Baghdad - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the overall climate: is it extremely hot or cold, wet or dry, at any time of year, for example?
May-September will be very hot (well over 100). The rest of the year is actually quite pleasant. November-March chilly (low 40s in the evenings). Bring layers. - Apr 2019
Insane heat in summer. Fall/winter is nice and even cold at times. - Jul 2018
Hot for two-thirds of the year, and near-freezing in the winter. Pack a fleece, you'll need it. - Jan 2016
Gets hot in the summer, and cool in the winter. I've likened it to the weather in Las Vegas. - Feb 2014
Dusty and very, very, very hot and sunny in the summer. Bring a hat and lots of sunscreen. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. Chilly in the winter - bring a coat. - Jan 2014
Hot in the summers. Relentlessly hot and sunny. It will be between 110-120 degrees all day, every day, all summer, from May through the end of September. Nothing but sun, not a cloud in the sky. It's oppressively, oppressively hot here in summers. Do not take this lightly. October and November are lovely, and winter is chilly and rainy, where chilly = highs in the low 60s. - Jan 2013
Very dry, as it is a desert. Hot and dry in summer, and dry and cold (but not too cold) in winter. - Nov 2011
Hot in the summer. Hot and dusty. Very arid. - Sep 2010
Hot and dusty. Repeat X 365 days... - Aug 2008
