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Tripoli climate by month
What the weather is like
Tripoli has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 1,090 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (233 mm, 12 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in July to 28% in January.
The sea reaches about 28° 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 Beirut, the capital, Tripoli is 1.2° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 10° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 2% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 28° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 27 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 52 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 | 16° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 28° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 23° | 18° |
| Average low | 10° | 10° | 12° | 14° | 18° | 21° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 20° | 15° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 233 mm | 189 mm | 135 mm | 54 mm | 24 mm | 5 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 7 mm | 75 mm | 166 mm | 199 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.4 | 10.7 | 7.6 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 4.5 | 7.5 | 10.4 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 28% | 25% | 21% | 12% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 13% | 22% | 27% |
| Sea temperature | 18° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 21° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 26° | 23° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 06 | 10h 57 | 11h 56 | 13h 02 | 13h 57 | 14h 27 | 14h 15 | 13h 28 | 12h 25 | 11h 22 | 10h 23 | 9h 52 |
| Month score | 62 | 68 | 82 | 88 | 94 | 86 | 79 | 77 | 79 | 81 | 82 | 75 |