Ar-Raḥaībāt, Libya Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 38°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of 5°C. A normal year brings 184 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Oct 3
- Normal high
- 31°C
- Normal low
- 19°C
- Reanalysis high
- 41°Cin 2020
- Reanalysis low
- 14°Cin 2000
- Chance of a wet day
- 14%
- Daylight
- 11 h 47 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.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16°C | 5°C | 26°C (1997) | -2°C (2005) | 23 mm | 4.2 |
| February | 18°C | 6°C | 33°C (2010) | -2°C (1999) | 28 mm | 3.7 |
| March | 22°C | 9°C | 36°C (2010) | 1°C (2005) | 25 mm | 3.2 |
| April | 27°C | 12°C | 40°C (2016) | 4°C (2015) | 8 mm | 1.7 |
| May | 31°C | 16°C | 43°C (2016) | 8°C (1992) | 9 mm | 1.2 |
| June | 36°C | 20°C | 45°C (2016) | 12°C (2006) | 3 mm | 0.4 |
| July | 38°C | 22°C | 46°C (2008) | 15°C (2000) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 38°C | 23°C | 46°C (2014) | 17°C (2000) | 1 mm | 0.4 |
| September | 34°C | 21°C | 43°C (2005) | 14°C (2018) | 14 mm | 2.4 |
| October | 29°C | 17°C | 41°C (2020) | 8°C (2007) | 25 mm | 3.9 |
| November | 22°C | 11°C | 35°C (2003) | 2°C (1998) | 19 mm | 3.0 |
| December | 17°C | 7°C | 29°C (2010) | -1°C (1996) | 29 mm | 5.0 |
| Year | 27°C | 14°C | 184 mm | 29 |
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.
184 mm in a normal year, most in December.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Ar-Raḥaībāt.
The muggiest month is August, when 1 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2°C | 62% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 1°C | 57% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 3°C | 51% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 5°C | 45% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 7°C | 40% | 95% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 9°C | 37% | 85% | 14% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 10°C | 36% | 81% | 15% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 11°C | 38% | 64% | 24% | 11% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 12°C | 45% | 54% | 30% | 15% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 9°C | 50% | 76% | 19% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 5°C | 54% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 3°C | 62% | 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 August, with the sky 11 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 43 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 April, averaging 17.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 17, with 14 h 14 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 15, with 10 h 04 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Ar-Raḥaībāt 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 2026-10-01. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.