Climate averages 1991–2020
Cizre weather
in March.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a mild month in Cizre: daytime highs average 16.4°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 107 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 56 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Silopi (26 km away). In March its highs average 15.6°C, 0.8°C cooler than Cizre, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 138 cities listed in Turkey, Cizre ranks joint 17th of 138 for the warmest March highs and joint 118th of 138 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 138 cities is 12.5°C; Cizre is 3.9°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs rise by 5.4°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 107 mm to 77 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
Cizre climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Silopi in MarchTurkey · 26 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 2.8°C · 105 mm rain
- Zaxo in MarchIraq · 49 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Siirt in MarchTurkey · 70 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 0.4°C · 134 mm rain
- Midyat in MarchTurkey · 75 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.6°C · 106 mm rain
- Sumayl in MarchIraq · 79 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 82 mm rain
- Simele in MarchIraq · 79 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 82 mm rain
- Dihok in MarchIraq · 88 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Al Qāmishlī in MarchSyria · 90 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 5.3°C · 63 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.