11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ NNE 6 km/h
Humidity 57 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ NW 9 km/h
Humidity 35 %
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
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NNE 8 km/h
Humidity 45 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNW 8 km/h
Humidity 37 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NE 8 km/h
Humidity 52 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NNW 12 km/h
Humidity 33 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NNE 8 km/h
Humidity 49 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
24°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NW 13 km/h
Humidity 31 %
Kirkuk 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)
Kirkuk climate: what a normal year looks like
Day and night differ most in September: 38 °C in the afternoon against 22 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 42 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 5 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 440 mm of rain — less than 89% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
From June to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (32 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
13 °C
5 °C
82 mm
Feb
15 °C
6 °C
71 mm
Mar
20 °C
10 °C
71 mm
Apr
26 °C
14 °C
48 mm
May
33 °C
20 °C
15 mm
Jun
40 °C
25 °C
1 mm
Jul
42 °C
28 °C
0 mm
Aug
43 °C
27 °C
0 mm
Sep
38 °C
23 °C
1 mm
Oct
32 °C
18 °C
28 mm
Nov
22 °C
11 °C
52 mm
Dec
15 °C
6 °C
74 mm
Whole year
28 °C
16 °C
440 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.47° N, 44.39° 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 Kirkuk: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1026µg/m³
O₃67µg/m³
NO₂6µg/m³
SO₂8µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kirkuk
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kirkuk, 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 Kirkuk yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kirkuk
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:19 Set 17:07
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 Kirkuk
Curious about the weather in Kirkuk on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kirkuk weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kirkuk, Kirkuk: 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 23 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.
Expected range today: 23 °C to 28 °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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