Climate averages 1991–2020
Simele weather
in March.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Simele: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sumayl (0 km away). In March its highs average 16.3°C, about as warm as Simele, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Simele ranks joint 48th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 45th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 22.3°C; Simele is 5.9°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.5°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 82 mm to 58 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
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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Sumayl in MarchIraq · 0 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 82 mm rain
- Dihok in MarchIraq · 12 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Sīnah in MarchIraq · 18 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 3.6°C · 87 mm rain
- Zaxo in MarchIraq · 35 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Silopi in MarchTurkey · 55 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 2.8°C · 105 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in MarchIraq · 63 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 7.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Cizre in MarchTurkey · 79 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 4.0°C · 107 mm rain
- 'Ākra in MarchIraq · 93 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 143 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.