Sulaymaniyah is typically chill in January.

Maximum temperatures go down compared to the previous month from +54°F to +48°F. The minimum temperature also goes down from +34°F to +30°F.

Pack a jumper and a jacket as there will be cooler temperatures.

January is the coldest month in Sulaymaniyah, here is the comparison with other months:

January typically has worse weather conditions compared to December. It’s getting colder in January. From +54°F in the day, the average maximum temperature lowers to +48°F. Prepare for more rain. Average rainfall goes from 85 mm to 86 mm. Humidity rises from 73% to 76%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during January, staying around 1 m/s. The days becoming less sunny, going from 11 sunny days in December to 9 in January.

But maybe it is worth considering traveling in February as the weather gets better.

January is one of the snowiest months in Sulaymaniyah.

Here’s how January is compared with other months in the amount of snow, total mm:

The climate in Sulaymaniyah in January has not changed that much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1982 (+70°F) and the highest in 2021 (+80°F). The driest year was 2021 with only 252 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2018 with 879 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Sulaymaniyah, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.