Climate averages 1991–2020
Qeładizê weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Qeładizê: daytime highs average 8.5°C and nights cool to about -1.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 155 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rānyah (24 km away). In January its highs average 8.7°C, about as warm as Qeładizê, with 152 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Qeładizê ranks 58th of 59 for the warmest January highs and 58th of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; Qeładizê is 6.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 10.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 155 mm to 161 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Rānyah in JanuaryIraq · 24 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -0.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Hajiawa in JanuaryIraq · 31 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 158 mm rain
- Piranshahr in JanuaryIran · 58 kmHigh 2.1°C · Low -4.9°C · 84 mm rain
- Bāneh in JanuaryIran · 71 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -5.5°C · 115 mm rain
- Sulaymaniyah in JanuaryIraq · 74 kmHigh 9.0°C · Low -0.8°C · 131 mm rain
- Soran in JanuaryIraq · 74 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -1.3°C · 150 mm rain
- Mahābād in JanuaryIran · 83 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -5.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Khasnahzān in JanuaryIraq · 89 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low -0.1°C · 121 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.