The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Erbil 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 Erbil Intl station 6 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 Erbil
has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year
looks like.
🔥Hottest day
118°FJul 11, 2010
The three most extreme on record
1118°FJul 11, 2010
2118°FJul 12, 2010
3118°FAug 5, 2015
❄️Coldest night
21°FFeb 11, 2020
The three most extreme on record
121°FFeb 11, 2020
223°FJan 21, 2012
323°FJan 28, 2016
🌧️Most rain in one day
5.35 inMar 24, 2022
The three most extreme on record
15.35 inMar 24, 2022recent
22.32 inJan 1, 2016
31.77 inFeb 18, 2018
In plain terms
Across the record, Erbil has reached as high as 118°F and as low as 21°F. A single day has delivered over 5 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 — 1991–2020 normals computed from 30 years of daily observations at Uromiyeh, a weather station, about 189 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.