11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
22°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ ENE 7 km/h
Humidity 34 %
Evening
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Humidity 38 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Drizzle
21°
Feels like 22°
Wind↑ NE 10 km/h
Humidity 45 %
💧 0.2 mm
Evening
Rain showers
21°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ N 8 km/h
Humidity 61 %
💧 1.5 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
22°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ ENE 7 km/h
Humidity 43 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
23°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NW 16 km/h
Humidity 46 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
22°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNW 10 km/h
Humidity 46 %
Karbala forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Karbala climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 110 mm of rain — less than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 44 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 7 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 25 °C.
From May to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from April to October; the typical peak is 44 °C in August.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (35 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
16 °C
7 °C
21 mm
Feb
19 °C
9 °C
17 mm
Mar
25 °C
13 °C
14 mm
Apr
31 °C
19 °C
11 mm
May
37 °C
24 °C
4 mm
Jun
42 °C
28 °C
0 mm
Jul
44 °C
30 °C
0 mm
Aug
44 °C
30 °C
0 mm
Sep
41 °C
26 °C
0 mm
Oct
35 °C
21 °C
5 mm
Nov
24 °C
14 °C
20 mm
Dec
18 °C
9 °C
17 mm
Whole year
31 °C
19 °C
110 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.62° N, 44.02° 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 Karbala: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1023µg/m³
O₃68µg/m³
NO₂9µg/m³
SO₂13µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Karbala
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Karbala, 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 Karbala yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Karbala
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:31 Set 16:58
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 Karbala
Curious about the weather in Karbala on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Karbala weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Karbala, Karbala: 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 28 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.
Expected range today: 25 °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.
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