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Dihok weather

Duhok · 340,900 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:30

Partly cloudy
16°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 16°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
18 km/h
Humidity
73 %
Pressure
1017 hPa
Clouds
70 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:28 Set 17:14 Day 10 h 45 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
18°16°
Feels like 18°
Wind ↑ NE 8 km/h
Gusts 16 km/h
Humidity 75 %
00:00
Partly cloudy
16°
NNE 9

Dihok forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
11°15°19°22°26°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed24°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 20° · min 16° · normal 18.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 14° · normal 18.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 21° · min 13° · normal 17.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 23° · min 15° · normal 17.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 21° · min 14° · normal 17.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 21° · min 13° · normal 17.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 24° · min 16° · normal 16.9°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu12°19°25°24°13°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Dihok climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in September: 34 °C in the afternoon against 18 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 39 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.

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

The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 50% of the annual total; March by itself averages 112 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan9 °C1 °C111 mm
Feb11 °C2 °C100 mm
Mar15 °C5 °C112 mm
Apr21 °C10 °C80 mm
May28 °C15 °C35 mm
Jun35 °C20 °C3 mm
Jul39 °C23 °C1 mm
Aug39 °C23 °C1 mm
Sep34 °C18 °C2 mm
Oct27 °C14 °C32 mm
Nov18 °C7 °C67 mm
Dec11 °C2 °C100 mm
Whole year24 °C12 °C640 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 36.87° N, 42.99° 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 Dihok: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.517µg/m³
PM1020µg/m³
O₃67µg/m³
NO₂6µg/m³
SO₂4µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Dihok

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Dihok, 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 Dihok yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Dihok

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:20 Set 17:18
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 Dihok

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

Dihok weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Dihok, Duhok: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 20 °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.

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