Climate averages 1991–2020
Rafaḩ 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 Rafaḩ: daytime highs average 17.4°C and nights cool to about 8.8°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 Khān Yūnis (8 km away). In January its highs average 17.3°C, about as warm as Rafaḩ, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in the Palestinian Territory, Rafaḩ ranks 1st 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; Rafaḩ is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 18.3°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
Rafaḩ climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.4°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 35 | 8.2 | 10.410 h |
| February | 18.3°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 27 | 6.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 21.2°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 19 | 4.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.8°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 7.4 | 2.2 | 12.913 h |
| May | 27.9°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 30.3°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.9°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 32.2°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 30.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 1.0 | 0.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 28.3°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 9.0 | 2.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 23.8°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 16 | 4.5 | 10.611 h |
| December | 19.3°C10.5°C | 10.5°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
- Khān Yūnis in JanuaryPalestinian Territory · 8 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Gaza in JanuaryPalestinian Territory · 31 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 77 mm rain
- Arīsh in JanuaryEgypt · 46 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.5°C · 45 mm rain
- Ashkelon in JanuaryIsrael · 52 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 125 mm rain
- Beersheba in JanuaryIsrael · 52 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 31 mm rain
- Ashdod in JanuaryIsrael · 67 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 10.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Hebron in JanuaryPalestinian Territory · 85 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 5.1°C · 45 mm rain
- Reẖovot in JanuaryIsrael · 85 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 Rafaḩ) is explained once on the Rafaḩ year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Khān Yūnis lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.