Climate averages 1991–2020
Sīnah weather
in May.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Sīnah: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 13.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 07 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dihok (8 km away). In May its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Sīnah, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Sīnah ranks 51st of 59 for the warmest May highs and joint 48th of 59 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 59 cities is 35.2°C; Sīnah is 7.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 7.2°C to 35.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 24 mm to 1.3 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Dihok in MayIraq · 8 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 14.1°C · 24 mm rain
- Simele in MayIraq · 18 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 14.2°C · 25 mm rain
- Sumayl in MayIraq · 18 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 14.3°C · 25 mm rain
- Zaxo in MayIraq · 49 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 35 mm rain
- Al Mawşil al Jadīdah in MayIraq · 53 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 17.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Silopi in MayTurkey · 70 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 12.3°C · 33 mm rain
- 'Ākra in MayIraq · 75 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 13.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Xebat in MayIraq · 82 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 16.6°C · 18 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.