Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in Saudi Arabia.

ClimaNote covers 35 cities in Saudi Arabia, starting with Jeddah, Riyadh and Makkah. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 22.7°C in Abha to 34.4°C in Makkah, and yearly rainfall from 17 mm in Tabuk to 845 mm in Abha. The hottest city-month is July in Al Hufūf, with an average high of 44.8°C, and the coolest is January in Arar, at 14.1°C. By single month, the most rain falls in August in Abha, with 218 mm.

August is the warmest month in 12 cities, July in 11 and June in 9 (in 3 other cities two or more months tie); January is the coolest in 34 cities and December in 1. November is the wettest month in 9 cities, January in 7, April in 6, August in 6, December in 3 and October in 1 (in 3 other cities two or more months tie); June is the driest in 8 cities, July in 3, September in 2, November in 2 and December in 2 (in 18 other cities two or more months tie). Of these cities, 26 have a month with under 1 mm of rain; none has a month with an average high below 2.0°C or a month with more than 300 mm of rain.