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Mosul weather

Nineveh · 1,683,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:33

Mainly clear
23°
Mainly clear
Feels like 27°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
12 km/h
Humidity
62 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
37 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:27 Set 17:14 Day 10 h 47 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
23°21°
Feels like 27°
Wind ↑ ENE 5 km/h
Gusts 12 km/h
Humidity 62 %
21:00
Mainly clear
21°
NW 2
00:00
Partly cloudy
20°
NW 2

Mosul 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)
13°17°21°24°28°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed23°17°Thu 29 Oct: max 24° · min 19° · normal 20.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 26° · min 17° · normal 20.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 25° · min 16° · normal 20.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 25° · min 15° · normal 20.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 26° · min 17° · normal 19.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 26° · min 16° · normal 19.4°Wed 4 Nov: max 23° · min 17° · normal 19.1°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu14°21°28°26°15°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Mosul climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 42 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 27 °C.

Day and night differ most in September: 37 °C in the afternoon against 22 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 450 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 25 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan12 °C4 °C81 mm
Feb14 °C5 °C72 mm
Mar19 °C8 °C73 mm
Apr25 °C13 °C51 mm
May32 °C19 °C19 mm
Jun39 °C25 °C1 mm
Jul42 °C27 °C0 mm
Aug42 °C27 °C0 mm
Sep37 °C22 °C1 mm
Oct31 °C17 °C23 mm
Nov21 °C10 °C56 mm
Dec14 °C5 °C71 mm
Whole year27 °C15 °C450 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 36.34° N, 43.12° 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 Mosul: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.519µg/m³
PM1029µg/m³
O₃49µg/m³
NO₂19µg/m³
SO₂8µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mosul

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

Moon over Mosul

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:21 Set 17:15
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 Mosul

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

Mosul weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mosul, Nineveh: 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 23 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky. 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