Climate averages 1991–2020
Simele weather
in February.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the joint 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cool month in Simele: daytime highs average 11.9°C and nights cool to about 1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes February a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 49 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sumayl (0 km away). In February its highs average 11.9°C, about as warm as Simele, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Simele ranks joint 48th of 59 for the warmest February highs and joint 43rd of 59 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 59 cities is 17.0°C; Simele is 5.1°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 16.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 75 mm to 82 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Sumayl in FebruaryIraq · 0 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 75 mm rain
- Dihok in FebruaryIraq · 12 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 1.1°C · 80 mm rain
- Sīnah in FebruaryIraq · 18 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 80 mm rain
- Zaxo in FebruaryIraq · 35 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 0.5°C · 109 mm rain
- Silopi in FebruaryTurkey · 55 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low -0.7°C · 99 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in FebruaryIraq · 63 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 4.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Cizre in FebruaryTurkey · 79 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 0.4°C · 99 mm rain
- 'Ākra in FebruaryIraq · 93 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 0.2°C · 137 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.