Climate guideThirty-year normals for Ta'if
Ta'if climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Feb–Mar · Dec
Annual mean21°day and night
Seasonal swing13°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation237 mm7 wet days a year
21.27° N, 40.42° EElevation 1,672 mUTC+3 · Arabian Standard Time
When to goTa'if · weather score
Best timeFeb–Mar · Dec
October: high / low28° / 16°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Ta'if has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is June, when afternoons average 33° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 19° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 13°.
About 237 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. April is the wettest month (31 mm, 1 wet days) and February the driest (6 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in October to 19% in January.
Compared with Riyadh, the capital, Ta'if is 8.2° cooler on a June afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 33° · June
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- April
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- October · 8% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 25 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 51 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 | 19° | 21° | 23° | 27° | 30° | 33° | 32° | 32° | 31° | 28° | 23° | 20° |
| Average low | 9° | 10° | 12° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 21° | 22° | 20° | 16° | 13° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 12 mm | 6 mm | 28 mm | 31 mm | 37 mm | 4 mm | 4 mm | 30 mm | 22 mm | 24 mm | 27 mm | 12 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Cloud cover | 19% | 13% | 12% | 13% | 14% | 10% | 16% | 16% | 13% | 8% | 9% | 16% |
| Daylight | 10h 58 | 11h 27 | 12h 00 | 12h 38 | 13h 09 | 13h 25 | 13h 19 | 12h 52 | 12h 17 | 11h 41 | 11h 08 | 10h 51 |
| Month score | 98 | 100 | 99 | 90 | 75 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 73 | 88 | 98 | 99 |
ivMonth by month
Ta'if in every month
January98
19° / 9°
12 mm · 0.7 wet day
February100
21° / 10°
6 mm · 0.1 wet days
March99
23° / 12°
28 mm · 0.5 wet day
April90
27° / 15°
31 mm · 1.4 wet day
May75
30° / 19°
37 mm · 1.4 wet day
June66
33° / 22°
4 mm · 0.3 wet days
July71
32° / 21°
4 mm · 0.2 wet days
August70
32° / 22°
30 mm · 0.1 wet days
September73
31° / 20°
22 mm · 0.2 wet days
October88
28° / 16°
24 mm · 0.6 wet day
November98
23° / 13°
27 mm · 0.7 wet day
December99
20° / 10°
12 mm · 0.4 wet days