Climate guideThirty-year normals for Hīt
Hīt climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Feb–Mar · Nov
Annual mean23°day and night
Seasonal swing27°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation109 mm24 wet days a year
33.64° N, 42.83° EElevation 61 mUTC+3 · Arabian Standard Time
When to goHīt · weather score
Best timeFeb–Mar · Nov
October: high / low31° / 19°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Hīt has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 43° and nights 29°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 4°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 27°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 109 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (18 mm, 4 wet days) and June the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 0% in July to 26% in December.
Compared with Baghdad, the capital, Hīt is 2.1° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 43° · July
- Coldest nights
- 4° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- June
- Clearest skies
- July · 0% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 22 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 56 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 | 14° | 17° | 22° | 29° | 35° | 40° | 43° | 42° | 38° | 31° | 22° | 15° |
| Average low | 4° | 6° | 10° | 16° | 22° | 26° | 29° | 29° | 25° | 19° | 11° | 6° |
| Precipitation | 18 mm | 19 mm | 16 mm | 11 mm | 4 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 7 mm | 16 mm | 18 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 3 | 3.4 |
| Cloud cover | 23% | 20% | 20% | 21% | 14% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 12% | 19% | 26% |
| Daylight | 10h 09 | 10h 59 | 11h 56 | 13h 00 | 13h 53 | 14h 22 | 14h 11 | 13h 26 | 12h 25 | 11h 23 | 10h 26 | 9h 56 |
| Month score | 70 | 86 | 92 | 75 | 55 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 70 | 93 | 78 |
ivMonth by month
Hīt in every month
January70
14° / 4°
18 mm · 3.9 wet days
February86
17° / 6°
19 mm · 3.7 wet days
March92
22° / 10°
16 mm · 3.3 wet days
April75
29° / 16°
11 mm · 3.5 wet days
May55
35° / 22°
4 mm · 1.3 wet day
June58
40° / 26°
0 mm · 0 wet days
July58
43° / 29°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
August58
42° / 29°
0 mm · 0 wet days
September58
38° / 25°
0 mm · 0.1 wet days
October70
31° / 19°
7 mm · 1.3 wet day
November93
22° / 11°
16 mm · 3 wet days
December78
15° / 6°
18 mm · 3.4 wet days