Climate averages 1991–2020
Khān Yūnis 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 Khān Yūnis: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 8.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 21 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rafaḩ (8 km away). In January its highs average 17.4°C, about as warm as Khān Yūnis, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in the Palestinian Territory, Khān Yūnis ranks 2nd of 5 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 5 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 5 cities is 15.5°C; Khān Yūnis is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 18.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 35 mm to 27 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
Khān Yūnis climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 35 | 8.2 | 10.410 h |
| February | 18.4°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 27 | 6.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 21.5°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 19 | 4.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.3°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 7.4 | 2.2 | 12.913 h |
| May | 28.5°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 30.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 32.5°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 32.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 31.3°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 1.0 | 0.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 28.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 9.0 | 2.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 16 | 4.5 | 10.611 h |
| December | 19.3°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 23 | 6.3 | 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
- Rafaḩ in JanuaryPalestinian Territory · 8 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.8°C · 35 mm rain
- Gaza in JanuaryPalestinian Territory · 24 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Ashkelon in JanuaryIsrael · 44 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 125 mm rain
- Beersheba in JanuaryIsrael · 47 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 31 mm rain
- Arīsh in JanuaryEgypt · 54 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.5°C · 45 mm rain
- Ashdod in JanuaryIsrael · 60 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 10.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Hebron in JanuaryPalestinian Territory · 78 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 5.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Reẖovot in JanuaryIsrael · 78 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 9.9°C · 97 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 Khān Yūnis) is explained once on the Khān Yūnis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Rafaḩ lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.