Climate averages 1991–2020
Jeddah weather
in January.
A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Jeddah: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 20.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 59 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Makkah (67 km away). In January its highs average 26.3°C, about as warm as Jeddah, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 35 cities listed in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah ranks 6th of 35 for the warmest January highs and joint 28th of 35 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 35 cities is 20.9°C; Jeddah is 5.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 24 mm to 2.1 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
Jeddah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 24 | 3.0 | 11.011 h |
| February | 27.3°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 2.1 | 0.7 | 11.411 h |
| March | 28.9°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 4.1 | 0.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 3.7 | 0.5 | 12.613 h |
| May | 33.7°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 13.213 h |
| June | 34.7°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.413 h |
| July | 35.4°C27.5°C | 27.5°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.313 h |
| August | 35.4°C28.3°C | 28.3°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 12.913 h |
| September | 34.5°C27.5°C | 27.5°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 33.3°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 3.2 | 0.4 | 11.712 h |
| November | 30.6°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 26 | 2.4 | 11.111 h |
| December | 28.1°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 14 | 2.6 | 10.911 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
- Makkah in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 67 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 42 mm rain
- Ash Shafā in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 126 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Ta’if in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 130 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Rābigh in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 146 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 17.3°C · 14 mm rain
- Al Līth in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 187 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Al Bahah in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 289 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.4°C · 42 mm rain
- Port Sudan in JanuarySudan · 292 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 17 mm rain
- Yanbu in JanuarySaudi Arabia · 311 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 16.6°C · 8.0 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 Jeddah) is explained once on the Jeddah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.