Climate averages 1991–2020

Sohar weather
in January.

A warm, very dry month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 24.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 10 mm 2 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Sohar: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 14.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 10 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes January a very dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 49 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Şaḩam (27 km away). In January its highs average 24.1°C, about as warm as Sohar, with 8.9 mm of rain.

Among the 12 cities listed in Oman, Sohar ranks joint 5th of 12 for the warmest January highs and joint 7th of 12 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 12 cities is 24.4°C; Sohar is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 10 mm to 8.2 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

Sohar climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sohar, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	24.5°C14.5°C	14.5°C	10	1.8	10.811 h
February	26.2°C15.8°C	15.8°C	8.2	1.6	11.311 h
March	29.4°C18.4°C	18.4°C	14	1.9	12.012 h
April	35.0°C22.5°C	22.5°C	6.3	1.2	12.713 h
May	39.5°C26.3°C	26.3°C	1.4	0.3	13.313 h
June	40.0°C28.5°C	28.5°C	1.6	0.2	13.614 h
July	39.0°C29.4°C	29.4°C	3.6	0.3	13.513 h
August	38.1°C28.8°C	28.8°C	0.4	0.0	13.013 h
September	36.9°C27.0°C	27.0°C	0.4	0.1	12.312 h
October	34.7°C23.9°C	23.9°C	2.7	0.5	11.612 h
November	29.7°C19.9°C	19.9°C	6.4	1.2	11.011 h
December	26.0°C16.4°C	16.4°C	12	1.5	10.711 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 Sohar

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 Sohar) is explained once on the Sohar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.