Ubari weather in January

In January, Ubari sees average daytime highs of 18°C and overnight lows near 5°C, with 3 mm of rain across 0.6 wet days and about 10.5 hours of daylight. It is the 12th-warmest and 1st-wettest month of the year here.

Highs climb over the month, from about 18°C in the first days to 19°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 73% of the time in January, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 10 h 24 min at the start of January to 10 h 42 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Ubari's 8th-clearest and 10th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Ubari's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 18°; 12th warmest
Overnight low: 5°; 1st coldest
Rainfall: 3 mm; 0.6 wet days
Daylight: 10 h 30 min; 8:03 AM – 6:33 PM
Cloud cover: 24%; 8th clearest
Wind: 12 km/h; 10th windiest
Solar energy: 4.43 kWh/m²
Travel score: 7.9; out of 10

Ubari is town in Libya.

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

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Temperature in January

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs climb over the month, from about 18°C in the first days to 19°C by the end.

A typical January day in Ubari reaches about 18°C in the afternoon and slips back to 5°C overnight — a 13°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 14°C and 24°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs about 1°C cooler than December and about 3°C cooler than February.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Avg low (°C)	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	5
2	18	5
3	18	5
4	18	5
5	18	5
6	18	5
7	18	5
8	18	5
9	18	5
10	18	5
11	18	5
12	18	5
13	18	5
14	18	5
15	18	5
16	18	5
17	18	5
18	18	5
19	18	5
20	18	5
21	18	6
22	19	6
23	19	6
24	19	6
25	19	6
26	19	6
27	19	6
28	19	6
29	19	6
30	19	6
31	19	6

How January really feels in Ubari

Once humidity and wind are folded in, January averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

January sits comfortably in between — no days that feel dangerously hot or drop to a hard freeze once humidity and wind are folded in.

Ubari weather by month

How January compares with the rest of the year at a glance. January is the 12th-warmest and 1st-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	18° / 5°	3	0.6	10.5	7.9
Feb	21° / 8°	1	0.4	11.1	8.7
Mar	26° / 12°	1	0.4	11.8	8.8
Apr	32° / 18°	0	0.1	12.6	5.4
May	36° / 22°	1	0.3	13.3	2.7
Jun	39° / 25°	1	0.4	13.6	0.9
Jul	39° / 25°	0	0	13.5	1.0
Aug	38° / 25°	0	0	12.9	1.1
Sep	37° / 23°	0	0	12.2	2.2
Oct	31° / 18°	2	0.3	11.4	5.8
Nov	25° / 11°	1	0.1	10.7	9.0
Dec	19° / 7°	1	0.4	10.4	8.2

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 73% of the time in January.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 8% of January, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 19%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	84	83	83	83	83	82	82	81	81	80	79	80	80	79	79	79	78	78	79	79	79	80	80	80	81	81	82	82	82	83	83
Cloudier (%)	16	17	17	17	17	18	18	19	19	20	21	20	20	21	21	21	22	22	21	21	21	20	20	20	19	19	18	18	18	17	17

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	84	16
2	83	17
3	83	17
4	83	17
5	83	17
6	82	18
7	82	18
8	81	19
9	81	19
10	80	20
11	79	21
12	80	20
13	80	20
14	79	21
15	79	21
16	79	21
17	78	22
18	78	22
19	79	21
20	79	21
21	79	21
22	80	20
23	80	20
24	80	20
25	81	19
26	81	19
27	82	18
28	82	18
29	82	18
30	83	17
31	83	17

Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitation

Ubari gets around 3 mm of rain over 0.6 wet days in January, the wettest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 2% and peaks near 3% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1

	Rain chance (%)
1	0
2	1
3	1
4	1
5	1
6	1
7	1
8	1
9	1
10	2
11	2
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	3
17	3
18	3
19	3
20	3
21	3
22	3
23	2
24	2
25	2
26	2
27	2
28	2
29	2
30	1
31	1

Humidity in January

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of January feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, January lands in the dry band about 100% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Dry (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100

Wind in January

Winds average 12 km/h in January.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 12 km/h on the calmest days to 13 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Feels	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze	light breeze

	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	12	calm
2	12	calm
3	12	calm
4	12	calm
5	12	calm
6	12	calm
7	12	calm
8	12	calm
9	12	calm
10	12	light breeze
11	12	light breeze
12	12	light breeze
13	12	light breeze
14	12	light breeze
15	12	light breeze
16	13	light breeze
17	13	light breeze
18	13	light breeze
19	13	light breeze
20	13	light breeze
21	13	light breeze
22	13	light breeze
23	13	light breeze
24	13	light breeze
25	13	light breeze
26	13	light breeze
27	13	light breeze
28	13	light breeze
29	13	light breeze
30	13	light breeze
31	13	light breeze

