Climate and average weather in Rumāḩ

In Rumāḩ, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Rumāḩ typically varies from 9°C to 43°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 46°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 Rumāḩ for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jul
43°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
19 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
88 mm
16 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
565 m
25.6°N
Clearest
Sep
4% cloud

Rumāḩ 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 Rumāḩ, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.9 months, from May 8 to October 2, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Rumāḩ is July, with an average high of 43°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 25 to February 23, with daily high temperatures below 24°C. The coldest month of the year in Rumāḩ is January, with an average low of 9°C and high of 19°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan199
Feb2211
Mar2715
Apr3320
May3925
Jun4228
Jul4329
Aug4329
Sep4026
Oct3521
Nov2615
Dec2110

How hot and cold Rumāḩ 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, Rumāḩ feels like about 43°C (around July 24). About 199 days a year carry some heat stress, and 128 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)
Jan191969
Feb22221011
Mar27271515
Apr33332020
May39392525
Jun42422828
Jul43432929
Aug43432929
Sep40402526
Oct35352121
Nov26261515
Dec2121910

Average hourly temperature in Rumāḩ

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 43°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Rumāḩ 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
Jan19° / 152.910.67.8
Feb22° / 11°81.611.18.7
Mar27° / 15°142.611.88.0
Apr33° / 20°132.712.64.5
May39° / 25°40.513.21.0
Jun42° / 28°0013.60.0
Jul43° / 29°0013.40.0
Aug43° / 29°0012.90.0
Sep40° / 26°0012.20.4
Oct35° / 21°10.211.43.7
Nov26° / 15°192.910.88.0
Dec21° / 10°152.810.48.2

Chance of rain

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

Rumāḩ gets about 88 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 6.1 months, from around Nov 3 to May 6, peaking in November at about 13% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 27.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 19 mm over about 3 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainNov 27 · 13%May 27 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb62
Mar93
Apr93
May21
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov93
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Rumāḩ collects about 88 mm of rain across 16 wet days — roughly 7 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 19 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec15814134011915
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan153
Feb82
Mar143
Apr133
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov193
Dec153

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Rumāḩ, 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 20 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around November 6. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 7 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 23% 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 9 · 100%Apr 8 · 74%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb8515
Mar7921
Apr7723
May8713
Jun982
Jul964
Aug982
Sep991
Oct946
Nov8515
Dec8218

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 10, 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)
Jan10.66:445:18
Feb11.16:335:39
Mar11.86:075:55
Apr12.65:346:10
May13.25:106:25
Jun13.65:046:39
Jul13.45:136:41
Aug12.95:286:23
Sep12.25:415:50
Oct11.45:555:18
Nov10.86:154:59
Dec10.46:355:00

Sunny days

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

Rumāḩ averages about 24 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 5.6 months, from around May 22 to Nov 6. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 19 sunny days — about 36% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2130 daysApr 819 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr19Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct28Brilliant
Nov22Bright
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 Rumāḩ, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in November, 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 (%)
Jan9820
Feb9820
Mar9541
Apr9073
May9721
Jun10000
Jul9910
Aug9810
Sep9910
Oct9631
Nov8884
Dec9452

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 Rumāḩ is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Jan 23 to Aug 15. The windiest month is July, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 16 to Jan 22, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 11 · 16 km/hOct 6 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep12light breeze
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Rumāḩ

In seasonPeak

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

Rumāḩ sees seasonal dust haze (February–September), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Rumāḩ

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 25 · 9.0

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
Jan7.8ideal
Feb8.7ideal
Mar8.0ideal
Apr4.5fair
May1.0poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.5poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov7.9ideal
Dec8.1ideal

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 5 · 8.8

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 Rumāḩ, 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 43°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 19°C), pack a light layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Rumāḩ sees daytime highs around 43°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Rumāḩ 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 Rumāḩ peaks around July 18 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 18UV 11Dec 18UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5High
Feb7Very high
Mar8Very high
Apr8Very high
May10Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul12Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Rumāḩ

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 8.5 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)
Jan50
Feb63
Mar74
Apr74
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep7.55
Oct6.54
Nov50
Dec40

Air quality in Rumāḩ 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 Rumāḩ is worst in March — around 90 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.8× the cleanest month (October, 50 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyMar 2290 µg/m³Oct 1451 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan66Unhealthy
Feb72Unhealthy
Mar90Unhealthy
Apr87Unhealthy
May85Unhealthy
Jun76Unhealthy
Jul74Unhealthy
Aug66Unhealthy
Sep54Poor
Oct50Poor
Nov57Unhealthy
Dec61Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Rumāḩ 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
Jan990
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. Rumāḩ banks about 5,897 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)
Jan127
Feb183
Mar337
Apr490
May680
Jun747
Jul809
Aug801
Sep681
Oct547
Nov321
Dec174

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.

Rumāḩ receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 7.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 18 to Oct 4. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 48% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 77.8 kWhDec 214.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug7.4Intense
Sep6.7Intense
Oct5.8Bright
Nov4.6Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Rumāḩ?

Rumāḩ sits at 25.6°N, 47.2°E, 565 m above sea level, in Saudi Arabia. The nearest listed city is Riyadh, 107 km away.

Al KharjAd DilamShaqraḤawṭah Banī TamīmAl Mubarraz

Topography around Rumāḩ

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Rumāḩ has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m around an average of 560 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 85 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 434 m.

The land around Rumāḩ is covered by bare terrain (78%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, bare terrain (99%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (100%) within 80 km.

3 km
19 m
16 km
85 m
80 km
434 m
artificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Riyadh 107 km · Ad Dir‘īyah 110 km · ‘Irqah 113 km · Al Kharj 158 km · Ad Dilam 175 km · Shaqra 196 km · Ḥawṭah Banī Tamīm 232 km · Al Mubarraz 244 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 Rumāḩ (25.5639°, 47.1641°, elevation 565 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).