 29.4°C · 0 mm rain
- Al Hillah in AugustIraq · 48 kmHigh 44.9°C · Low 30.5°C · 0 mm rain
- Abū Ghurayb in AugustIraq · 49 kmHigh 44.4°C · Low 30.7°C · 0.1 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 Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah) is explained once on the Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Al Maḩmūdīyah lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.