Shahhat climate by month
What the weather is like
Shahhat has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 27° and nights 18°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 12° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 13°.
About 583 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (133 mm, 11 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 5% in July to 34% 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, Shahhat is 3.3° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 27° · August
- Coldest nights
- 6° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 5% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 18 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 00 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 | 12° | 13° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 23° | 18° | 14° |
| Average low | 6° | 6° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 18° | 17° | 14° | 11° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 133 mm | 93 mm | 72 mm | 22 mm | 10 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 8 mm | 38 mm | 81 mm | 123 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 10.7 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 10 |
| Cloud cover | 34% | 31% | 27% | 23% | 19% | 7% | 5% | 6% | 9% | 19% | 27% | 33% |
| Sea temperature | 18° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 13 | 11h 01 | 11h 56 | 12h 59 | 13h 50 | 14h 18 | 14h 07 | 13h 23 | 12h 24 | 11h 24 | 10h 29 | 10h 00 |
| Month score | 43 | 58 | 77 | 98 | 96 | 94 | 93 | 90 | 92 | 96 | 88 | 54 |