Climate averages 1991–2020
Kuwait City weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Kuwait City: daytime highs average 17.5°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 29 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ḩawallī (6 km away). In January its highs average 17.5°C, about as warm as Kuwait City, with 28 mm of rain.
Among the 3 cities listed in Kuwait, Kuwait City ranks joint 2nd of 3 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 3 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 3 cities is 17.6°C; Kuwait City is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 20.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 28 mm to 13 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
Kuwait City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 28 | 4.3 | 10.510 h |
| February | 20.0°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 13 | 2.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 24.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 17 | 2.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.5°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 12.913 h |
| May | 37.0°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 2.2 | 0.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 41.9°C30.0°C | 30.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| July | 43.3°C31.7°C | 31.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| August | 43.1°C31.5°C | 31.5°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 40.0°C28.2°C | 28.2°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 34.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 2.3 | 0.4 | 11.511 h |
| November | 25.4°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 30 | 3.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 19.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 25 | 3.9 | 10.310 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
- Ḩawallī in JanuaryKuwait · 6 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Al Aḩmadī in JanuaryKuwait · 34 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.6°C · 28 mm rain
- Umm Qaşr in JanuaryIraq · 75 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 7.8°C · 35 mm rain
- Al Fāw in JanuaryIraq · 83 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 10.9°C · 39 mm rain
- Abadan in JanuaryIran · 113 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Az Zubayr in JanuaryIraq · 117 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 7.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Abū al-Kahṣīb in JanuaryIraq · 120 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 36 mm rain
- Khorramshahr in JanuaryIran · 121 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.2°C · 38 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 Kuwait City) is explained once on the Kuwait City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ḩawallī lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures come from the same 0.1° cell and differ only by the elevation adjustment.