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Erbil · 1,612,700 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:33

Mainly clear
22°
Mainly clear
Feels like 26°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
68 %
Pressure
1015 hPa
Clouds
45 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:23 Set 17:11 Day 10 h 47 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
22°20°
Feels like 26°
Wind ↑ ENE 6 km/h
Humidity 68 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
20°
ENE 6
00:00
Partly cloudy
21°
E 5

Erbil forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°18°21°25°28°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed23°16°Thu 29 Oct: max 25° · min 19° · normal 19.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 25° · min 18° · normal 19.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 24° · min 16° · normal 18.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 26° · min 16° · normal 18.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 25° · min 18° · normal 18.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 26° · min 17° · normal 18.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 23° · min 16° · normal 18.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu14°21°27°26°16°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Erbil climate: what a normal year looks like

Day and night differ most in September: 37 °C in the afternoon against 21 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 42 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 3 °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.

A normal year brings roughly 550 mm of rain — less than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan12 °C3 °C101 mm
Feb14 °C5 °C93 mm
Mar18 °C8 °C92 mm
Apr24 °C13 °C64 mm
May31 °C18 °C22 mm
Jun39 °C23 °C1 mm
Jul42 °C26 °C0 mm
Aug42 °C26 °C0 mm
Sep37 °C21 °C1 mm
Oct31 °C17 °C28 mm
Nov21 °C9 °C64 mm
Dec14 °C5 °C87 mm
Whole year27 °C14 °C550 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 36.19° N, 44.01° 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 Erbil: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.517µg/m³
PM1028µg/m³
O₃54µg/m³
NO₂17µg/m³
SO₂7µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Erbil

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

Moon over Erbil

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:18 Set 17:11
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 Erbil

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

Erbil weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Erbil, Erbil: 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 22 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 25 °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