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Baghdad · 7,216,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:32

Mainly clear
23°
Mainly clear
Feels like 28°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
68 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
23 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:18 Set 17:13 Day 10 h 55 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
28°25°
Feels like 33°
Wind ↑ WNW 4 km/h
Gusts 10 km/h
Humidity 50 %
00:00
Mainly clear
23°
NW 4

Baghdad forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
17°21°25°29°33°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°20°Thu 29 Oct: max 31° · min 23° · normal 24.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 22° · normal 24.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 31° · min 20° · normal 23.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 22° · normal 23.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 21° · normal 23.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 19° · normal 23.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 20° · normal 22.9°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu18°26°33°31°19°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Baghdad climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 160 mm of rain — less than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 45 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 7 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.

Day and night differ most in September: 42 °C in the afternoon against 27 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

From May to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (36 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan17 °C7 °C30 mm
Feb20 °C9 °C24 mm
Mar25 °C13 °C24 mm
Apr31 °C18 °C15 mm
May38 °C24 °C5 mm
Jun44 °C29 °C0 mm
Jul45 °C31 °C0 mm
Aug45 °C31 °C0 mm
Sep42 °C27 °C0 mm
Oct36 °C22 °C10 mm
Nov25 °C14 °C27 mm
Dec19 °C9 °C26 mm
Whole year32 °C19 °C160 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 33.34° N, 44.40° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Baghdad: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.519µg/m³
PM1028µg/m³
O₃46µg/m³
NO₂44µg/m³
SO₂48µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Baghdad

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Baghdad, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Baghdad yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Baghdad

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:27 Set 16:59
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Baghdad); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Baghdad

Curious about the weather in Baghdad on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Baghdad weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Baghdad, Baghdad: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 23 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Baghdad weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations