Climate averages 1991–2020
Qeładizê weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Qeładizê: daytime highs average 21.4°C and nights cool to about 9.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 05 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rānyah (24 km away). In April its highs average 21.5°C, about as warm as Qeładizê, with 96 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Qeładizê ranks 55th of 59 for the warmest April highs and 58th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 28.6°C; Qeładizê is 7.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.5°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 113 mm to 46 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Qeładizê climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 155 | 12.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 10.1°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 161 | 12.3 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.4°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 157 | 13.8 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 21.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 113 | 12.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 27.9°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 46 | 7.3 | 14.114 h |
| June | 35.0°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 3.6 | 1.1 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.2°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 1.0 | 0.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 39.2°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 34.3°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 2.1 | 0.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.1°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 39 | 4.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.3°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 94 | 8.8 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.0°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 133 | 10.4 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Rānyah in AprilIraq · 24 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 9.5°C · 96 mm rain
- Hajiawa in AprilIraq · 31 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Piranshahr in AprilIran · 58 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 5.4°C · 95 mm rain
- Bāneh in AprilIran · 71 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 5.1°C · 95 mm rain
- Sulaymaniyah in AprilIraq · 74 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 8.0°C · 88 mm rain
- Soran in AprilIraq · 74 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 7.8°C · 132 mm rain
- Mahābād in AprilIran · 83 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 5.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Khasnahzān in AprilIraq · 89 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 9.0°C · 89 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 Qeładizê) is explained once on the Qeładizê year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.