11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NNE 7 km/h
Humidity 33 %
Evening
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NE 13 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 36 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
23°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ NE 16 km/h
Humidity 37 %
Evening
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NNE 20 km/h
Humidity 50 %
💧 0.7 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ E 9 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Evening
Mainly clear
24°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NW 17 km/h
Gusts25 km/h
Humidity 39 %
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
23°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NNW 11 km/h
Humidity 43 %
Najaf forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.4° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Najaf climate: what a normal year looks like
A normal year brings roughly 100 mm of rain — less than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Day and night differ most in September: 42 °C in the afternoon against 26 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 45 °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.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (36 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
17 °C
7 °C
21 mm
Feb
20 °C
8 °C
14 mm
Mar
26 °C
13 °C
12 mm
Apr
32 °C
18 °C
11 mm
May
38 °C
23 °C
4 mm
Jun
43 °C
28 °C
0 mm
Jul
45 °C
30 °C
0 mm
Aug
45 °C
29 °C
0 mm
Sep
42 °C
26 °C
0 mm
Oct
36 °C
21 °C
4 mm
Nov
25 °C
13 °C
18 mm
Dec
19 °C
8 °C
17 mm
Whole year
32 °C
19 °C
100 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.03° N, 44.35° 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 Najaf: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1024µg/m³
O₃68µg/m³
NO₂6µg/m³
SO₂7µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Najaf
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Najaf, 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 Najaf yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Najaf
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:32 Set 16:55
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 Najaf
Curious about the weather in Najaf on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Najaf weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Najaf, Najaf: 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 30 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 25 °C to 32 °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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