Al Wakrah climate by month
What the weather is like
Al Wakrah has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 39° and nights 30°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 21° and lows of 15°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 84 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (6 mm, 2 wet days) and July the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 1% in September to 19% in March.
The sea reaches about 34° 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 Doha, the capital, Al Wakrah is 0.9° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · July
- Coldest nights
- 15° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- September · 1% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 34° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 42 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 35 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 | 21° | 22° | 25° | 30° | 35° | 38° | 39° | 39° | 37° | 33° | 28° | 23° |
| Average low | 15° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 27° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 28° | 26° | 22° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 11 mm | 16 mm | 26 mm | 5 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 6 mm | 19 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Cloud cover | 17% | 14% | 19% | 19% | 9% | 2% | 6% | 5% | 1% | 4% | 10% | 17% |
| Sea temperature | 20° | 19° | 21° | 24° | 28° | 31° | 33° | 34° | 33° | 31° | 27° | 23° |
| Daylight | 10h 44 | 11h 19 | 11h 59 | 12h 44 | 13h 22 | 13h 42 | 13h 34 | 13h 02 | 12h 19 | 11h 36 | 10h 56 | 10h 35 |
| Month score | 96 | 97 | 97 | 78 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 64 | 83 | 96 |