Kirkuk, Iraq Weather Radar

About Kirkuk weather

Kirkuk is in Kirkuk District, Iraq at 35.47°, 44.39°. Right now it’s 31° and mostly cloudy; today’s high is 34° with a 0% chance of rain.

Iraq's climate is dominated by extreme heat and aridity, with the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys forming a fertile corridor through otherwise harsh desert terrain. Summer temperatures in Baghdad and Basra routinely exceed 50°C, making southern Iraq one of the hottest inhabited regions on Earth. The western and southwestern deserts receive less than 100mm of rainfall annually, while the Kurdish mountains in the north see snow and significantly cooler conditions.