Climate and average weather in Ad Dujayl

In Ad Dujayl, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early February to early April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ad Dujayl typically varies from 7°C to 45°C, and is rarely below 2°C or above 49°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ad Dujayl for warm-weather activities are from early February to early April and early November to late December.

Hottest
Aug
45°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
32 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
167 mm
27 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
46 m
33.8°N
Clearest
Jul
2% cloud

Ad Dujayl is human settlement.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Ad Dujayl weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early February to early April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Ad Dujayl, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.5 months, from May 19 to October 1, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Ad Dujayl is August, with an average high of 45°C and low of 31°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 25 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in Ad Dujayl is January, with an average low of 7°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan177
Feb199
Mar2513
Apr3118
May3824
Jun4329
Jul4531
Aug4531
Sep4127
Oct3421
Nov2514
Dec189

How hot and cold Ad Dujayl really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Ad Dujayl feels like about 45°C (around July 23). About 187 days a year carry some heat stress, and 128 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan171757
Feb191979
Mar25251313
Apr31311818
May37382424
Jun43432929
Jul45453131
Aug45453131
Sep41412727
Oct34342121
Nov25251414
Dec181879

Average hourly temperature in Ad Dujayl

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 45°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Ad Dujayl weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan17° / 325.3106.2
Feb19° / 254.110.77.3
Mar25° / 13°253.811.78.3
Apr31° / 18°152.812.85.6
May38° / 24°4113.71.6
Jun43° / 29°0014.20.0
Jul45° / 31°00140.0
Aug45° / 31°0013.30.0
Sep41° / 27°00.112.20.2
Oct34° / 21°111.711.13.6
Nov25° / 14°253.410.28.1
Dec18° / 294.69.87.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Ad Dujayl gets about 167 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.4 months, from around Oct 21 to May 3, peaking in January at about 18% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 6.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 32 mm over about 5 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainJan 25 · 18%Jun 6 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb154
Mar124
Apr103
May31
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct62
Nov123
Dec155

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ad Dujayl collects about 167 mm of rain across 27 wet days — roughly 14 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 32 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec322525154000112529
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan325
Feb254
Mar254
Apr153
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct112
Nov253
Dec295

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Ad Dujayl, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 14 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 15. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 16 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 13. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 30% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 15 · 100%Dec 18 · 69%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb7525
Mar7723
Apr7723
May8614
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8614
Nov7624
Dec7030

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 20, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 19, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:135:12
Feb10.76:555:40
Mar11.76:216:05
Apr12.85:386:29
May13.75:076:52
Jun14.24:567:10
Jul14.05:077:10
Aug13.35:296:45
Sep12.25:516:04
Oct11.16:145:22
Nov10.26:424:55
Dec9.87:064:52

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Ad Dujayl averages about 23 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 17 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around May 17 to Oct 14. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 17 sunny days — about 42% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2330 daysDec 1317 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr19Bright
May23Bright
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct24Brilliant
Nov19Bright
Dec18Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Ad Dujayl, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in October, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan9910
Feb9910
Mar9730
Apr9272
May9442
Jun9730
Jul88120
Aug87121
Sep9640
Oct8884
Nov85114
Dec9820

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Ad Dujayl is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around May 8 to Sep 18. The windiest month is July, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 19 to May 7, with November the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 8 · 16 km/hNov 18 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May12light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep12calm
Oct10calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Ad Dujayl

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Ad Dujayl sees seasonal dust haze (March–September), heaviest in May.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Ad Dujayl

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Ad Dujayl throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid February, Ad Dujayl is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Ad Dujayl for general outdoor tourist activities run from early February to early April and again from early November to late December, with a peak score in the second week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 12 · 8.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan6.2good
Feb7.3good
Mar8.2ideal
Apr5.6good
May1.7poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.2poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov8.0ideal
Dec7.1good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Ad Dujayl for hot-weather activities run from early March to early May and again from mid October to late November, with a peak score in the second week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 8 · 8.4

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Ad Dujayl, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 45°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 17°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ad Dujayl sees daytime highs around 45°C and nights near 31°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ad Dujayl by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Ad Dujayl peaks around June 13 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighVery highModerateJun 13UV 10Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul5Moderate
Aug9Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct5Moderate
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ad Dujayl

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb2.50
Mar4.50
Apr60
May7.54.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul60
Aug7.54.5
Sep5.50
Oct4.50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Ad Dujayl by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Ad Dujayl is worst in December — around 90 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyDec 2189 µg/m³Jul 1665 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan88Unhealthy
Feb85Unhealthy
Mar84Unhealthy
Apr79Unhealthy
May79Unhealthy
Jun68Unhealthy
Jul65Unhealthy
Aug68Unhealthy
Sep72Unhealthy
Oct85Unhealthy
Nov82Unhealthy
Dec90Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ad Dujayl is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan980
Feb990
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec990

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Ad Dujayl banks about 5,655 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan54
Feb111
Mar270
Apr434
May641
Jun768
Jul868
Aug862
Sep716
Oct550
Nov272
Dec108

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Ad Dujayl receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 28. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.8 kWh/m² — roughly 64% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 227.9 kWhDec 192.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.1Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr6.5Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.9Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct4.7Bright
Nov3.5Moderate
Dec2.8Moderate

Where is Ad Dujayl?

Ad Dujayl sits at 33.8°N, 44.2°E, 46 m above sea level, in Iraq. The nearest listed city is Balad, 20 km away.

Sadr CityBaghdadAbū GhuraybAl Miqdādīyah

Topography around Ad Dujayl

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Ad Dujayl.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ad Dujayl has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m around an average of 42 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 22 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 198 m.

The land around Ad Dujayl is covered by cropland (54%) within 3 km, cropland (65%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (43%) and cropland (39%) within 80 km.

3 km
12 m
16 km
22 m
80 km
198 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Balad 20 km · Khāliş 28 km · Baqubah 36 km · Sāmarrā’ 50 km · Sadr City 55 km · Baghdad 58 km · Abū Ghurayb 60 km · Al Miqdādīyah 66 km

Iraq travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / D / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$5,410
2025
Happiness
5.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
60%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
9.5
per 100k, 2013
Road deaths
27.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 406
Religion
Christian 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Ad Dujayl (33.8467°, 44.2344°, elevation 46 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).