Basrah weather in July

Name: Basrah
Address: IQ

In July, Basrah has daytime highs averaging 47 °C, nights around 32 °C, with 0.07 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

46.7°C Average high
32.2°C Average low
0.07days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
14h Daylight

Daily temperatures through July

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 47.3 °C and lows bottom out at 31.4 °C.

How July develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 July	46.1 °C	31.6 °C
11–20 July	46.7 °C	32.3 °C
21–31 July	47.1 °C	32.5 °C

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in July. Wettest date over the 30 years: July 17, at 3 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical July	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days above 30 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0.07 of 31	0 %

Conditions in July

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	40 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	53 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	27 °C
Relative humidity	14 %
Wind speed	29 km/h
Cloud cover	2 %

Where Basrah ranks in July

Ranking	Position	Value
The warmest places in Asia in July	2ndof 50	47 °C
The warmest places in the world in July	2ndof 50	47 °C
The driest places in Asia in July	36thof 50	0.08 mm

July compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
May	40.4 °C	4 mm	24 %
June	45.0 °C	under 1 mm	3 %
July	46.7 °C	under 1 mm	2 %
August	46.7 °C	under 1 mm	2 %
September	42.9 °C	under 1 mm	2 %

See all twelve months for Basrah

July is the 2nd warmest month here.
It is the 1st driest month of the year.
It ranks 1st for least cloud cover.
Days last about 14 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0.07 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 14 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest July day on record since 1991 reached 53 °C, 5.8 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in July

Destination	Avg high	Wet days	Sea
Basrah	47 °C	0.07	–
Ahvaz	47 °C	0	–
Ḩawallī	43 °C	0	31
Bandar-e Māhshahr	46 °C	0	–
Nasiriyah	46 °C	0	–
Al ‘Amārah	47 °C	0	–
Al Aḩmadī	44 °C	0	31
Dezful	46 °C	0	–

QuestionsJuly in Basrah, answered

How warm is Basrah in July?

Daily highs average 47 °C and nights fall to about 32 °C, a spread of 14 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes July the 1st warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Basrah in July?

July averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 2 % of the sky.

How long are the days in July?

Basrah averages 14 hours between sunrise and sunset in July. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.