Climate averages 1991–2020
Tripoli weather
in January.
A mild, moderately wet 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 Tripoli: daytime highs average 16.3°C and nights cool to about 10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 15 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tājūrā’ (15 km away). In January its highs average 16.3°C, about as warm as Tripoli, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Libya, Tripoli ranks joint 17th of 21 for the warmest January highs and joint 20th of 21 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 16.4°C; Tripoli is level with that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 17.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 51 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
Tripoli climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 75 | 9.1 | 10.210 h |
| February | 17.1°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 51 | 6.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 19.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 22 | 3.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.8°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 12 | 1.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 26.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 4.3 | 0.7 | 13.814 h |
| June | 29.3°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 14.314 h |
| July | 31.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 14.114 h |
| August | 32.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 0.9 | 0.2 | 13.413 h |
| September | 30.6°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 9.7 | 1.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.3°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 26 | 3.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 22.2°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 51 | 6.8 | 10.510 h |
| December | 17.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 72 | 9.4 | 10.010 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
- Tājūrā’ in JanuaryLibya · 15 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 10.7°C · 75 mm rain
- Janzūr in JanuaryLibya · 18 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 9.6°C · 30 mm rain
- Qaşr Bin Ghashīr in JanuaryLibya · 23 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 8.4°C · 33 mm rain
- Az Zāwīyah in JanuaryLibya · 45 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 9.5°C · 29 mm rain
- Şurmān in JanuaryLibya · 59 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 9.6°C · 26 mm rain
- Şabrātah in JanuaryLibya · 66 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 9.4°C · 26 mm rain
- Al Ajaylat in JanuaryLibya · 77 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 9.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Msalātah in JanuaryLibya · 86 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 8.8°C · 30 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 Tripoli) is explained once on the Tripoli year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tājūrā’ lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.