Climate averages 1991–2020
El Geneina Fort weather
in January.
A hot, very dry month: the 11th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in El Geneina Fort: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 13.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical January (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 25 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al-Junaynah (3 km away). In January its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as El Geneina Fort, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 22 cities listed in Sudan, El Geneina Fort ranks joint 15th of 22 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 31.1°C; El Geneina Fort is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 32.6°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 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
El Geneina Fort climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.9°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 0 | 0.0 | 11.411 h |
| February | 32.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 11.712 h |
| March | 35.5°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 37.5°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 2.6 | 0.9 | 12.412 h |
| May | 37.3°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 12 | 3.3 | 12.713 h |
| June | 35.7°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 38 | 7.9 | 12.913 h |
| July | 30.7°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 180 | 22.6 | 12.813 h |
| August | 28.8°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 231 | 24.5 | 12.613 h |
| September | 31.1°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 69 | 11.3 | 12.212 h |
| October | 33.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 11 | 2.5 | 11.812 h |
| November | 32.2°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 0.2 | 0.0 | 11.512 h |
| December | 30.1°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 0 | 0.0 | 11.311 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
- Al-Junaynah in JanuarySudan · 3 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 13.1°C · 0 mm rain
- Abéché in JanuaryChad · 180 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 16.4°C · 0 mm rain
- Nyala in JanuarySudan · 307 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 16.0°C · 0 mm rain
- El Fasher in JanuarySudan · 313 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 11.2°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Am Timan in JanuaryChad · 359 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 0 mm rain
- Gereida in JanuarySudan · 380 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 0 mm rain
- El Daein in JanuarySudan · 457 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 16.7°C · 0 mm rain
- An Nuhūd in JanuarySudan · 653 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 15.3°C · 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 El Geneina Fort) is explained once on the El Geneina Fort year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Al-Junaynah lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.