Climate and average weather in Ţūz Khūrmātū

In Ţūz 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 Ţūz Khūrmātū typically varies from 5°C to 43°C, and is rarely below -0°C or above 47°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 Ţūz Khūrmātū for warm-weather activities are from late February to late April and late October to early December.

Hottest
Jul
43°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
75 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
392 mm
46 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
227 m
34.9°N
Clearest
Jul
3% cloud

Ţūz Khūrmātū is city.

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

Ţūz 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 Ţūz 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 24 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Ţūz Khūrmātū is July, with an average high of 43°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 25 to March 7, with daily high temperatures below 20°C. The coldest month of the year in Ţūz 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
Feb167
Mar2110
Apr2715
May3421
Jun4026
Jul4329
Aug4328
Sep3924
Oct3219
Nov2212
Dec167

How hot and cold Ţūz 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, Ţūz Khūrmātū feels like about 44°C (around July 25). About 163 days a year carry some heat stress, and 103 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
Feb161647
Mar2121910
Apr27271515
May34342121
Jun40402626
Jul43432929
Aug43432828
Sep39392424
Oct32321919
Nov22221112
Dec161657

Average hourly temperature in Ţūz 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 43°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Ţūz 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° / 758.49.94.5
Feb16° / 64810.75.4
Mar21° / 10°607.111.77.2
Apr27° / 15°39512.97.2
May34° / 21°102.413.83.5
Jun40° / 26°00.114.30.2
Jul43° / 29°00.114.10.0
Aug43° / 28°0013.30.0
Sep39° / 24°10.112.21.0
Oct32° / 19°232.111.15.2
Nov22° / 12°505.310.27.7
Dec16° / 727.59.75.6

Chance of rain

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

Ţūz Khūrmātū gets about 392 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 6.3 months, from around Oct 26 to May 5, peaking in February at about 30% 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 75 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 1 · 30%Jun 16 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb288
Mar237
Apr175
May72
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct72
Nov185
Dec248

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ţūz Khūrmātū collects about 392 mm of rain across 46 wet days — roughly 33 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 75 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec75646039100001235072
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan758
Feb648
Mar607
Apr395
May102
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct232
Nov505
Dec728

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ţūz 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 27 · 100%Dec 14 · 61%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb6634
Mar6832
Apr7030
May8317
Jun982
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep991
Oct8416
Nov7228
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 7, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.97:145:08
Feb10.76:555:37
Mar11.76:196:03
Apr12.95:356:28
May13.85:036:52
Jun14.34:527:12
Jul14.15:037:11
Aug13.35:266:45
Sep12.25:496:02
Oct11.16:135:20
Nov10.26:434:51
Dec9.77:084:48

Sunny days

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

Ţūz Khūrmātū averages about 21 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 16 to Oct 15. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 15 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2630 daysJan 3014 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb14Mixed
Mar16Bright
Apr16Bright
May22Bright
Jun29Brilliant
Jul31Brilliant
Aug31Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct23Bright
Nov18Bright
Dec15Mixed

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 Ţūz Khūrmātū, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in October, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% 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
Mar9910
Apr9371
May9361
Jun10000
Jul9910
Aug9910
Sep10000
Oct9271
Nov9370
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 Ţūz Khūrmātū is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 13 to Sep 19. The windiest month is June, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 20 to Mar 12, with December the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 18 · 13 km/hDec 4 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun12light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug12calm
Sep11calm
Oct10calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Ţūz Khūrmātū

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Ţūz Khūrmātū

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Ţūz 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 Ţūz 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 9 · 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
Jan4.5fair
Feb5.4fair
Mar7.2good
Apr7.1good
May3.5fair
Jun0.3poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep1.1poor
Oct5.2fair
Nov7.7ideal
Dec5.6good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 22 · 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 Ţūz 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 43°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, Ţūz Khūrmātū sees daytime highs around 43°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ţūz 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 Ţūz Khūrmātū peaks around June 14 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 highVery highHighModerateJun 14UV 10Jan 12UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul6High
Aug9Very high
Sep7High
Oct5Moderate
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ţūz 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 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
Feb2.50
Mar3.50
Apr60
May7.54
Jun8.56
Jul6.51.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep62
Oct4.50
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Ţūz 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 Ţūz Khūrmātū 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 day

Ţūz 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
Jan9217
Feb950
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec960

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. Ţūz Khūrmātū banks about 4,729 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan1
Feb34
Mar171
Apr333
May541
Jun691
Jul805
Aug794
Sep638
Oct469
Nov205
Dec47

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.

Ţūz Khūrmātū receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 24 to Sep 30. 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 258.0 kWhDec 192.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.9Moderate
Feb3.8Moderate
Mar5.2Bright
Apr6.4Intense
May7.3Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct4.6Bright
Nov3.3Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Ţūz Khūrmātū?

Ţūz Khūrmātū sits at 34.9°N, 44.6°E, 227 m above sea level, in Iraq. The nearest listed city is Kifrī, 37 km away.

Tāzah KhūrmātūKirkukKelarShūrashJamjamālAl-'AlamKhānaqīn

Topography around Ţūz Khūrmātū

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ţūz Khūrmātū has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 153 m around an average of 239 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 221 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,782 m.

The land around Ţūz Khūrmātū is covered by bare terrain (35%) and artificial surfaces (34%) within 3 km, bare terrain (41%) and cropland (37%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (38%), grassland (30%) and cropland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
153 m
16 km
221 m
80 km
1,782 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Kifrī 37 km · Tāzah Khūrmātū 54 km · Kirkuk 68 km · Kelar 69 km · Shūrash 72 km · Jamjamāl 74 km · Al-'Alam 88 km · Khānaqīn 92 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 Ţūz Khūrmātū (34.8881°, 44.6326°, elevation 227 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).