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Mirbat climate by month
What the weather is like
Mirbat has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 25° and lows of 21°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 5°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 225 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (43 mm, 8 wet days) and January the driest (4 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 7% in November to 33% in July.
The sea reaches about 29° in May. 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, Mirbat is 7.4° cooler on a May afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · May
- Coldest nights
- 21° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- November · 7% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · May
- Longest day
- 13 h 08 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 07 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 | 25° | 25° | 27° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 28° | 28° | 26° |
| Average low | 21° | 21° | 23° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 22° |
| Precipitation | 4 mm | 8 mm | 10 mm | 15 mm | 16 mm | 30 mm | 67 mm | 43 mm | 18 mm | 6 mm | 3 mm | 5 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.7 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Cloud cover | 10% | 11% | 10% | 11% | 14% | 28% | 33% | 26% | 23% | 10% | 7% | 9% |
| Sea temperature | 25° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 29° | 28° | 25° | 24° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 26° |
| Daylight | 11h 13 | 11h 35 | 12h 01 | 12h 31 | 12h 55 | 13h 08 | 13h 03 | 12h 43 | 12h 15 | 11h 46 | 11h 21 | 11h 07 |
| Month score | 98 | 97 | 84 | 80 | 75 | 73 | 73 | 78 | 88 | 85 | 84 | 93 |