Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Gharyan
Gharyan climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Mar–Apr · Nov
Annual mean20°day and night
Seasonal swing18°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation311 mm44 wet days a year
32.17° N, 13.02° EElevation 704 mUTC+2 · Eastern European Standard Time
When to goGharyan · weather score
Best timeMar–Apr · Nov
October: high / low26° / 18°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Gharyan 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 34° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 13° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 18°.
About 311 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (50 mm, 9 wet days) and July the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in July to 28% in January.
Compared with Tripoli, the capital, Gharyan is 3.4° warmer on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · August
- Coldest nights
- 7° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 1% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 15 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 03 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 13° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 28° | 32° | 34° | 34° | 31° | 26° | 20° | 15° |
| Average low | 7° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 17° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 21° | 18° | 13° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 78 mm | 44 mm | 37 mm | 16 mm | 10 mm | 2 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 8 mm | 31 mm | 34 mm | 50 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.5 | 5.2 | 3 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0 | 1.2 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 3.7 | 9.2 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 23% | 24% | 22% | 22% | 10% | 1% | 3% | 11% | 23% | 25% | 28% |
| Daylight | 10h 16 | 11h 03 | 11h 57 | 12h 57 | 13h 48 | 14h 15 | 14h 04 | 13h 21 | 12h 24 | 11h 25 | 10h 32 | 10h 03 |
| Month score | 59 | 71 | 93 | 96 | 80 | 69 | 63 | 60 | 64 | 83 | 91 | 60 |
ivMonth by month
Gharyan in every month
January59
13° / 7°
78 mm · 6.5 wet days
February71
15° / 8°
44 mm · 5.2 wet days
March93
19° / 10°
37 mm · 3 wet days
April96
23° / 13°
16 mm · 1.7 wet days
May80
28° / 17°
10 mm · 3.2 wet days
June69
32° / 21°
2 mm · 0.7 wet day
July63
34° / 22°
0 mm · 0 wet days
August60
34° / 23°
1 mm · 1.2 wet day
September64
31° / 21°
8 mm · 4.5 wet days
October83
26° / 18°
31 mm · 5.3 wet days
November91
20° / 13°
34 mm · 3.7 wet days
December60
15° / 9°
50 mm · 9.2 wet days