Salum Air Base

IQ-0044 · Diyālá, Iraq

Climate Salum Air Base 2021-2025

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (ORBI) between 2021 and 2025.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 71.4 68 78 42 68 84
February 78.1 69 68 81 84 79
March 85.7 76 84 76 87 92
April 87.3 80 89 69 91
May 83.8 72 86 79 58 88
June 90.5 89 92 89 67 93
July 93.2 95 99 73 96
August 92.3 96 92 65 92
September 93.5 96 94 82 98
October 80.5 78 74 74 90
November 72.6 69 71 66 88
December 63.7 61 61 47 81
Average 83.1 75.6 83.0 79.6 70.7 89.7

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 83.6 88 95 60 80 90
February 89.1 90 85 94 93 89
March 95.4 94 100 92 95 98
April 94.8 97 99 82 95
May 91.7 85 99 94 71 93
June 95.3 96 98 96 82 98
July 96.7 99 100 82 99
August 96.4 100 99 80 95
September 98.2 98 99 97 99
October 92.7 93 93 93 97
November 87.3 91 87 86 96
December 77.5 80 83 70 92
Average 92.0 90.7 95.1 91.6 84.4 95.2

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 17.1 17.6 19.6 15.6 15.9 19.0
February 18.8 16.3 19.3 18.6 20.8 20.6
March 23.7 24.0 23.8 24.3 22.0 24.5
April 30.3 33.2 29.1 31.5 32.8
May 36.9 38.8 35.3 35.6 34.8 39.7
June 42.5 42.7 44.8 40.6 42.7 42.2
July 45.1 44.7 45.7 44.2 45.8
August 44.8 44.8 45.7 45.0 45.2
September 41.4 40.1 41.8 41.2 39.6
October 33.8 32.3 33.3 35.2 34.1
November 24.3 23.1 25.3 24.8 25.8
December 18.8 18.3 20.3 19.8 18.6
Average 31.1 28.0 31.6 30.9 31.9 32.4

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 5.6 5.5 7.5 6.5 3.7 5.0
February 6.9 4.2 8.1 6.0 7.5 8.0
March 11.7 12.5 11.4 13.0 9.4 11.5
April 16.3 17.8 15.8 16.5 17.0
May 21.9 23.6 22.1 21.3 20.6 23.1
June 26.2 26.5 28.5 25.5 26.1 25.1
July 28.7 29.8 28.1 27.8 29.1
August 28.2 29.1 29.1 28.5 27.3
September 24.5 25.1 24.1 24.5 23.6
October 18.8 16.8 20.1 19.1 18.3
November 12.5 12.1 13.1 12.9 11.9
December 7.8 5.5 9.0 9.9 6.7
Average 17.1 14.6 17.8 17.3 17.5 17.2

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 2.6 5 0 7 1 1
February 3.7 4 7 0 1 3
March 3.0 5 4 1 1 1
April 2.2 2 2 1 0
May 0.6 0 0 0 1 0
June 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
July 0.0 0 0 0 0
August 0.0 0 0 0 0
September 0.0 0 0 0 0
October 0.8 0 2 1 1
November 3.1 3 3 4 0
December 1.9 1 3 1 1
Average 1.4 2.3 1.3 1.4 0.8 0.5

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 7.2 7 7 7 7 7
February 7.4 7 7 8 8 7
March 8.7 8 8 8 9 9
April 8.6 9 8 9 9
May 8.8 10 8 9 10 8
June 10.0 10 9 8 9 12
July 10.9 11 9 12 9
August 10.1 10 8 11 8
September 8.2 9 7 8 10
October 6.8 7 5 7 7
November 6.5 7 7 6 7
December 7.0 7 6 7 8
Average 8.5 8.4 8.3 7.5 8.9 8.6

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 317° 262° 297° 243° 260°
February 312° 300° 321° 289° 312°
March 344° 322° 186° 269° 263°
April 347° 322° 296° 307°
May 317° 316° 322° 293° 288°
June 307° 307° 316° 302° 297°
July 306° 304° 292° 298°
August 305° 303° 301° 287°
September 314° 318° 296° 301°
October 318° 328° 323° 320°
November 335° 249° 314° 310°
December 315° 315° 291° 267°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.