Climate and average weather in Buraimi

In Buraimi, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Buraimi typically varies from 14°C to 42°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 45°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Buraimi for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and late November to late December.

Hottest
Jul
42°
Coldest
Jan
14°
Wettest
Mar
14 mm
Driest
Oct
0 mm
Rain / yr
50 mm
9 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
297 m
24.3°N
Clearest
Oct
8% cloud

Buraimi is place in Al Buraimi, Oman.

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

Buraimi 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.0 months, from May 4 to October 2, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Buraimi is July, with an average high of 42°C and low of 31°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from December 5 to February 26, with daily high temperatures below 27°C. The coldest month of the year in Buraimi is January, with an average low of 14°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2414
Feb2615
Mar3018
Apr3422
May3926
Jun4229
Jul4231
Aug4231
Sep4028
Oct3624
Nov3019
Dec2616

How hot and cold Buraimi 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, Buraimi feels like about 44°C (around July 19). About 220 days a year carry some heat stress, and 131 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241414
Feb26261515
Mar30301818
Apr34342222
May39392626
Jun42422929
Jul44423131
Aug43423131
Sep40402828
Oct36362424
Nov30301919
Dec26261616

Average hourly temperature in Buraimi

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 July afternoons, near 42°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 14°C.

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

Buraimi 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
Jan24° / 14°101.510.79.1
Feb26° / 15°71.311.28.9
Mar30° / 18°141.911.86.8
Apr34° / 22°6112.53.7
May39° / 26°10.113.20.7
Jun42° / 29°10.413.50.0
Jul42° / 31°30.813.30.0
Aug42° / 31°31.212.80.0
Sep40° / 28°10.312.20.5
Oct36° / 24°00.211.43.1
Nov30° / 19°20.110.86.8
Dec26° / 16°40.610.59.0

Chance of rain

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

Buraimi gets about 50 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 14 mm over about 2 wet days; October is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainMar 15 · 6%May 15 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan52
Feb41
Mar62
Apr31
May10
Jun10
Jul31
Aug41
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec21

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Buraimi collects about 50 mm of rain across 9 wet days — roughly 4 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 14 mm, while October is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 59% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10714611331024
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan102
Feb71
Mar142
Apr61
May10
Jun10
Jul31
Aug31
Sep10
Oct00
Nov20
Dec41

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Buraimi, 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 August 15 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around December 4. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 98% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 27 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around May 8. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 18% 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 30 · 99%Mar 24 · 80%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb8812
Mar8218
Apr8218
May937
Jun964
Jul8812
Aug919
Sep982
Oct973
Nov955
Dec9010

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 9, brings about 13 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 3 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.77:075:46
Feb11.26:576:06
Mar11.86:326:21
Apr12.56:006:34
May13.25:386:48
Jun13.55:327:02
Jul13.35:417:03
Aug12.85:556:46
Sep12.26:076:15
Oct11.46:195:45
Nov10.86:385:26
Dec10.56:585:28

Sunny days

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

Buraimi averages about 25 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 21 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Aug 19 to Dec 6. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 22 sunny days — about 25% fewer than the October peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 230 daysMar 2421 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar22Bright
Apr22Bright
May28Brilliant
Jun28Brilliant
Jul24Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep28Brilliant
Oct29Brilliant
Nov27Brilliant
Dec25Brilliant

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 Buraimi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around June 4 to October 15. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 67% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 16 to June 3, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 5 · 99%Aug 12 · 32%oppressivecomfortablemuggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan88102000
Feb9082000
Mar85114000
Apr86103100
May76175100
Jun4322191330
Jul19182326121
Aug14202926101
Sep2623301820
Oct502519610
Nov563113100
Dec72243000

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.

Wind in Buraimi is steady company: average speeds sit near 13 km/hlight breeze — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 25 · 14 km/hNov 8 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug12light breeze
Sep12light breeze
Oct12calm
Nov11calm
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Buraimi

In seasonPeak

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

Buraimi sees seasonal dust haze (March–September), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Buraimi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Buraimi is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Buraimi for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 9.2

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
Jan9.1ideal
Feb8.8ideal
Mar6.8good
Apr3.6fair
May0.7poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.5poor
Oct3.1poor
Nov6.8good
Dec8.9ideal

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 Buraimi for hot-weather activities run from late January to mid April and again from late October to mid January, with a peak score in the third week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 21 · 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 Buraimi, 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 July (highs near 42°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Buraimi sees daytime highs around 42°C and nights near 31°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Buraimi 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 Buraimi peaks around May 22 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 5 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highHighMay 22UV 11Dec 16UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb9Very high
Mar9Very high
Apr9Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep9Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Buraimi

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 May the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan5.52
Feb74.5
Mar74.5
Apr7.54.5
May8.56
Jun8.56
Jul85.5
Aug7.55
Sep74.5
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.50.5
Dec4.50

Air quality in Buraimi 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 Buraimi is worst in July — around 98 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 46 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorJul 1997 µg/m³Dec 1146 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan49Poor
Feb57Unhealthy
Mar66Unhealthy
Apr71Unhealthy
May77Unhealthy
Jun81Unhealthy
Jul98Unhealthy
Aug88Unhealthy
Sep69Unhealthy
Oct54Poor
Nov46Poor
Dec46Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Buraimi 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. Buraimi banks about 6,734 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan268
Feb288
Mar427
Apr551
May706
Jun756
Jul821
Aug816
Sep714
Oct613
Nov442
Dec332

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.

Buraimi receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.3 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 12 to Sep 29. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 207.7 kWhDec 204.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May7.7Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul6.9Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct5.8Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec4.3Bright

Where is Buraimi?

Buraimi sits at 24.3°N, 55.8°E, 297 m above sea level, in Oman. The nearest listed city is Al Ain, 7.0 km away.

HattaLiwáShināşLahbabSoharDubaiDubai Silicon Oasis

Topography around Buraimi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Buraimi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 43 m around an average of 299 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 485 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,535 m.

The land around Buraimi is covered by artificial surfaces (55%) and bare terrain (37%) within 3 km, bare terrain (74%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (98%) within 80 km.

3 km
43 m
16 km
485 m
80 km
1,535 m
treesshrubscroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Al Ain 7.0 km · Hatta 70 km · Liwá 84 km · Shināş 87 km · Lahbab 90 km · Sohar 93 km · Dubai 104 km · Dubai Silicon Oasis 105 km

Oman travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 47% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$19,947
2025
Happiness
6.2 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
91%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.1
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
10.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 407
Religion
Muslim 86%Christian 6%Hindu 6%other and unaffiliated 2%

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 Buraimi (24.2509°, 55.7931°, elevation 297 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).