Jidhafs climate by month
What the weather is like
Jidhafs has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 35° and nights 33°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 18° and lows of 16°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 82 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (10 mm, 2 wet days) and June the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in June to 22% in April.
The sea reaches about 34° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Manama, the capital, Jidhafs is 0.1° warmer on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 35° · August
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- June
- Clearest skies
- June · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 34° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 31 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 18° | 19° | 21° | 25° | 30° | 32° | 34° | 35° | 33° | 30° | 25° | 21° |
| Average low | 16° | 17° | 19° | 23° | 28° | 31° | 32° | 33° | 31° | 28° | 24° | 19° |
| Precipitation | 16 mm | 14 mm | 21 mm | 5 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 10 mm | 16 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| Cloud cover | 20% | 16% | 21% | 22% | 11% | 1% | 4% | 3% | 1% | 5% | 12% | 19% |
| Sea temperature | 19° | 18° | 20° | 24° | 28° | 31° | 32° | 34° | 33° | 30° | 26° | 21° |
| Daylight | 10h 40 | 11h 16 | 11h 59 | 12h 46 | 13h 25 | 13h 46 | 13h 38 | 13h 05 | 12h 20 | 11h 34 | 10h 52 | 10h 31 |
| Month score | 95 | 96 | 96 | 96 | 81 | 69 | 62 | 60 | 66 | 77 | 93 | 95 |