Climate averages 1991–2020

Hafar Al-Batin weather
in January.

A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 17.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 5.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 22 mm 4 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Hafar Al-Batin: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 33 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Aḩmadī (218 km away). In January its highs average 17.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Hafar Al-Batin, with 28 mm of rain.

Among the 35 cities listed in Saudi Arabia, Hafar Al-Batin ranks joint 29th of 35 for the warmest January highs and joint 26th of 35 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 35 cities is 20.9°C; Hafar Al-Batin is 3.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 22 mm to 11 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

Hafar Al-Batin climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Hafar Al-Batin, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	17.3°C5.8°C	5.8°C	22	3.5	10.611 h
February	20.6°C7.6°C	7.6°C	11	2.2	11.211 h
March	25.8°C11.9°C	11.9°C	17	2.5	12.012 h
April	32.3°C17.6°C	17.6°C	9.9	2.1	12.813 h
May	38.5°C23.3°C	23.3°C	1.6	0.5	13.514 h
June	42.1°C26.2°C	26.2°C	0.1	0.0	13.914 h
July	43.6°C27.8°C	27.8°C	0	0.0	13.814 h
August	43.8°C27.6°C	27.6°C	0	0.0	13.213 h
September	40.5°C24.2°C	24.2°C	0	0.0	12.412 h
October	34.8°C19.6°C	19.6°C	1.2	0.3	11.512 h
November	24.7°C12.7°C	12.7°C	26	3.5	10.811 h
December	18.8°C7.5°C	7.5°C	21	3.7	10.410 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 Hafar Al-Batin

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 Hafar Al-Batin) is explained once on the Hafar Al-Batin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.