Best time to visit Iraq
Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Iraq agrees on Mar, Apr, May, Oct, Nov.
| Place | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ErbilMarch to May, and October to November (summer is 45°C; winter is mild and the mountains are green) | March to May, and October to November (summer is 45°C; winter is mild and the mountains are green) | ||||||||||||
| SulaymaniyahMarch to May, and October to November (summer is 42°C; spring is green and the season for the mountains) | March to May, and October to November (summer is 42°C; spring is green and the season for the mountains) | ||||||||||||
| BaghdadOctober to April (summer is 47°C and nothing is open in the afternoon; spring is the season) | October to April (summer is 47°C and nothing is open in the afternoon; spring is the season) |
best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.
The guides in Iraq
ErbilIraqA citadel lived in for six thousand years, a bazaar of Kurdish tea houses under it, and the capital of the Iraq that visitors actually reach
SulaymaniyahIraqThe cultural capital of Kurdistan: a prison turned museum that spares nothing, a bazaar the size of a town, and mountains with waterfalls an hour out
BaghdadIraqThe city of the caliphs on the Tigris, a book market that reopens every Friday, the Abbasid palace, and a visit that is possible again and is done with a guide