Climate and average weather in Jamjamāl

In Jamjamāl, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: late March to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jamjamāl typically varies from 3°C to 41°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 45°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Jamjamāl for warm-weather activities are from late March to mid May and mid October to late November.

Hottest
Jul
41°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
103 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
575 mm
65 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
705 m
35.5°N
Clearest
Aug
5% cloud

Jamjamāl is city.

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

Jamjamāl 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 late March to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 30 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Jamjamāl is July, with an average high of 41°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 25 to March 12, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Jamjamāl is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan123
Feb144
Mar187
Apr2412
May3117
Jun3722
Jul4126
Aug4125
Sep3620
Oct2915
Nov209
Dec145

How hot and cold Jamjamāl 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, Jamjamāl feels like about 42°C (around July 25). About 138 days a year carry some heat stress, and 68 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -0°C (around January 22), with roughly 13 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan121203
Feb131424
Mar181867
Apr24241212
May30311717
Jun37372222
Jul41412626
Aug41412525
Sep36362020
Oct29291515
Nov202089
Dec141435

Average hourly temperature in Jamjamāl

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 July afternoons, near 41°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Jamjamāl weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan12° / 10310.819.93.1
Feb14° / 9510.70.810.73.9
Mar18° / 9210.30.111.75.9
Apr24° / 12°658.2012.97.3
May31° / 17°214.2013.85.7
Jun37° / 22°10.4014.41.9
Jul41° / 26°00014.20.0
Aug41° / 25°00.1013.30.0
Sep36° / 20°10.5012.22.5
Oct29° / 15°353.2011.16.5
Nov20° / 686.8010.17.0
Dec14° / 949.40.29.64.3

Chance of rain

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

Jamjamāl gets about 575 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.4 months, from around Oct 27 to May 10, peaking in February at about 38% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 1.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 103 mm over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetFeb 2 · 38%Jul 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3411
Feb3711
Mar3410
Apr288
May134
Jun20
Jul00
Aug00
Sep11
Oct113
Nov237
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jamjamāl collects about 575 mm of rain across 65 wet days — roughly 48 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 103 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 51% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec103959265211001356894
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan103111
Feb95111
Mar92100
Apr6580
May2140
Jun100
Jul000
Aug000
Sep110
Oct3530
Nov6870
Dec9490

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Jamjamāl, 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 12 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around October 21. 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 22 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around May 11. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 44% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 23 · 100%Jan 27 · 55%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb5941
Mar6040
Apr6634
May8119
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8218
Nov6931
Dec5842

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 11, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.97:155:05
Feb10.76:555:35
Mar11.76:196:02
Apr12.95:346:28
May13.85:016:53
Jun14.44:497:13
Jul14.25:017:12
Aug13.35:246:45
Sep12.25:486:02
Oct11.16:135:18
Nov10.16:434:49
Dec9.67:094:45

Sunny days

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

Jamjamāl averages about 20 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.1 months, from around May 18 to Oct 18. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 13 sunny days — about 56% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2930 daysJan 3011 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr15Mixed
May20Bright
Jun28Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct22Bright
Nov16Bright
Dec14Mixed

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 Jamjamāl, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in March, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr973
May946
Jun991
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct973
Nov982
Dec1000

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.

Wind in Jamjamāl is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJun 19 · 10 km/hDec 5 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Jamjamāl

In seasonPeak

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

Jamjamāl's rainy season runs November–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Jamjamāl sees seasonal dust haze (April–May), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Jamjamāl

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Jamjamāl 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 Jamjamāl for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to mid May and again from mid October to late November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 31 · 7.7

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
Jan3.2poor
Feb3.9fair
Mar5.9good
Apr7.2good
May5.6good
Jun2.0poor
Jul0.1poor
Aug0.1poor
Sep2.5poor
Oct6.4good
Nov6.9good
Dec4.3fair

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 Jamjamāl for hot-weather activities run from late April to early June and again from late September to late October, with a peak score in the second week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 12 · 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 Jamjamāl, 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 July (highs near 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 12°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Jamjamāl sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Jamjamāl 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 Jamjamāl peaks around June 17 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 12 at about 2 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highVery highModerateJun 17UV 10Jan 12UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5Moderate
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Jamjamāl

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 6 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
Feb30
Mar40
Apr6.50.5
May84.5
Jun8.56
Jul85
Aug85
Sep74
Oct50
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Jamjamāl 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 Jamjamāl is worst in March — around 45 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 2345 µg/m³Nov 2332 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan34Moderate
Feb37Poor
Mar45Poor
Apr45Poor
May44Poor
Jun40Poor
Jul38Poor
Aug37Poor
Sep36Poor
Oct36Poor
Nov32Moderate
Dec32Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Jamjamāl is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 22 to December 13 (295 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2290%Dec 1390%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7731
Feb8522
Mar980
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov990
Dec8821

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. Jamjamāl banks about 3,819 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb1
Mar82
Apr232
May422
Jun586
Jul718
Aug708
Sep551
Oct383
Nov132
Dec4

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.

Jamjamāl receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 27 to Sep 30. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 68% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 268.0 kWhDec 182.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.7Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.9Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May7.3Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct4.5Bright
Nov3.2Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Jamjamāl?

Jamjamāl sits at 35.5°N, 44.8°E, 705 m above sea level, in Iraq. The nearest listed city is Shūrash, 2.0 km away.

Tāzah KhūrmātūSulaymaniyahKoysinceqŢūz KhūrmātūQeładizêHajiawa

Topography around Jamjamāl

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jamjamāl has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 148 m around an average of 718 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 566 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,426 m.

The land around Jamjamāl is covered by cropland (42%) and artificial surfaces (34%) within 3 km, grassland (53%) and cropland (37%) within 16 km, and grassland (57%) and cropland (30%) within 80 km.

3 km
148 m
16 km
566 m
80 km
2,426 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Shūrash 2.0 km · Kirkuk 41 km · Tāzah Khūrmātū 53 km · Sulaymaniyah 54 km · Koysinceq 64 km · Ţūz Khūrmātū 74 km · Qeładizê 77 km · Hajiawa 78 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 Jamjamāl (35.5336°, 44.8343°, elevation 705 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).