Climate averages 1991–2020
Ar Rifā‘ weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Ar Rifā‘: daytime highs average 18.4°C and nights cool to about 15.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 42 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Madīnat Ḩamad (5 km away). In January its highs average 18.4°C, about as warm as Ar Rifā‘, with 14 mm of rain.
Among the 4 cities listed in Bahrain, Ar Rifā‘ ranks joint 3rd of 4 for the warmest January highs and joint 2nd of 4 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 4 cities is 18.5°C; Ar Rifā‘ is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 19.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 15 mm to 9.6 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Ar Rifā‘ climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 18.4°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 15 | 3.0 | 10.711 h |
| February | 19.1°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 9.6 | 1.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 10 | 1.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.7°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 12.813 h |
| May | 30.2°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| June | 33.3°C29.4°C | 29.4°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.714 h |
| July | 34.7°C30.9°C | 30.9°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| August | 35.0°C31.1°C | 31.1°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 33.7°C29.4°C | 29.4°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.6°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.6°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 12 | 1.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 20.7°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 15 | 2.3 | 10.511 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Madīnat Ḩamad in JanuaryBahrain · 5 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 15.0°C · 14 mm rain
- Manama in JanuaryBahrain · 11 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 15.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Al Muharraq in JanuaryBahrain · 15 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 15.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Khobar in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 38 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 12.0°C · 17 mm rain
- Dammam in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 56 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 12.5°C · 19 mm rain
- Al Qaţīf in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 73 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 12.5°C · 19 mm rain
- Lusail in JanuaryQatar · 124 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 14.3°C · 11 mm rain
- Ar Rayyān in JanuaryQatar · 128 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 12.9°C · 11 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ar Rifā‘) is explained once on the Ar Rifā‘ year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Al Muharraq and Manama lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.