Climate averages 1991–2020
Cizre weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Cizre: daytime highs average 10.0°C and nights cool to about -0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 107 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 54 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Silopi (26 km away). In January its highs average 9.5°C, 0.5°C cooler than Cizre, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Cizre ranks 30th of 138 for the warmest January highs and joint 107th of 138 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 138 cities is 7.4°C; Cizre is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 11.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 107 mm to 99 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
Cizre climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 107 | 10.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 11.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 99 | 10.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.4°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 107 | 11.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.8°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 77 | 9.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.3°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 38 | 6.0 | 14.214 h |
| June | 35.6°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 1.9 | 0.6 | 14.715 h |
| July | 40.1°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.514 h |
| August | 39.7°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 34.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 1.4 | 0.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 27.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 32 | 3.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.2°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 66 | 6.1 | 10.210 h |
| December | 12.1°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 99 | 9.3 | 9.610 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
- Silopi in JanuaryTurkey · 26 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low -1.5°C · 105 mm rain
- Zaxo in JanuaryIraq · 49 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 113 mm rain
- Siirt in JanuaryTurkey · 70 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -3.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Midyat in JanuaryTurkey · 75 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Sumayl in JanuaryIraq · 79 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 0.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Simele in JanuaryIraq · 79 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.5°C · 83 mm rain
- Dihok in JanuaryIraq · 88 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 0.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Al Qāmishlī in JanuarySyria · 90 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 0.9°C · 72 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 Cizre) is explained once on the Cizre year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.