Khasab climate by month
What the weather is like
Khasab has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 36° and nights 32°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 22° and lows of 19°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 14°.
About 179 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (38 mm, 3 wet days) and August the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in September to 20% in March.
The sea reaches about 32° 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 Muscat, the capital, Khasab is 1.2° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 36° · July
- Coldest nights
- 19° · January
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- September · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 32° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 31 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 | 22° | 23° | 25° | 30° | 34° | 36° | 36° | 36° | 34° | 32° | 28° | 24° |
| Average low | 19° | 19° | 21° | 25° | 29° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 30° | 28° | 25° | 21° |
| Precipitation | 38 mm | 39 mm | 42 mm | 7 mm | 3 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 7 mm | 40 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.2 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
| Cloud cover | 17% | 16% | 20% | 16% | 7% | 2% | 7% | 5% | 1% | 3% | 10% | 16% |
| Sea temperature | 23° | 23° | 23° | 25° | 28° | 31° | 32° | 32° | 32° | 30° | 28° | 25° |
| Daylight | 10h 40 | 11h 16 | 11h 59 | 12h 46 | 13h 25 | 13h 46 | 13h 38 | 13h 05 | 12h 20 | 11h 34 | 10h 53 | 10h 31 |
| Month score | 92 | 94 | 92 | 78 | 62 | 57 | 58 | 58 | 60 | 69 | 85 | 94 |