Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Halabja
Halabja climate by month
Hot-summer Mediterranean · CsaBest Apr · Oct–Nov
Annual mean18°day and night
Seasonal swing27°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation908 mm58 wet days a year
35.18° N, 45.99° EElevation 711 mUTC+3 · Arabian Standard Time
When to goHalabja · weather score
Best timeApr · Oct–Nov
October: high / low28° / 13°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Halabja has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 40° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 10° and lows of 0°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 27°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 908 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (149 mm, 9 wet days) and August the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in August to 30% in January.
Compared with Baghdad, the capital, Halabja is 4.4° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · July
- Coldest nights
- 0° · January
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 1% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 31 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 48 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 | 10° | 12° | 17° | 23° | 29° | 36° | 40° | 40° | 35° | 28° | 19° | 13° |
| Average low | 0° | 0° | 4° | 9° | 14° | 20° | 23° | 22° | 18° | 13° | 6° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 153 mm | 170 mm | 149 mm | 117 mm | 37 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 34 mm | 117 mm | 129 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.7 | 8 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 3.4 | 7.5 | 6.8 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 30% | 29% | 27% | 17% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 14% | 23% | 30% |
| Daylight | 10h 02 | 10h 55 | 11h 55 | 13h 03 | 14h 00 | 14h 31 | 14h 19 | 13h 30 | 12h 26 | 11h 20 | 10h 20 | 9h 48 |
| Month score | 42 | 49 | 71 | 79 | 71 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 57 | 80 | 82 | 56 |
ivMonth by month
Halabja in every month
January42
10° / 0°
153 mm · 7.7 wet days
February49
12° / 0°
170 mm · 8 wet days
March71
17° / 4°
149 mm · 8.8 wet days
April79
23° / 9°
117 mm · 8.8 wet days
May71
29° / 14°
37 mm · 5 wet days
June56
36° / 20°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
July56
40° / 23°
0 mm · 0.7 wet day
August58
40° / 22°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
September57
35° / 18°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
October80
28° / 13°
34 mm · 3.4 wet days
November82
19° / 6°
117 mm · 7.5 wet days
December56
13° / 2°
129 mm · 6.8 wet days