Hawally climate by month
What the weather is like
Hawally has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 40° and nights 32°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 23°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 110 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (28 mm, 2 wet days) and August the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in June to 23% in April.
The sea reaches about 32° 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 Kuwait City, the capital, Hawally is 1.2° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · July
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- June · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 32° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 01 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 17 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 | 17° | 18° | 23° | 28° | 34° | 39° | 40° | 40° | 37° | 32° | 25° | 19° |
| Average low | 10° | 12° | 15° | 21° | 26° | 30° | 32° | 32° | 29° | 24° | 18° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 28 mm | 13 mm | 18 mm | 9 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 19 mm | 21 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Cloud cover | 22% | 18% | 21% | 23% | 14% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 8% | 18% | 23% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 26° | 29° | 31° | 32° | 31° | 28° | 24° | 19° |
| Daylight | 10h 28 | 11h 09 | 11h 58 | 12h 52 | 13h 36 | 14h 01 | 13h 51 | 13h 13 | 12h 22 | 11h 30 | 10h 42 | 10h 17 |
| Month score | 88 | 97 | 98 | 84 | 61 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 69 | 97 | 96 |