Climate and average weather in Tāzah Khūrmātū

In Tāzah Khūrmātū, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: late February to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tāzah Khūrmātū typically varies from 5°C to 44°C, and is rarely below 0°C or above 48°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 Tāzah Khūrmātū for warm-weather activities are from late February to late April and late October to early December.

Hottest
Jul
44°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
61 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
314 mm
43 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
243 m
35.3°N
Clearest
Jul
3% cloud

Tāzah Khūrmātū is human settlement in Iraq.

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

Tāzah Khūrmātū 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 February to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 23 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Tāzah Khūrmātū is July, with an average high of 44°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 25 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 20°C. The coldest month of the year in Tāzah Khūrmātū is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 14°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)
Jan145
Feb177
Mar2211
Apr2816
May3521
Jun4126
Jul4429
Aug4428
Sep3924
Oct3219
Nov2312
Dec177

How hot and cold Tāzah Khūrmātū 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, Tāzah Khūrmātū feels like about 44°C (around July 24). About 167 days a year carry some heat stress, and 108 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan141435
Feb161757
Mar22221011
Apr28281616
May35352121
Jun41412626
Jul44442929
Aug44442828
Sep39392424
Oct32321919
Nov23231212
Dec161767

Average hourly temperature in Tāzah Khūrmātū

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 44°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Tāzah Khūrmātū 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
Jan14° / 618.19.94.7
Feb17° / 507.310.75.8
Mar22° / 11°516.911.77.4
Apr28° / 16°314.912.96.9
May35° / 21°91.713.83.1
Jun41° / 26°00.114.30.1
Jul44° / 29°0014.10.0
Aug44° / 28°0013.30.0
Sep39° / 24°00.112.20.8
Oct32° / 19°19211.14.9
Nov23° / 12°39510.17.8
Dec17° / 556.99.75.8

Chance of rain

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

Tāzah Khūrmātū gets about 314 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 6.2 months, from around Oct 25 to May 1, peaking in February at about 27% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 16.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 61 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 4 · 27%Jun 16 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb257
Mar227
Apr175
May62
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct72
Nov175
Dec227

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tāzah Khūrmātū collects about 314 mm of rain across 43 wet days — roughly 26 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 61 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6150513190000193955
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan618
Feb507
Mar517
Apr315
May92
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct192
Nov395
Dec557

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tāzah Khūrmātū, 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 13 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 19. 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 20 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 12. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 37% 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 28 · 100%Dec 17 · 61%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb6733
Mar6832
Apr7129
May8317
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8416
Nov7327
Dec6337

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 14, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, 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)
Jan9.97:165:08
Feb10.76:575:38
Mar11.76:216:04
Apr12.95:366:30
May13.85:036:54
Jun14.34:527:14
Jul14.15:037:13
Aug13.35:276:47
Sep12.25:506:04
Oct11.16:155:20
Nov10.16:454:51
Dec9.77:104:48

Sunny days

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

Tāzah Khūrmātū averages about 22 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 14 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around May 17 to Oct 16. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 15 sunny days — about 51% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 3030 daysJan 2814 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb14Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr16Bright
May22Bright
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct23Bright
Nov18Bright
Dec15Bright

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 Tāzah Khūrmātū, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in October, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% 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 (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar9820
Apr9371
May9361
Jun10000
Jul9910
Aug9820
Sep9910
Oct9262
Nov9281
Dec10000

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 Tāzah Khūrmātū is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 13 to Sep 12. The windiest month is June, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 13 to Mar 12, with November the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 14 · 12 km/hNov 29 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun12calm
Jul12calm
Aug11calm
Sep10calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Tāzah Khūrmātū

In seasonPeak

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

Tāzah Khūrmātū sees seasonal dust haze (April–June), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Tāzah Khūrmātū

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Tāzah Khūrmātū 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 Tāzah Khūrmātū for general outdoor tourist activities run from late February to late April and again from late October to early December, with a peak score in the second week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 11 · 8.1

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
Jan4.7fair
Feb5.8good
Mar7.3good
Apr6.9good
May3.1poor
Jun0.2poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.8poor
Oct4.9fair
Nov7.7ideal
Dec5.8good

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 Tāzah Khūrmātū for hot-weather activities run from late March to mid May and again from early October to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 23 · 8.2

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 Tāzah Khūrmātū, 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 44°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Tāzah Khūrmātū sees daytime highs around 44°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Tāzah Khūrmātū 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 Tāzah Khūrmātū peaks around June 14 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 13 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 highHighModerateJun 14UV 10Jan 13UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul6High
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Tāzah Khūrmātū

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
Feb1.50
Mar30
Apr60
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul6.50
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.52.5
Oct4.50
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Tāzah Khūrmātū 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 Tāzah Khūrmātū is worst in March — around 55 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorMay 1555 µg/m³Jan 1548 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan48Poor
Feb50Poor
Mar55Unhealthy
Apr55Poor
May55Unhealthy
Jun55Poor
Jul52Poor
Aug53Poor
Sep55Poor
Oct54Poor
Nov49Poor
Dec49Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free day

Tāzah Khūrmātū is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan940
Feb970
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec970

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)

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. Tāzah Khūrmātū banks about 4,886 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan3
Feb47
Mar188
Apr352
May562
Jun706
Jul818
Aug805
Sep649
Oct483
Nov217
Dec56

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.

Tāzah Khūrmātū 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 24 to Sep 29. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 67% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 268.0 kWhDec 192.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.8Moderate
Mar5.1Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May7.3Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct4.5Bright
Nov3.3Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Tāzah Khūrmātū?

Tāzah Khūrmātū sits at 35.3°N, 44.3°E, 243 m above sea level, in Iraq. The nearest listed city is Kirkuk, 19 km away.

ShūrashJamjamālŢūz KhūrmātūBayjīAl-'AlamKifrīKoysinceq

Topography around Tāzah Khūrmātū

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tāzah Khūrmātū has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 53 m around an average of 248 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 188 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,331 m.

The land around Tāzah Khūrmātū is covered by cropland (54%) within 3 km, cropland (66%) within 16 km, and cropland (37%), grassland (35%) and bare terrain (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
53 m
16 km
188 m
80 km
1,331 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Kirkuk 19 km · Shūrash 52 km · Jamjamāl 53 km · Ţūz Khūrmātū 54 km · Bayjī 87 km · Al-'Alam 88 km · Kifrī 89 km · Koysinceq 91 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 Tāzah Khūrmātū (35.3024°, 44.3264°, elevation 243 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).