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1 Baghdad, Iraq is at 3313'N, 4413'E, 34 m (112 ft). See map. 2  According to the Holdridge life zones system of bioclimatic classification Baghdad is situated in or near the subtropical desert biome.  The average annual temperature is 22.8 degrees Celsius (73 degrees Fahrenheit).
RELATED: Baghdad, Iraq, hits 120 degrees. Both temperatures are literally off the charts. The heat index, developed in 1979, inputs air temperature and dew point to estimate the âfeels likeâ figure for a given day. At the time, however, the highest heat index that researchers were capable of imagining was 136 degreesâwhich is an air temperature of 110 degrees and a dew point of 80.