Climate averages 1991–2020

Khān Yūnis weather
in March.

A mild, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 21.5°C Daytime mean, March
Average low 11.0°C Night-time mean, March
Rainfall 19 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Khān Yūnis · average highYear overview

March is a mild month in Khān Yūnis: daytime highs average 21.5°C and nights cool to about 11.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 19 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes March a fairly dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Rafaḩ (8 km away). In March its highs average 21.2°C, about as warm as Khān Yūnis, with 19 mm of rain.

Among the 5 cities listed in the Palestinian Territory, Khān Yūnis ranks 1st of 5 for the warmest March highs and joint 1st of 5 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 5 cities is 19.7°C; Khān Yūnis is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 25.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 19 mm to 7.4 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 5101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Khān Yūnis, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 17.3°C8.6°C8.6°C358.210.410 h
February 18.4°C9.0°C9.0°C276.911.111 h
March, selected 21.5°C11.0°C11.0°C194.512.012 h
April 25.3°C13.5°C13.5°C7.42.212.913 h
May 28.5°C16.7°C16.7°C3.20.813.714 h
June 30.9°C19.9°C19.9°C0.50.214.114 h
July 32.5°C22.2°C22.2°C0.30.114.014 h
August 32.7°C22.8°C22.8°C0.20.013.313 h
September 31.3°C21.5°C21.5°C1.00.312.412 h
October 28.6°C18.9°C18.9°C9.02.311.411 h
November 23.9°C14.4°C14.4°C164.510.611 h
December 19.3°C10.4°C10.4°C236.310.210 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

March in nearby cities

Distance from Khān Yūnis

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 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.