Kirkuk
City in Iraq: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Kirkuk citadel: Chad.r.hill at English Wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kirkuk is a city in Iraq. About 1.0 million people live in the city proper, making it the 6th largest city of Iraq in our atlas.
It lies at 35.47° N, 44.39° E, about 346 m (1,135 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Baghdad time zone.
Location
Red dot: Kirkuk. Green dots: other major cities of Iraq. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kirkuk has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 44°C (110°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 2°C (35°F). Around 281 mm (11 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Mar.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in IraqNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Erbil · 87 km
- Sulaymaniyah · 95 km
- Mosul · 150 km
- Sadr City · 231 km
- Baghdad · 236 km
- Abū Ghurayb · 241 km
- Al Hillah · 333 km
- Nasiriyah · 518 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 94787 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q173310 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Kirkuk citadel: Chad.r.hill at English Wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Villes assyriennes: Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg: Sémhur derivative work: Zunkir (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
