Climate and average weather in Liwá

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

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Liwá typically varies from 16°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 41°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jun
38°
Coldest
Jan
16°
Wettest
Mar
18 mm
Driest
Aug
1 mm
Rain / yr
87 mm
15 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
9 m
24.5°N
Clearest
Jun
8% cloud

Liwá 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 late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 5.2 months, from April 28 to October 2, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Liwá is June, with an average high of 38°C and low of 31°C.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from December 4 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 26°C. The coldest month of the year in Liwá is January, with an average low of 16°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2416
Feb2517
Mar2820
Apr3324
May3728
Jun3831
Jul3731
Aug3630
Sep3529
Oct3326
Nov2921
Dec2518

How hot and cold Liwá 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, Liwá feels like about 44°C (around July 19). About 197 days a year carry some heat stress, and 109 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241616
Feb25251717
Mar28282020
Apr32332424
May37372828
Jun41383131
Jul43373131
Aug43363030
Sep39352929
Oct34332626
Nov29292121
Dec25251818

Average hourly temperature in Liwá

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 June afternoons, near 38°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 16°C.

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

Liwá 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° / 16°132.110.68.9
Feb25° / 17°111.911.18.9
Mar28° / 20°182.611.87.7
Apr33° / 24°81.612.64.8
May37° / 28°20.813.22.1
Jun38° / 31°20.313.51.3
Jul37° / 31°40.213.41.8
Aug36° / 30°10.212.92.5
Sep35° / 29°10.212.23.3
Oct33° / 26°51.211.44.7
Nov29° / 21°91.710.87.6
Dec25° / 18°142.210.58.9

Chance of rain

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

Liwá gets about 87 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 18 mm over about 3 wet days; August is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainMar 7 · 9%Jun 29 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb62
Mar83
Apr52
May31
Jun10
Jul10
Aug10
Sep10
Oct41
Nov62
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Liwá collects about 87 mm of rain across 15 wet days — roughly 7 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 18 mm, while August is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1311188224115914
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan132
Feb112
Mar183
Apr82
May21
Jun20
Jul40
Aug10
Sep10
Oct51
Nov92
Dec142

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Liwá, 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 13 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around December 1. 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 2 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around May 8. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 19% 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 29 · 100%Mar 25 · 78%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8614
Feb8713
Mar8119
Apr8218
May946
Jun973
Jul9010
Aug928
Sep982
Oct982
Nov946
Dec8911

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 6, 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)
Jan10.67:045:42
Feb11.16:546:03
Mar11.86:296:18
Apr12.65:576:31
May13.25:346:46
Jun13.55:296:59
Jul13.45:387:01
Aug12.95:526:44
Sep12.26:046:12
Oct11.46:165:41
Nov10.86:355:23
Dec10.56:555:25

Sunny days

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

Liwá 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 3.5 months, from around Aug 14 to Nov 28. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 21 sunny days — about 26% fewer than the October peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 130 daysMar 2321 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar22Bright
Apr22Bright
May27Brilliant
Jun28Brilliant
Jul25Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct29Brilliant
Nov26Brilliant
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 Liwá, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around May 26 to November 16. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 17 to May 25, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 86% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 19 · 88%Aug 9 · 1%muggymiserablehumidoppressivecomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan622413100
Feb592215400
Mar5219171100
Apr4327171120
May2633211362
Jun81620201719
Jul249152049
Aug126132851
Sep4811193326
Oct11162626183
Nov1629322030
Dec383422600

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 Liwá is steady company: average speeds sit near 10 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMay 14 · 11 km/hNov 1 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Liwá

In seasonPeak

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

Liwá sits in the North Indian Ocean cyclone zone; the season peaks May and October–November.

Liwá sees seasonal dust haze (March–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Liwá

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Liwá 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 Liwá for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid November to late March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 3 · 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
Jan9.0ideal
Feb8.9ideal
Mar7.6ideal
Apr4.8fair
May2.2poor
Jun1.4poor
Jul1.8poor
Aug2.5poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct4.8fair
Nov7.5ideal
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 Liwá for hot-weather activities run from late January to late April and again from mid September to mid January, with a peak score in the second week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 12 · 9.0

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 Liwá, 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 June (highs near 38°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 June, Liwá sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 31°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Liwá

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

The sea offshore is warmest in July at about 32°C and coldest in February near 23°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan24Refreshing
Feb23Refreshing
Mar24Warm
Apr27Warm
May30Tropical
Jun32Tropical
Jul32Tropical
Aug32Tropical
Sep31Tropical
Oct30Tropical
Nov28Warm
Dec25Warm

UV index (midday) in Liwá 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 Liwá peaks around May 24 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeVery highHighMay 24UV 10Dec 17UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb8Very high
Mar9Very high
Apr8Very high
May10Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Liwá

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 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)
Jan50
Feb6.54
Mar74.5
Apr7.54.5
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul7.55
Aug85.5
Sep74
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.51
Dec4.50

Air quality in Liwá 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 Liwá is worst in July — around 81 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.8× the cleanest month (October, 44 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorJul 1679 µg/m³Oct 2444 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan51Poor
Feb50Poor
Mar58Unhealthy
Apr64Unhealthy
May70Unhealthy
Jun69Unhealthy
Jul81Unhealthy
Aug66Unhealthy
Sep50Poor
Oct44Poor
Nov44Poor
Dec44Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Liwá 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. Liwá banks about 6,557 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan304
Feb308
Mar430
Apr550
May701
Jun730
Jul752
Aug721
Sep656
Oct599
Nov450
Dec355

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.

Liwá receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 12 to Sep 28. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 43% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 217.6 kWhDec 194.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.6Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct5.6Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Liwá?

Liwá sits at 24.5°N, 56.6°E, 9 m above sea level, in Oman. The nearest listed city is Sohar, 25 km away.

KalbāŢarīf KalbāFujairahReef Al Fujairah City

Topography around Liwá

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Liwá has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 35 m around an average of 12 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 672 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,562 m.

The land around Liwá is covered by bare terrain (54%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, bare terrain (52%) and water (38%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (68%) and water (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
35 m
16 km
672 m
80 km
1,562 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Sohar 25 km · Shināş 25 km · Şaḩam 52 km · Hatta 53 km · Kalbā 62 km · Ţarīf Kalbā 64 km · Fujairah 69 km · Reef Al Fujairah City 75 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 Liwá (24.5308°, 56.563°, elevation 9 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). 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).