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The climate of Karbala (Iraq)
Karbala is centrally located in Iraq in the vicinity of the capital Baghdad in the Karbala Province of which it also is the capital. Shiite Muslims see Karbala as a holy city. Because of this many mosques can be found in the city, thought to be over one hundred. A shrine of Iman Hussein can be found in the city, who was the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Over the past few years the city has been in the news for several times because of bombardments and suicide attacks which have caused many casualties. Karbala has a desert climate characterized by extreme temperatures and drought. Summers are extremely warm with temperatures easily rising above 50 degrees Celsius. During this period rainfall is uncommon. Winters are mild, the small amount of precipitation that does fall, falls during this period. During the winter nights may be cold, subzero temperatures are not uncommon then.

Climate information
The figures below are based on long term weather and climate records. They are an average for Karbala.

	average  maximum temperature (°C)	average minimum temperature (°C)	average hours of sunshine per day	average days with precipitation per month	average mm precipitation per month	average sea temperature (°C)
January	16	4	6	6		n/a
February	19	6	7	6		n/a
March	23	10	8	5		n/a
April	29	15	9	4		n/a
May	36	20	11	2		n/a
June	41	24	14	0		n/a
July	44	26	14	0		n/a
August	43	25	13	0		n/a
September	40	21	12	0		n/a
October	33	16	9	1		n/a
November	24	10	7	2		n/a
December	17	6	6	3		n/a
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm = 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:

	chance of (very) hot weather	chance of (very) cool weather	chance of long-term precipitation	chance of hurricanes (cyclones)	chance of sunny days	UV-index
January
February
March
April
May
June
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August
September
October
November
December
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