Climate guideThirty-year normals for Dilling
Dilling climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean27°day and night
Seasonal swing8°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation563 mm91 wet days a year
12.05° N, 29.65° EElevation 687 mUTC+2 · Central Africa Time
When to goDilling · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Dilling has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 38° and nights 23°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 30° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 563 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (153 mm, 26 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in November to 42% in August.
Compared with Khartoum, the capital, Dilling is 1.3° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 38° · April
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- November · 11% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 50 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 25 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 | 30° | 32° | 35° | 38° | 37° | 33° | 30° | 30° | 30° | 33° | 33° | 31° |
| Average low | 16° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 24° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 21° | 20° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 5 mm | 40 mm | 65 mm | 135 mm | 153 mm | 114 mm | 49 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 9.8 | 24.2 | 26 | 18.2 | 8.3 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 14% | 15% | 17% | 18% | 27% | 34% | 39% | 42% | 40% | 26% | 11% | 11% |
| Daylight | 11h 29 | 11h 45 | 12h 03 | 12h 24 | 12h 41 | 12h 50 | 12h 46 | 12h 32 | 12h 12 | 11h 52 | 11h 35 | 11h 25 |
| Month score | 80 | 71 | 58 | 57 | 49 | 40 | 42 | 43 | 40 | 48 | 64 | 76 |
ivMonth by month
Dilling in every month
January80
30° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February71
32° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
35° / 20°
1 mm · 0 wet days
April57
38° / 23°
5 mm · 0.5 wet day
May49
37° / 24°
40 mm · 3.7 wet days
June40
33° / 23°
65 mm · 9.8 wet days
July42
30° / 22°
135 mm · 24.2 wet days
August43
30° / 22°
153 mm · 26 wet days
September40
30° / 22°
114 mm · 18.2 wet days
October48
33° / 21°
49 mm · 8.3 wet days
November64
33° / 20°
1 mm · 0.5 wet day
December76
31° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days