The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Baghdad has
recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far
they sit beyond a normal day.
Based on 16 years of daily weather observations (2009–present), from the Baghdad Intl Airport station 18 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Baghdad
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
125°FJul 28, 2020
The three most extreme on record
1125°FJul 28, 2020
2124°FAug 2, 2011
3124°FJul 30, 2015
❄️Coldest night
23°FFeb 26, 2025
The three most extreme on record
123°FFeb 26, 2025recent
225°FJan 22, 2012
326°FFeb 3, 2017
🌧️Most rain in one day
3.13 inNov 21, 2020
The three most extreme on record
13.13 inNov 21, 2020
22.64 inDec 25, 2012
32.29 inNov 10, 2013
In plain terms
Across the record, Baghdad has reached as high as 125°F and as low as 23°F. A single day has delivered over 3 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.