Climate and average weather in Turubah

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

Best: late January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Turubah typically varies from 6°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 1°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 times of year to visit Turubah for warm-weather activities are from late January to mid April and late October to late December.

Hottest
Aug
41°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
21 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
80 mm
16 wet days
Daylight
10.2–13.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
689 m
28.3°N
Clearest
Jun
4% cloud

Turubah 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 late January to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Turubah, 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 15 to October 6, with daily high temperatures above 35°C. The hottest month of the year in Turubah is August, with an average high of 41°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from November 24 to February 26, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Turubah is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 17°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°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan176
Feb197
Mar2412
Apr3017
May3622
Jun3925
Jul4127
Aug4127
Sep3924
Oct3319
Nov2412
Dec187

How hot and cold Turubah 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, Turubah feels like about 42°C (around August 17). About 176 days a year carry some heat stress, and 101 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)
Jan171736
Feb191957
Mar24241112
Apr30301717
May35362222
Jun39392525
Jul41412727
Aug41412727
Sep39392424
Oct33331919
Nov24241212
Dec181857

Average hourly temperature in Turubah

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 C.

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

Turubah 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
Jan17° / 122.210.46.7
Feb19° / 91.7117.9
Mar24° / 12°122.211.88.7
Apr30° / 17°112.212.76.6
May36° / 22°20.513.42.9
Jun39° / 25°0013.80.4
Jul41° / 27°0013.60.0
Aug41° / 27°00130.0
Sep39° / 24°0012.21.0
Oct33° / 19°30.411.34.8
Nov24° / 12°21410.68.1
Dec18° / 112.510.27.4

Chance of rain

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

Turubah gets about 80 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 6.2 months, from around Oct 26 to May 1, peaking in November at about 13% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 31.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 21 mm over about 4 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainNov 21 · 13%May 31 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan72
Feb62
Mar72
Apr72
May21
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct20
Nov124
Dec93

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Turubah collects about 80 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 21 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec129121120032111
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan122
Feb92
Mar122
Apr112
May21
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct30
Nov214
Dec113

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Turubah, 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 23 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around October 26. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 27 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 24% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 25 · 100%Jan 1 · 72%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb8020
Mar8218
Apr8218
May8515
Jun982
Jul991
Aug991
Sep982
Oct9010
Nov7921
Dec7624

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 11, brings about 13 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.47:065:29
Feb11.06:535:53
Mar11.86:246:12
Apr12.75:486:29
May13.45:236:47
Jun13.85:157:02
Jul13.65:257:03
Aug13.05:426:43
Sep12.25:586:08
Oct11.36:145:33
Nov10.66:365:11
Dec10.26:585:11

Sunny days

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

Turubah 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 5.0 months, from around May 26 to Oct 24. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 20 sunny days — about 30% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2830 daysJan 119 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr21Bright
May23Bright
Jun29Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct26Brilliant
Nov20Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Turubah, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in November, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% 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 (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar9910
Apr9640
May9810
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep10000
Oct9721
Nov9182
Dec9820

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

The windier part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Feb 2 to Aug 7. The windiest month is April, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 8 to Feb 1, with August the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 1 · 16 km/hAug 31 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Turubah

In seasonPeak

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

Turubah sees seasonal dust haze (March–September), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Turubah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early February, Turubah 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 times of year to visit Turubah for general outdoor tourist activities run from late January to mid April and again from late October to late December, with a peak score in the third week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 18 · 8.8

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
Jan6.8good
Feb7.9ideal
Mar8.6ideal
Apr6.5good
May2.9poor
Jun0.4poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep1.0poor
Oct4.8fair
Nov8.0ideal
Dec7.4good

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 Turubah for hot-weather activities run from mid March to mid May and again from early October to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 26 · 8.7

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 Turubah, 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 17°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Turubah sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Turubah 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 Turubah peaks around July 17 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 23 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highHighVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 11Dec 23UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb7High
Mar8Very high
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep10Very high
Oct7Very high
Nov5High
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Turubah

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 6.5 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)
Jan40
Feb62.5
Mar6.53.5
Apr60
May7.54
Jun8.56
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep7.55
Oct63
Nov4.50
Dec40

Air quality in Turubah 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 Turubah is worst in March — around 79 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.7× the cleanest month (September, 46 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorMar 2278 µg/m³Sep 1146 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan50Poor
Feb57Unhealthy
Mar79Unhealthy
Apr75Unhealthy
May75Unhealthy
Jun55Unhealthy
Jul48Poor
Aug47Poor
Sep46Poor
Oct53Poor
Nov47Poor
Dec46Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Turubah 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
Jan950
Feb970
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec980

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. Turubah banks about 4,964 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan35
Feb93
Mar238
Apr396
May582
Jun669
Jul735
Aug748
Sep645
Oct499
Nov239
Dec86

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.

Turubah receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.7 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 28. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 52% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 158.0 kWhDec 233.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.1Bright
Feb5.1Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May7.7Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.5Intense
Sep6.6Intense
Oct5.5Bright
Nov4.2Bright
Dec3.7Moderate

Where is Turubah?

Turubah sits at 28.3°N, 42.9°E, 689 m above sea level, in Saudi Arabia. The nearest listed city is Baq‘ā’, 66 km away.

Ha'il‘Uyūn al Jiwā’BuraydahAl BukayrīyahRiyāḑ al Khabrā’Al Khabrā’King Khalid Military City

Topography around Turubah

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Turubah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 52 m around an average of 702 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 91 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 272 m.

The land around Turubah is covered by bare terrain (90%) within 3 km, bare terrain (99%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (99%) within 80 km.

3 km
52 m
16 km
91 m
80 km
272 m
croplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Baq‘ā’ 66 km · Ha'il 146 km · ‘Uyūn al Jiwā’ 208 km · Buraydah 239 km · Al Bukayrīyah 247 km · Riyāḑ al Khabrā’ 252 km · Al Khabrā’ 253 km · King Khalid Military City 261 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 Turubah (28.2585°, 42.9246°, elevation 689 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).