Climate averages 1991–2020
Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah weather
in March.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 8th 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 Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah: daytime highs average 24.8°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 8th 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 Al-Musayab (13 km away). In March its highs average 24.9°C, about as warm as Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah ranks joint 24th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 13th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 22.3°C; Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 31.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 17 mm to 12 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
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, selected | 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 | 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
March in nearby cities
- Al-Musayab in MarchIraq · 13 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 12.1°C · 15 mm rain
- Al Maḩmūdīyah in MarchIraq · 20 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 12.2°C · 17 mm rain
- Al Hindīyah in MarchIraq · 40 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 12.3°C · 14 mm rain
- Abu Gharaq in MarchIraq · 40 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 12.6°C · 14 mm rain
- Aş Şuwayrah in MarchIraq · 40 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 12.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Karbala in MarchIraq · 43 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 11.9°C · 13 mm rain
- Al Hillah in MarchIraq · 48 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 12.3°C · 15 mm rain
- Abū Ghurayb in MarchIraq · 49 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 12.0°C · 19 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.