Climate and average weather in Umluj

In Umluj, the summers are muggy, hot, dry, and clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: early January to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Umluj typically varies from 19°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 34°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 Umluj for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid May and late October to late December.

Hottest
Aug
32°
Coldest
Jan
19°
Wettest
Nov
11 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
42 mm
7 wet days
Daylight
10.4–13.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
4 m
25.0°N
Clearest
Jun
3% cloud

Umluj is human settlement in Saudi Arabia.

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

Umluj 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 May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Umluj, 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 25 to October 21, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Umluj is August, with an average high of 32°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from December 16 to March 21, with daily high temperatures below 25°C. The coldest month of the year in Umluj is January, with an average low of 19°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2319
Feb2319
Mar2521
Apr2723
May2926
Jun3027
Jul3129
Aug3229
Sep3128
Oct3027
Nov2724
Dec2521

How hot and cold Umluj 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, Umluj feels like about 37°C (around August 15). About 143 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan23231919
Feb23231919
Mar24252121
Apr27272323
May30292626
Jun33302727
Jul36312929
Aug37322929
Sep36312828
Oct32302727
Nov28272424
Dec25252121

Average hourly temperature in Umluj

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 19°C.

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

Umluj 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
Jan23° / 19°111.810.68.8
Feb23° / 19°40.911.19.1
Mar25° / 21°20.611.89.4
Apr27° / 23°0012.68.9
May29° / 26°0013.27.6
Jun30° / 27°0013.56.7
Jul31° / 29°0013.46.0
Aug32° / 29°0012.95.8
Sep31° / 28°0012.26.3
Oct30° / 27°30.411.46.9
Nov27° / 24°111.310.88.4
Dec25° / 21°101.510.59.0

Chance of rain

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

Umluj gets about 42 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.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 11 mm over about 1 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainJan 1 · 7%Apr 12 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb31
Mar11
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct10
Nov41
Dec52

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Umluj collects about 42 mm of rain across 7 wet days — roughly 3 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 11 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 78% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec11420031110
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan112
Feb41
Mar21
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct30
Nov111
Dec102

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Umluj, 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 25 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around November 12. 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 13 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around May 24. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 16% 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 4 · 100%Jan 2 · 81%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8416
Feb8614
Mar8713
Apr8911
May919
Jun982
Jul991
Aug991
Sep991
Oct946
Nov9010
Dec8515

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 18, brings about 13 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 17, 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)
Jan10.67:225:58
Feb11.17:126:19
Mar11.86:466:35
Apr12.66:146:49
May13.25:517:04
Jun13.55:457:18
Jul13.45:547:19
Aug12.96:097:01
Sep12.26:216:30
Oct11.46:345:58
Nov10.86:535:39
Dec10.57:145:41

Sunny days

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

Umluj averages about 26 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 5.7 months, from around May 23 to Nov 11. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

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

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 1430 daysJan 121 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar25Brilliant
Apr25Brilliant
May27Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug30Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct28Brilliant
Nov25Brilliant
Dec23Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around April 15 to November 14. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 15 to April 14, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 87% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 17 · 89%Jun 8 · 0%miserablecomfortableoppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan68199400
Feb602113600
Mar333126910
Apr922363040
May042156180
Jun00340552
Jul00077618
Aug00026038
Sep000106821
Oct021133486
Nov1123332570
Dec503014610

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 Umluj is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Dec 2 to Apr 22. The windiest month is February, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 13 to Sep 2, with July the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyFeb 15 · 18 km/hJul 18 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar18light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul13light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Hazard calendar for Umluj

In seasonPeak

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

Umluj sees seasonal dust haze (April–June), heaviest in May.

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

Best time to visit Umluj

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Umluj 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 Umluj for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid May, with a peak score in the first week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 4 · 9.4

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
Jan8.9ideal
Feb9.1ideal
Mar9.3ideal
Apr8.9ideal
May7.6ideal
Jun6.7good
Jul6.1good
Aug5.8good
Sep6.3good
Oct7.0good
Nov8.4ideal
Dec9.0ideal

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 Umluj for hot-weather activities is from late February to late December, with a peak score in the third week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 18 · 9.4

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 Umluj, 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 32°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 23°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Umluj sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Umluj

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

The sea at the nearest coast (about 18 km away) is warmest in August at about 30°C and coldest in February near 24°C.

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

22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan25Warm
Feb24Refreshing
Mar24Refreshing
Apr25Warm
May27Warm
Jun28Tropical
Jul30Tropical
Aug30Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov28Warm
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Umluj 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 Umluj peaks around June 11 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highHighModerateJun 11UV 11Dec 19UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan5Moderate
Feb7Very high
Mar10Very high
Apr9Very high
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep10Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec4Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Umluj

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 June 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)
Jan4.50
Feb63
Mar75
Apr7.55
May86
Jun8.56
Jul85.5
Aug85.5
Sep7.55
Oct6.53.5
Nov5.50
Dec40

Air quality in Umluj 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 Umluj is worst in April — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (November, 16 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1431 µg/m³Nov 1317 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar29Moderate
Apr31Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec22Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Umluj 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. Umluj banks about 5,886 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan341
Feb317
Mar395
Apr450
May541
Jun568
Jul618
Aug633
Sep591
Oct571
Nov469
Dec394

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.

Umluj receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Mar 10 to Sep 24. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 45% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 87.7 kWhDec 274.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.4Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun7.7Intense
Jul7.4Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep6.4Intense
Oct5.6Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Umluj?

Umluj sits at 25.0°N, 37.3°E, 4 m above sea level, in Saudi Arabia. The nearest listed city is Yanbu, 131 km away.

YanbuAl WajhAl UlaBadr ḨunaynMarsa AlamSulţānahMedinaDuba

Topography around Umluj

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Umluj has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 138 m around an average of 25 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 291 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,860 m.

The land around Umluj is covered by water (43%) and bare terrain (40%) within 3 km, bare terrain (50%) and water (48%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (61%) and water (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
138 m
16 km
291 m
80 km
1,860 m
shrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Yanbu 131 km · Al Wajh 157 km · Al Ula 188 km · Badr Ḩunayn 207 km · Marsa Alam 240 km · Sulţānah 241 km · Medina 245 km · Duba 303 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 Umluj (25.0213°, 37.2685°, elevation 4 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. 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).