Climate averages 1991–2020
Tobruk 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.
January is a mild month in Tobruk: daytime highs average 16.8°C and nights cool to about 10.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 20 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 18 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Darnah (145 km away). In January its highs average 16.6°C, about as warm as Tobruk, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Libya, Tobruk ranks joint 5th of 21 for the warmest January highs and 4th of 21 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 16.4°C; Tobruk is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 17.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 20 mm to 14 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
Tobruk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.8°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 20 | 4.0 | 10.310 h |
| February | 17.6°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 14 | 3.3 | 11.011 h |
| March | 19.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 7.4 | 2.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.6°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 3.3 | 0.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.4°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 4.2 | 0.8 | 13.814 h |
| June | 28.2°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 0.4 | 0.0 | 14.214 h |
| July | 29.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 0 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.4°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 29.3°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 1.7 | 0.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 5.4 | 1.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 22.2°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 9.9 | 2.1 | 10.511 h |
| December | 18.3°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 17 | 3.8 | 10.110 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
- Darnah in JanuaryLibya · 145 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 10.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Al Bayḑā’ in JanuaryLibya · 220 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 6.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Al Marj in JanuaryLibya · 297 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 8.0°C · 49 mm rain
- Marsá Maţrūḩ in JanuaryEgypt · 321 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 10.3°C · 11 mm rain
- Benghazi in JanuaryLibya · 366 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 11.0°C · 39 mm rain
- Irákleion in JanuaryGreece · 377 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 8.3°C · 68 mm rain
- Ajdabiya in JanuaryLibya · 384 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 13 mm rain
- Alexandria in JanuaryEgypt · 573 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 11.5°C · 46 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 Tobruk) is explained once on the Tobruk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.