Climate averages 1991–2020

Beersheba weather
in January.

A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 15.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 7.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 31 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Beersheba: daytime highs average 15.8°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 22 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gaza (41 km away). In January its highs average 16.9°C, 1.1°C warmer than Beersheba, with 77 mm of rain.

Among the 18 cities listed in Israel, Beersheba ranks 16th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 1st of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 16.2°C; Beersheba is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 17.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 31 mm to 26 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Beersheba climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Beersheba, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	15.8°C7.2°C	7.2°C	31	6.2	10.410 h
February	17.1°C7.6°C	7.6°C	26	6.1	11.111 h
March	20.7°C9.7°C	9.7°C	19	4.4	12.012 h
April	25.4°C12.5°C	12.5°C	6.1	1.9	12.913 h
May	29.2°C15.9°C	15.9°C	4.0	0.9	13.714 h
June	31.6°C18.6°C	18.6°C	0.3	0.1	14.114 h
July	33.2°C20.5°C	20.5°C	0.1	0.0	14.014 h
August	33.3°C21.1°C	21.1°C	0	0.0	13.313 h
September	31.5°C19.9°C	19.9°C	0.5	0.2	12.412 h
October	28.3°C17.6°C	17.6°C	5.0	1.6	11.411 h
November	22.8°C13.3°C	13.3°C	8.8	2.5	10.611 h
December	17.9°C9.1°C	9.1°C	16	4.3	10.210 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

Distance from Beersheba

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Beersheba) is explained once on the Beersheba year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.