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 Tarhuna
Tarhuna climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Mar–Apr · Nov
Annual mean19°day and night
Seasonal swing17°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation252 mm47 wet days a year
32.44° N, 13.63° EElevation 391 mUTC+2 · Eastern European Standard Time
When to goTarhuna · weather score
Best timeMar–Apr · Nov
October: high / low27° / 17°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Tarhuna 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 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 7°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 252 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (41 mm, 10 wet days) and July the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in July to 26% in January.
Compared with Tripoli, the capital, Tarhuna is 3.7° warmer on a August afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · August
- Coldest nights
- 7° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 2% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 16 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 02 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 | 14° | 16° | 20° | 24° | 28° | 32° | 34° | 34° | 31° | 27° | 21° | 16° |
| Average low | 7° | 7° | 9° | 12° | 15° | 19° | 21° | 21° | 20° | 17° | 12° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 57 mm | 34 mm | 29 mm | 12 mm | 5 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 12 mm | 26 mm | 33 mm | 41 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 7.2 | 5.3 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 10 |
| Cloud cover | 26% | 22% | 23% | 22% | 22% | 10% | 2% | 3% | 11% | 22% | 25% | 26% |
| Daylight | 10h 15 | 11h 02 | 11h 57 | 12h 58 | 13h 49 | 14h 16 | 14h 05 | 13h 22 | 12h 24 | 11h 25 | 10h 31 | 10h 02 |
| Month score | 64 | 77 | 94 | 97 | 80 | 68 | 63 | 58 | 61 | 79 | 90 | 65 |
ivMonth by month
Tarhuna in every month
January64
14° / 7°
57 mm · 7.2 wet days
February77
16° / 7°
34 mm · 5.3 wet days
March94
20° / 9°
29 mm · 2.7 wet days
April97
24° / 12°
12 mm · 1.3 wet day
May80
28° / 15°
5 mm · 2.7 wet days
June68
32° / 19°
1 mm · 0.7 wet day
July63
34° / 21°
1 mm · 0 wet days
August58
34° / 21°
1 mm · 1.8 wet days
September61
31° / 20°
12 mm · 5.2 wet days
October79
27° / 17°
26 mm · 5.5 wet days
November90
21° / 12°
33 mm · 4.2 wet days
December65
16° / 8°
41 mm · 10 wet days