Climate and average weather in Jidd Ḩafş

In Jidd Ḩafş, the summers are oppressive, sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild, breezy, and mostly clear.

Best: early January to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Jidd Ḩafş typically varies from 16°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 37°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Jidd Ḩafş for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid May and late October to late December.

Hottest
Aug
35°
Coldest
Jan
16°
Wettest
Jan
15 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
66 mm
12 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
6 m
26.2°N
Clearest
Sep
2% cloud

Jidd Ḩafş is human settlement.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Jidd Ḩafş weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Jidd Ḩafş, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.7 months, from May 23 to October 13, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in Jidd Ḩafş is August, with an average high of 35°C and low of 33°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from December 10 to March 16, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Jidd Ḩafş is January, with an average low of 16°C and high of 18°C.

Days typically run about 2°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1816
Feb1917
Mar2220
Apr2623
May3028
Jun3331
Jul3533
Aug3533
Sep3431
Oct3128
Nov2624
Dec2119

How hot and cold Jidd Ḩafş really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Jidd Ḩafş feels like about 45°C (around August 12). About 169 days a year carry some heat stress, and 110 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in August.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan18181616
Feb19191717
Mar21221920
Apr26262323
May33302828
Jun39333131
Jul43353233
Aug45353333
Sep42343131
Oct35312828
Nov26262424
Dec21211919

Average hourly temperature in Jidd Ḩafş

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 16°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Jidd Ḩafş weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan18° / 16°15310.57.5
Feb19° / 17°101.911.17.9
Mar22° / 20°101.911.88.4
Apr26° / 23°30.812.68.7
May30° / 28°10.113.36.8
Jun33° / 31°0013.64.9
Jul35° / 33°0013.53.8
Aug35° / 33°0012.93.5
Sep34° / 31°0012.24.5
Oct31° / 28°00.211.46.6
Nov26° / 24°121.610.78.7
Dec21° / 19°152.310.48.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Jidd Ḩafş gets about 66 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 7 to Apr 9, peaking in January at about 11% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 17.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 15 mm over about 3 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainJan 14 · 11%May 17 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan103
Feb62
Mar62
Apr31
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov52
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Jidd Ḩafş collects about 66 mm of rain across 12 wet days — roughly 5 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 15 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 64% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1510103101215
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan153
Feb102
Mar102
Apr31
May10
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov122
Dec152

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Jidd Ḩafş, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 12 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around November 9. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 100% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 10 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around May 11. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 22% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 18 · 100%Jan 10 · 74%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb8317
Mar7921
Apr7822
May9010
Jun991
Jul982
Aug982
Sep1000
Oct964
Nov8812
Dec8317

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 4, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.56:315:03
Feb11.16:205:25
Mar11.85:535:42
Apr12.65:195:57
May13.34:566:12
Jun13.64:496:27
Jul13.54:596:28
Aug12.95:146:10
Sep12.25:285:37
Oct11.45:425:04
Nov10.76:024:44
Dec10.46:234:45

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Jidd Ḩafş averages about 25 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 19 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around May 13 to Nov 6. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 20 sunny days — about 34% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1930 daysApr 819 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr19Bright
May26Brilliant
Jun30Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep30Brilliant
Oct29Brilliant
Nov23Brilliant
Dec22Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Jidd Ḩafş, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.5 months, from around April 4 to November 18. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 19 to April 3, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 85% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 24 · 90%May 17 · 0%comfortablehumidmuggyoppressivemiserabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan553013200
Feb493416100
Mar2232351100
Apr3113044120
May015274819
Jun00084249
Jul00012475
Aug0000694
Sep00031680
Oct014174335
Nov5172632172
Dec2735271010

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Jidd Ḩafş is typically light breeze, near 18 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Nov 8 to Apr 8. The windiest month is February, averaging about 20 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 14 to Nov 7, with August the calmest month at about 15 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyFeb 2 · 21 km/hAug 25 · 14 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan20breezy
Feb20breezy
Mar19light breeze
Apr18light breeze
May17light breeze
Jun19light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov18light breeze
Dec20light breeze

Hazard calendar for Jidd Ḩafş

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Jidd Ḩafş sees seasonal dust haze (February–August), heaviest in May.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Jidd Ḩafş

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Jidd Ḩafş throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid January, Jidd Ḩafş is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Jidd Ḩafş for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid May, with a peak score in the first week of April.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 6 · 8.9

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan7.5ideal
Feb7.9ideal
Mar8.4ideal
Apr8.7ideal
May6.8good
Jun4.9fair
Jul3.8fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct6.6good
Nov8.6ideal
Dec8.2ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Jidd Ḩafş for hot-weather activities run from early April to late July and again from mid August to late November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 25 · 9.3

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Jidd Ḩafş, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 18°C), pack a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Jidd Ḩafş sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 33°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Jidd Ḩafş

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 13 km away) is warmest in August at about 34°C and coldest in February near 18°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Mar 12 to Dec 31 — about 9.7 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan19Cool
Feb18Cool
Mar20Refreshing
Apr24Refreshing
May28Warm
Jun31Tropical
Jul32Tropical
Aug34Tropical
Sep33Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov26Warm
Dec21Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Jidd Ḩafş by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Jidd Ḩafş peaks around July 18 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 4 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highHighModerateJul 18UV 10Dec 19UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb7High
Mar6High
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct7High
Nov5Moderate
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Jidd Ḩafş

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan40
Feb5.52
Mar60
Apr62
May7.54
Jun85
Jul85.5
Aug7.55
Sep6.53.5
Oct62.5
Nov4.50
Dec3.50

Air quality in Jidd Ḩafş by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Jidd Ḩafş is worst in July — around 83 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.3× the cleanest month (November, 37 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorJul 2282 µg/m³Nov 1838 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan50Poor
Feb49Poor
Mar56Unhealthy
Apr66Unhealthy
May67Unhealthy
Jun69Unhealthy
Jul83Unhealthy
Aug80Unhealthy
Sep58Unhealthy
Oct48Poor
Nov37Poor
Dec44Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Jidd Ḩafş is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Jidd Ḩafş banks about 5,942 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan230
Feb221
Mar325
Apr433
May588
Jun660
Jul728
Aug741
Sep674
Oct603
Nov436
Dec303

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Jidd Ḩafş receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Mar 20 to Oct 2. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 49% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 307.5 kWhDec 233.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.0Moderate
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr6.7Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.2Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct5.4Bright
Nov4.3Bright
Dec3.8Moderate

Where is Jidd Ḩafş?

Jidd Ḩafş sits at 26.2°N, 50.5°E, 6 m above sea level, in Bahrain. The nearest listed city is Manama, 4.0 km away.

Isa TownMuharraqRiffaSitrahHamad TownDār Kulayb

Topography around Jidd Ḩafş

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Jidd Ḩafş.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Jidd Ḩafş has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 26 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 71 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 134 m.

The land around Jidd Ḩafş is covered by artificial surfaces (68%) and bare terrain (22%) within 3 km, water (55%) and artificial surfaces (25%) within 16 km, and water (64%) and bare terrain (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
26 m
16 km
71 m
80 km
134 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Manama 4.0 km · Isa Town 5.0 km · Muharraq 8.0 km · Riffa 10 km · Sitrah 10 km · Hamad Town 12 km · Dār Kulayb 17 km · Thuqbah 35 km

Bahrain travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 43% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$30,597
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.2
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
5.2
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 74%other 26%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Jidd Ḩafş (26.2186°, 50.5478°, elevation 6 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).