Benghazi climate by month
What the weather is like
Benghazi has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 30° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 12°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 13°.
About 333 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (80 mm, 12 wet days) and July the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in July to 27% in January.
The sea reaches about 27° 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 Tripoli, the capital, Benghazi is 0.5° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · August
- Coldest nights
- 12° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 2% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 14 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 04 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° | 17° | 20° | 22° | 25° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 23° | 19° |
| Average low | 12° | 12° | 13° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 21° | 17° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 80 mm | 54 mm | 26 mm | 4 mm | 3 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 3 mm | 21 mm | 54 mm | 88 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.2 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 6.3 | 11.8 |
| Cloud cover | 27% | 23% | 21% | 19% | 18% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 15% | 23% | 27% |
| Sea temperature | 18° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 16 | 11h 03 | 11h 57 | 12h 57 | 13h 47 | 14h 14 | 14h 04 | 13h 21 | 12h 24 | 11h 25 | 10h 32 | 10h 04 |
| Month score | 66 | 80 | 89 | 96 | 95 | 87 | 82 | 78 | 75 | 86 | 85 | 72 |