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Al-'Alūaṣ, Libya Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Al-'Alūaṣ, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

The warmest month is August, with an average high of 35°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 8°C. A normal year brings 258 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.

Normal daily high and low temperature at Al-'Alūaṣ through the year, in °C, with the record for each date.01020304050JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Normal low
  • Normal high
  • Reanalysis extreme high
  • Reanalysis extreme low

Normals for Sep 25

Normal high
31°C
Normal low
21°C
Reanalysis high
39°Cin 2020
Reanalysis low
18°Cin 1992
Chance of a wet day
14%
Daylight
12 h 03 min

Month by month

Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.

MonthAvg highAvg lowWarmestColdestPrecipitationWet days
January17°C8°C27°C (1997)2°C (2005)47 mm6.2
February17°C8°C32°C (2010)1°C (2012)37 mm5.7
March21°C10°C36°C (2001)4°C (2008)25 mm3.1
April25°C12°C39°C (2016)7°C (2015)12 mm3.0
May29°C16°C42°C (2016)9°C (1992)9 mm0.0
June33°C20°C45°C (1995)13°C (2006)3 mm0.0
July35°C22°C44°C (2009)17°C (1992)0 mm0.0
August35°C23°C44°C (2002)19°C (2011)3 mm0.0
September33°C22°C42°C (2014)17°C (1997)21 mm3.0
October29°C19°C40°C (2020)12°C (2007)31 mm6.2
November23°C14°C33°C (2003)6°C (1998)27 mm6.0
December18°C10°C28°C (2019)3°C (2010)43 mm6.2
Year26°C15°C258 mm39

Precipitation

Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

258 mm in a normal year, most in January.

Chance of a wet day

The chance of at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis on each date at Al-'Alūaṣ, in percent.0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Al-'Alūaṣ.

The muggiest month is September, when 14 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January5°C68%100%0%0%0%0%0%
February5°C66%100%0%0%0%0%0%
March7°C63%99%1%0%0%0%0%
April8°C58%97%3%0%0%0%0%
May10°C54%82%16%2%0%0%0%
June12°C50%54%32%14%0%0%0%
July14°C50%25%38%33%4%0%0%
August16°C52%13%28%46%13%0%0%
September16°C57%10%30%45%14%0%0%
October13°C60%40%34%24%3%0%0%
November9°C61%86%13%1%0%0%0%
December6°C65%100%0%0%0%0%0%

Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.

Clouds

Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.

The clearest month is July, with the sky 14 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 53 percent.

Wind

The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.

The windiest month is January, averaging 19.1 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 18, with 14 h 19 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 21, with 9 h 59 min.

Hours of daylight at Al-'Alūaṣ through the year.0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Day length

Solar energy

Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.

Sunrise and sunset calendar

Month pages

The weather in Al-'Alūaṣ in each month, day by day.

What this means

A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.

Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.

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Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.