Sunrise & sunset in January

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 10 h 24 min at the start of January to 10 h 42 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 18 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 8:01 AM to 8:00 AM, and sunset from 6:23 PM to 6:45 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.4	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.5	10.6	10.6	10.6	10.6	10.6	10.6	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.7	10.7
Sunrise (AM)	8:01	8:02	8:02	8:02	8:02	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:03	8:02	8:02	8:02	8:02	8:01	8:01	8:01	8:00	8:00
Sunset (PM)	6:23	6:23	6:24	6:25	6:25	6:26	6:27	6:27	6:28	6:29	6:29	6:30	6:31	6:32	6:32	6:33	6:34	6:35	6:35	6:36	6:37	6:38	6:38	6:39	6:40	6:41	6:42	6:42	6:43	6:44	6:45

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	10.4	8:01	6:23
2	10.4	8:02	6:23
3	10.4	8:02	6:24
4	10.4	8:02	6:25
5	10.4	8:02	6:25
6	10.4	8:03	6:26
7	10.4	8:03	6:27
8	10.4	8:03	6:27
9	10.4	8:03	6:28
10	10.4	8:03	6:29
11	10.4	8:03	6:29
12	10.5	8:03	6:30
13	10.5	8:03	6:31
14	10.5	8:03	6:32
15	10.5	8:03	6:32
16	10.5	8:03	6:33
17	10.5	8:03	6:34
18	10.5	8:03	6:35
19	10.5	8:03	6:35
20	10.6	8:03	6:36
21	10.6	8:03	6:37
22	10.6	8:03	6:38
23	10.6	8:02	6:38
24	10.6	8:02	6:39
25	10.6	8:02	6:40
26	10.7	8:02	6:41
27	10.7	8:01	6:42
28	10.7	8:01	6:42
29	10.7	8:01	6:43
30	10.7	8:00	6:44
31	10.7	8:00	6:45

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 4.43 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.08 kWh/m² to a high of 7.89 kWh/m² in July across the year — January's 4.43 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.9
Level	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	4.2	Bright
2	4.2	Bright
3	4.2	Bright
4	4.2	Bright
5	4.2	Bright
6	4.2	Bright
7	4.2	Bright
8	4.3	Bright
9	4.3	Bright
10	4.3	Bright
11	4.3	Bright
12	4.3	Bright
13	4.3	Bright
14	4.4	Bright
15	4.4	Bright
16	4.4	Bright
17	4.4	Bright
18	4.5	Bright
19	4.5	Bright
20	4.5	Bright
21	4.5	Bright
22	4.6	Bright
23	4.6	Bright
24	4.6	Bright
25	4.7	Bright
26	4.7	Bright
27	4.7	Bright
28	4.8	Bright
29	4.8	Bright
30	4.8	Bright
31	4.9	Bright

Planning a trip in January

Hazard calendar for Ubari

In seasonPeak

None of Ubari's seasonal hazards are active in January. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

Ubari sees seasonal dust haze (March–October), heaviest in May.

Dust

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Is January a good time to visit Ubari?

Our two travel scores rate January for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

7.9

Sightseeing

5th-best month of the year

2.8

Beach & pool

12th-best month of the year

January is one of the better times to visit Ubari for general sightseeing.

What to pack for Ubari in January

From January's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In January, Ubari sees daytime highs around 18°C and nights near 5°C. Worth packing: a warm layer.

a warm layer

UV index in Ubari in January

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in January peaks around 5 — enough to warrant sun protection. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Ubari peaks around June 19 at about 12 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 5 (moderate).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	5	7	7	9	8	13	11	13	10	9	7	5
Level	Moderate	Very high	High	Very high	Very high	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Very high	High	Moderate

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	5	Moderate
Feb	7	Very high
Mar	7	High
Apr	9	Very high
May	8	Very high
Jun	13	Extreme
Jul	11	Extreme
Aug	13	Extreme
Sep	10	Very high
Oct	9	Very high
Nov	7	High
Dec	5	Moderate

Air quality in Ubari in January

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where January falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Ubari is worst in April — around 88 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.2× the cleanest month (November, 28 µg/m³).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
PM2.5 (µg/m³)	29	46	66	88	82	65	49	46	38	40	28	30
Level	Moderate	Poor	Unhealthy	Unhealthy	Unhealthy	Unhealthy	Poor	Poor	Poor	Poor	Moderate	Moderate

	PM2.5 (µg/m³)	Level
Jan	29	Moderate
Feb	46	Poor
Mar	66	Unhealthy
Apr	88	Unhealthy
May	82	Unhealthy
Jun	65	Unhealthy
Jul	49	Poor
Aug	46	Poor
Sep	38	Poor
Oct	40	Poor
Nov	28	Moderate
Dec	30	Moderate

Location & terrain

Where is Ubari?

Ubari sits at 26.6°N, 12.8°E, 468 m above sea level, in Libya. The nearest listed city is Al Ghurayfah, 25 km away.

