Kambut climate by month
What the weather is like
Kambut has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 31° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 123 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (29 mm, 10 wet days) and June the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in July to 25% in January.
The sea reaches about 26° 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, Kambut is 0.3° warmer on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · August
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- June
- Clearest skies
- July · 2% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 26° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 13 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 05 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° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 27° | 23° | 18° |
| Average low | 9° | 9° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 21° | 18° | 14° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 29 mm | 27 mm | 9 mm | 4 mm | 4 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 11 mm | 14 mm | 24 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 10.3 | 6 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
| Cloud cover | 25% | 22% | 19% | 18% | 15% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 12% | 21% | 24% |
| Sea temperature | 18° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 17 | 11h 03 | 11h 57 | 12h 57 | 13h 46 | 14h 13 | 14h 03 | 13h 20 | 12h 23 | 11h 26 | 10h 33 | 10h 05 |
| Month score | 69 | 84 | 90 | 98 | 93 | 84 | 78 | 76 | 79 | 86 | 89 | 86 |