Climate averages 1991–2020
Simele weather
in April.
A mild, moderately 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 Simele: daytime highs average 21.8°C and nights cool to about 9.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 07 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sumayl (0 km away). In April its highs average 21.9°C, about as warm as Simele, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Simele ranks 50th of 59 for the warmest April highs and joint 48th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 28.6°C; Simele is 6.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.4°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 25 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
Simele climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 83 | 10.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.9°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 75 | 10.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.3°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 82 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 21.8°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 58 | 8.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.3°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 25 | 4.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 35.2°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 1.2 | 0.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 39.1°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 34.1°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 1.0 | 0.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 27.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 24 | 3.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.0°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 52 | 6.2 | 10.210 h |
| December | 12.2°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 75 | 8.8 | 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
- Sumayl in AprilIraq · 0 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 9.2°C · 58 mm rain
- Dihok in AprilIraq · 12 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 9.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Sīnah in AprilIraq · 18 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 8.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Zaxo in AprilIraq · 35 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 8.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Silopi in AprilTurkey · 55 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 7.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in AprilIraq · 63 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 12.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Cizre in AprilTurkey · 79 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 8.6°C · 77 mm rain
- 'Ākra in AprilIraq · 93 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 8.4°C · 101 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 Simele) is explained once on the Simele year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Sumayl lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.