Climate and average weather in Ranyah

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

Best: mid November to late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ranyah typically varies from 11°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 6°C or above 44°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ranyah for warm-weather activities is from mid November to late February.

Hottest
Aug
41°
Coldest
Jan
11°
Wettest
Apr
13 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
39 mm
9 wet days
Daylight
10.7–13.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
920 m
21.3°N
Clearest
Oct
11% cloud

Ranyah 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 mid November to late February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.8 months, from May 6 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Ranyah is August, with an average high of 41°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 2.7 months, from November 27 to February 15, with daily high temperatures below 27°C. The coldest month of the year in Ranyah is January, with an average low of 11°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2411
Feb2714
Mar3117
Apr3521
May3925
Jun4127
Jul4128
Aug4128
Sep3925
Oct3419
Nov2915
Dec2512

How hot and cold Ranyah 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, Ranyah feels like about 42°C (around August 6). About 218 days a year carry some heat stress, and 120 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in August.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan24241111
Feb27271414
Mar31311717
Apr35352121
May39392525
Jun41412727
Jul41412828
Aug41412828
Sep39392525
Oct34341919
Nov29291515
Dec25251212

Average hourly temperature in Ranyah

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 11°C.

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

Ranyah 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° / 11°51.210.99.1
Feb27° / 14°40.711.38.4
Mar31° / 17°11211.85.7
Apr35° / 21°133.312.53.2
May39° / 25°30.8131.0
Jun41° / 27°0013.30.0
Jul41° / 28°0013.20.0
Aug41° / 28°00.112.70.0
Sep39° / 25°0012.10.8
Oct34° / 19°00.211.54.2
Nov29° / 15°20.5117.5
Dec25° / 12°20.610.79.1

Chance of rain

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

Ranyah gets about 39 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 2.3 months, from around Mar 4 to May 12, peaking in April at about 12% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 31.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 13 mm over about 3 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainApr 7 · 12%May 31 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan41
Feb21
Mar72
Apr113
May21
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov11
Dec21

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ranyah collects about 39 mm of rain across 9 wet days — roughly 3 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 13 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 73% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec541113300022
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan51
Feb41
Mar112
Apr133
May31
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov21
Dec21

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ranyah, 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 25 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around December 10. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 26 and lasts for 2.0 months, ending around August 24. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 15% 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 28 · 99%Jul 27 · 83%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudycloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8812
Feb937
Mar919
Apr9010
May9010
Jun937
Jul8515
Aug8713
Sep973
Oct955
Nov928
Dec919

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 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.96:535:43
Feb11.36:456:01
Mar11.86:236:14
Apr12.55:546:23
May13.05:356:35
Jun13.35:306:47
Jul13.25:396:50
Aug12.75:516:35
Sep12.15:596:07
Oct11.56:095:39
Nov11.06:255:23
Dec10.76:435:26

Sunny days

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

Ranyah averages about 24 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 18 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Sep 5 to Dec 31. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 20 sunny days — about 28% fewer than the October peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantOct 329 daysJul 3118 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb24Brilliant
Mar25Brilliant
Apr21Bright
May23Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul20Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep26Brilliant
Oct28Brilliant
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 Ranyah, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 4% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan98200
Feb99000
Mar94510
Apr88741
May96210
Jun100000
Jul98100
Aug98210
Sep100000
Oct98110
Nov95400
Dec98200

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 Ranyah is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.4 months, from around Jun 13 to Aug 24. The windiest month is July, averaging about 20 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 25 to Feb 20, with September the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 20 · 21 km/hSep 25 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul20breezy
Aug17light breeze
Sep11calm
Oct12light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Ranyah

In seasonPeak

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

Ranyah sees seasonal dust haze (February–September), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Ranyah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 27 · 9.3

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
Feb8.4ideal
Mar5.7good
Apr3.2poor
May1.0poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.9poor
Oct4.2fair
Nov7.4good
Dec9.1ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Ranyah for hot-weather activities is from mid October to early April, with a peak score in the second week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 14 · 9.2

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 Ranyah, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ranyah sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ranyah 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 Ranyah peaks around July 13 at about 12 (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 highHighJul 13UV 12Dec 16UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep10Very high
Oct10Very high
Nov7High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ranyah

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 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)
Jan63.5
Feb75
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May85.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct74.5
Nov62.5
Dec4.50

Air quality in Ranyah 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 Ranyah is worst in February — around 95 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.1× the cleanest month (October, 44 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyFeb 2094 µg/m³Oct 1145 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan86Unhealthy
Feb95Unhealthy
Mar93Unhealthy
Apr82Unhealthy
May67Unhealthy
Jun59Unhealthy
Jul72Unhealthy
Aug67Unhealthy
Sep48Poor
Oct44Poor
Nov65Unhealthy
Dec78Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ranyah 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. Ranyah banks about 6,226 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)
Jan238
Feb292
Mar439
Apr536
May672
Jun719
Jul770
Aug768
Sep652
Oct507
Nov363
Dec270

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.

Ranyah receives about 6.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Mar 11 to Oct 9. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is January, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 317.6 kWhJan 64.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.8Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar6.5Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.2Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep6.7Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov5.3Bright
Dec4.8Bright

Where is Ranyah?

Ranyah sits at 21.3°N, 42.8°E, 920 m above sea level, in Saudi Arabia. The nearest listed city is Al Khurmah, 112 km away.

TurabahQal‘at BīshahAl ‘AqīqAl BahahBaljurashiSabt AlalayahAn Nimas

Topography around Ranyah

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ranyah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 29 m around an average of 918 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 488 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 800 m.

The land around Ranyah is covered by bare terrain (78%) within 3 km, bare terrain (98%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (100%) within 80 km.

3 km
29 m
16 km
488 m
80 km
800 m
croplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Al Khurmah 112 km · Turabah 126 km · Qal‘at Bīshah 141 km · Al ‘Aqīq 163 km · Al Bahah 199 km · Baljurashi 205 km · Sabt Alalayah 208 km · An Nimas 246 km

Saudi Arabia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type G
230 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 47% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$34,537
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
0.9
per 100k, 2019
Road deaths
35.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 404

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 Ranyah (21.2504°, 42.8475°, elevation 920 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).