Climate
Mosul experiences a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh) with extremely hot, almost rainless summers and cool, rainy winters. Mosul, although not at a particularly high elevation, still receives much more rain than most of Iraq. Rainfall is close to 3 times that of Baghdad and over twice that of Basra, despite being much further from the Persian Gulf than either. The Kurdish regions to the north are even wetter.
| Climate data for Mosul | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 12.4 (54.3) |
14.8 (58.6) |
19.3 (66.7) |
25.2 (77.4) |
32.7 (90.9) |
39.2 (102.6) |
42.9 (109.2) |
42.6 (108.7) |
38.2 (100.8) |
30.6 (87.1) |
21.1 (70.0) |
14.1 (57.4) |
27.76 (81.96) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 2.2 (36.0) |
3.4 (38.1) |
6.8 (44.2) |
11.2 (52.2) |
16.2 (61.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
25.0 (77.0) |
24.2 (75.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
13.5 (56.3) |
7.2 (45.0) |
3.8 (38.8) |
12.83 (55.09) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 62.1 (2.445) |
62.7 (2.469) |
63.2 (2.488) |
44.1 (1.736) |
15.2 (0.598) |
1.1 (0.043) |
0.2 (0.008) |
0.0 (0) |
0.3 (0.012) |
11.8 (0.465) |
45.0 (1.772) |
57.9 (2.28) |
363.6 (14.315) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 11 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 71 |
| Source: World Meteorological Organisation (UN) | |||||||||||||
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