11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
22°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ NW 16 km/h
Gusts27 km/h
Humidity 35 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NW 23 km/h
Humidity 15 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNW 9 km/h
Humidity 26 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
30°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ N 23 km/h
Humidity 16 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
25°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NNW 11 km/h
Humidity 26 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
31°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ NE 11 km/h
Humidity 21 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
27°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ SSW 6 km/h
Humidity 27 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
32°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ WNW 9 km/h
Humidity 24 %
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Basrah forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Basrah climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 170 mm of rain — less than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Day and night differ most in September: 43 °C in the afternoon against 28 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 47 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 9 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.
From May to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (37 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
18 °C
9 °C
35 mm
Feb
22 °C
11 °C
19 mm
Mar
27 °C
14 °C
25 mm
Apr
33 °C
20 °C
11 mm
May
40 °C
27 °C
5 mm
Jun
45 °C
30 °C
0 mm
Jul
47 °C
32 °C
0 mm
Aug
47 °C
32 °C
1 mm
Sep
43 °C
28 °C
1 mm
Oct
37 °C
22 °C
7 mm
Nov
27 °C
15 °C
34 mm
Dec
20 °C
10 °C
33 mm
Whole year
34 °C
21 °C
170 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 30.51° N, 47.78° 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 Basrah: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.546µg/m³
PM1087µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Basrah
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Basrah, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Basrah yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Basrah
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:22 Set 16:36
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Baghdad); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Basrah
Curious about the weather in Basrah on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Basrah weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Basrah, Basra: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 26 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.
Expected range today: 26 °C to 34 °C and a dry sky; it will be very hot. 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.
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