Climate averages 1991–2020
Sīnah 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 Sīnah: daytime highs average 15.6°C and nights cool to about 3.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 87 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 Dihok (8 km away). In March its highs average 16.1°C, 0.5°C warmer than Sīnah, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Sīnah ranks 54th of 59 for the warmest March highs and joint 48th of 59 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 59 cities is 22.3°C; Sīnah is 6.7°C cooler than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 21.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 87 mm to 57 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
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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Dihok in MarchIraq · 8 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Simele in MarchIraq · 18 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 82 mm rain
- Sumayl in MarchIraq · 18 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 82 mm rain
- Zaxo in MarchIraq · 49 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in MarchIraq · 53 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 7.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Silopi in MarchTurkey · 70 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 2.8°C · 105 mm rain
- 'Ākra in MarchIraq · 75 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 3.8°C · 143 mm rain
- Xebat in MarchIraq · 82 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 83 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.