Climate averages 1991–2020
Sīnah weather
in July.
A very hot, very dry month: the warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a very hot month in Sīnah: daytime highs average 39.4°C and nights cool to about 22.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical July (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 25 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dihok (8 km away). In July its highs average 39.3°C, about as warm as Sīnah, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Sīnah ranks joint 50th of 59 for the warmest July highs and joint 54th of 59 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 59 cities is 43.4°C; Sīnah is 4.0°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 38.9°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 mm.
The annual picture
July 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 | 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Dihok in JulyIraq · 8 kmHigh 39.3°C · Low 23.1°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Simele in JulyIraq · 18 kmHigh 39.4°C · Low 23.0°C · 0.3 mm rain
- Sumayl in JulyIraq · 18 kmHigh 39.7°C · Low 23.4°C · 0.3 mm rain
- Zaxo in JulyIraq · 49 kmHigh 39.4°C · Low 22.4°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in JulyIraq · 53 kmHigh 42.6°C · Low 27.2°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Silopi in JulyTurkey · 70 kmHigh 39.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 0.3 mm rain
- 'Ākra in JulyIraq · 75 kmHigh 39.0°C · Low 23.3°C · 0.4 mm rain
- Xebat in JulyIraq · 82 kmHigh 41.9°C · Low 26.4°C · 0.1 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.