Topography around Ubari

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ubari has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 226 m around an average of 468 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 267 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 498 m.

The land around Ubari is covered by bare terrain (77%) within 3 km, bare terrain (96%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (99%) within 80 km.

3 km

226 m

bare terrain 77%

16 km

267 m

bare terrain 96%

80 km

498 m

bare terrain 99%

treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain

← December Ubari year-round climate February →Best places to visit in January

January weather nearby: Al Ghurayfah 25 km · Wādī 'Utbah 95 km · Murzuk 136 km · Al Jadīd 169 km · Sabha 171 km · Brak 183 km · Hūn 420 km · Mizdah 541 km

Libya travel facts

Travel advisory: Level 4; Do Not Travel
Power plugs: Type C / F / L; 230 V · 50 Hz
Prices: ≈ 39% of US; price level, 2025
GDP per capita: $6,449; 2025
Happiness: 5.7 / 10; World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths: 21.3; per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group: Upper middle; World Bank
English: Very low; EF EPI 395
Religion

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 Ubari (26.5903°, 12.7751°, elevation 468 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. 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).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	5
2	18	5
3	18	5
4	18	5
5	18	5
6	18	5
7	18	5
8	18	5
9	18	5
10	18	5
11	18	5
12	18	5
13	18	5
14	18	5
15	18	5
16	18	5
17	18	5
18	18	5
19	18	5
20	18	5
21	18	6
22	19	6
23	19	6
24	19	6
25	19	6
26	19	6
27	19	6
28	19	6
29	19	6
30	19	6
31	19	6

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	84	16
2	83	17
3	83	17
4	83	17
5	83	17
6	82	18
7	82	18
8	81	19
9	81	19
10	80	20
11	79	21
12	80	20
13	80	20
14	79	21
15	79	21
16	79	21
17	78	22
18	78	22
19	79	21
20	79	21
21	79	21
22	80	20
23	80	20
24	80	20
25	81	19
26	81	19
27	82	18
28	82	18
29	82	18
30	83	17
31	83	17

	Rain chance (%)
1	0
2	1
3	1
4	1
5	1
6	1
7	1
8	1
9	1
10	2
11	2
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	3
17	3
18	3
19	3
20	3
21	3
22	3
23	2
24	2
25	2
26	2
27	2
28	2
29	2
30	1
31	1

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	5
2	18	5
3	18	5
4	18	5
5	18	5
6	18	5
7	18	5
8	18	5
9	18	5
10	18	5
11	18	5
12	18	5
13	18	5
14	18	5
15	18	5
16	18	5
17	18	5
18	18	5
19	18	5
20	18	5
21	18	6
22	19	6
23	19	6
24	19	6
25	19	6
26	19	6
27	19	6
28	19	6
29	19	6
30	19	6
31	19	6

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	84	16
2	83	17
3	83	17
4	83	17
5	83	17
6	82	18
7	82	18
8	81	19
9	81	19
10	80	20
11	79	21
12	80	20
13	80	20
14	79	21
15	79	21
16	79	21
17	78	22
18	78	22
19	79	21
20	79	21
21	79	21
22	80	20
23	80	20
24	80	20
25	81	19
26	81	19
27	82	18
28	82	18
29	82	18
30	83	17
31	83	17

	Rain chance (%)
1	0
2	1
3	1
4	1
5	1
6	1
7	1
8	1
9	1
10	2
11	2
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	3
17	3
18	3
19	3
20	3
21	3
22	3
23	2
24	2
25	2
26	2
27	2
28	2
29	2
30	1
31	1

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	18	5
2	18	5
3	18	5
4	18	5
5	18	5
6	18	5
7	18	5
8	18	5
9	18	5
10	18	5
11	18	5
12	18	5
13	18	5
14	18	5
15	18	5
16	18	5
17	18	5
18	18	5
19	18	5
20	18	5
21	18	6
22	19	6
23	19	6
24	19	6
25	19	6
26	19	6
27	19	6
28	19	6
29	19	6
30	19	6
31	19	6

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	84	16
2	83	17
3	83	17
4	83	17
5	83	17
6	82	18
7	82	18
8	81	19
9	81	19
10	80	20
11	79	21
12	80	20
13	80	20
14	79	21
15	79	21
16	79	21
17	78	22
18	78	22
19	79	21
20	79	21
21	79	21
22	80	20
23	80	20
24	80	20
25	81	19
26	81	19
27	82	18
28	82	18
29	82	18
30	83	17
31	83	17

	Rain chance (%)
1	0
2	1
3	1
4	1
5	1
6	1
7	1
8	1
9	1
10	2
11	2
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	3
17	3
18	3
19	3
20	3
21	3
22	3
23	2
24	2
25	2
26	2
27	2
28	2
29	2
30	1
31	1

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100