Climate guideThirty-year normals for Akre
Akre climate by month
Hot-summer Mediterranean · CsaBest Apr–May · Oct
Annual mean16°day and night
Seasonal swing27°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation934 mm65 wet days a year
36.76° N, 43.89° EElevation 754 mUTC+3 · Arabian Standard Time
When to goAkre · weather score
Best timeApr–May · Oct
October: high / low25° / 11°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Akre has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 37° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 7° and lows of -3°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 27°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 934 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. April is the wettest month (125 mm, 10 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in August to 35% in January.
Compared with Baghdad, the capital, Akre is 7.3° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 37° · July
- Coldest nights
- -3° · January
- Wettest month
- April
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- August · 1% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 40 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 7° | 9° | 14° | 20° | 26° | 33° | 37° | 37° | 32° | 25° | 16° | 10° |
| Average low | -3° | -2° | 2° | 7° | 12° | 17° | 21° | 21° | 16° | 11° | 5° | -1° |
| Precipitation | 137 mm | 156 mm | 145 mm | 125 mm | 44 mm | 3 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 51 mm | 131 mm | 139 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.1 | 7.2 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 7.2 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 4.9 | 7.3 | 7.5 |
| Cloud cover | 35% | 35% | 33% | 29% | 18% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 16% | 26% | 33% |
| Daylight | 9h 55 | 10h 51 | 11h 55 | 13h 07 | 14h 07 | 14h 40 | 14h 27 | 13h 36 | 12h 27 | 11h 18 | 10h 14 | 9h 40 |
| Month score | 39 | 39 | 52 | 76 | 78 | 63 | 56 | 56 | 67 | 88 | 73 | 39 |
ivMonth by month
Akre in every month
January39
7° / -3°
137 mm · 7.1 wet days
February39
9° / -2°
156 mm · 7.2 wet days
March52
14° / 2°
145 mm · 9.8 wet days
April76
20° / 7°
125 mm · 10.1 wet days
May78
26° / 12°
44 mm · 7.2 wet days
June63
33° / 17°
3 mm · 1.4 wet day
July56
37° / 21°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
August56
37° / 21°
0 mm · 0.7 wet day
September67
32° / 16°
2 mm · 0.8 wet day
October88
25° / 11°
51 mm · 4.9 wet days
November73
16° / 5°
131 mm · 7.3 wet days
December39
10° / -1°
139 mm · 7.5 wet days