Climate averages 1991–2020
Sīnah weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Sīnah: daytime highs average 9.4°C and nights cool to about -0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dihok (8 km away). In January its highs average 10.0°C, 0.6°C warmer than Sīnah, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Sīnah ranks joint 53rd of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 47th of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is 14.5°C; Sīnah is 5.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 11.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 80 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
Sīnah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.4°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 91 | 10.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 80 | 9.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.6°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 87 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.3°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 57 | 8.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.1°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 24 | 4.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 35.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 1.3 | 0.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.4°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 14.414 h |
| August | 38.9°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 33.9°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 26.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 22 | 3.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 17.4°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 55 | 6.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 11.5°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 83 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Dihok in JanuaryIraq · 8 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 0.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Simele in JanuaryIraq · 18 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.5°C · 83 mm rain
- Sumayl in JanuaryIraq · 18 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 0.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Zaxo in JanuaryIraq · 49 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 113 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in JanuaryIraq · 53 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 3.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Silopi in JanuaryTurkey · 70 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low -1.5°C · 105 mm rain
- 'Ākra in JanuaryIraq · 75 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low -0.7°C · 146 mm rain
- Xebat in JanuaryIraq · 82 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 1.7°C · 90 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 Sīnah) is explained once on the Sīnah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Dihok lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.