Climate averages 1991–2020

Sumayl weather
in April.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 21.9°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 9.2°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 58 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sumayl · average highYear overview

April is a mild month in Sumayl: daytime highs average 21.9°C and nights cool to about 9.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 07 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Simele (0 km away). In April its highs average 21.8°C, about as warm as Sumayl, with 58 mm of rain.

Among the 59 cities listed in Iraq, Sumayl ranks 49th of 59 for the warmest April highs and joint 48th of 59 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 59 cities is 28.6°C; Sumayl is 6.7°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 6.6°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 25 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530354045 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sumayl climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sumayl, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 10.1°C0.6°C0.6°C8310.19.910 h
February 11.9°C1.3°C1.3°C7510.010.811 h
March 16.3°C4.6°C4.6°C8210.111.912 h
April, selected 21.9°C9.2°C9.2°C588.613.113 h
May 28.4°C14.3°C14.3°C254.214.114 h
June 35.5°C19.7°C19.7°C1.20.414.615 h
July 39.7°C23.4°C23.4°C0.30.114.414 h
August 39.2°C23.0°C23.0°C0.20.013.614 h
September 34.2°C18.6°C18.6°C1.00.312.512 h
October 27.1°C13.7°C13.7°C243.311.311 h
November 17.8°C6.8°C6.8°C526.210.210 h
December 12.0°C2.4°C2.4°C758.89.710 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Sumayl

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sumayl) is explained once on the Sumayl year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Simele lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.