Climate and average weather in Dhabad

In Dhabad, the weather is sweltering, showery, and clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: mid October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dhabad typically varies from 20°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 36°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
35°
Coldest
Nov
22°
Wettest
Apr
49 mm
Driest
Feb
0 mm
Rain / yr
179 mm
33 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
358 m
6.4°N
Clearest
Jan
25% cloud

Dhabad 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 October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dhabad stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 35°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 22°C and high of 32°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3320
Feb3320
Mar3522
Apr3424
May3324
Jun3324
Jul3323
Aug3323
Sep3423
Oct3223
Nov3222
Dec3221

How hot and cold Dhabad 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, Dhabad feels like about 36°C (around May 2). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32332020
Feb33332020
Mar35352222
Apr36342424
May36332424
Jun34332424
Jul33332323
Aug33332323
Sep34342323
Oct34322323
Nov32322222
Dec32322121

Average hourly temperature in Dhabad

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 March afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 22°C.

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

Dhabad 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
Jan33° / 20°0011.75.0
Feb33° / 20°0011.84.4
Mar35° / 22°40.7123.5
Apr34° / 24°498.112.13.2
May33° / 24°428.212.33.5
Jun33° / 24°20.212.43.9
Jul33° / 23°00.112.34.3
Aug33° / 23°00.112.24.0
Sep34° / 23°50.8123.6
Oct32° / 23°459.211.94.1
Nov32° / 22°27511.74.8
Dec32° / 21°50.911.65.0

Chance of rain

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

Dhabad gets about 179 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 1.8 months, from around Apr 5 to May 28, peaking in April at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 10.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 49 mm over about 8 wet days; February is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 30 · 45%Jan 10 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar31
Apr268
May268
Jun10
Jul00
Aug00
Sep31
Oct289
Nov175
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dhabad collects about 179 mm of rain across 33 wet days — roughly 15 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 49 mm, while February is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 76% of the year’s total.

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Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar41
Apr498
May428
Jun20
Jul00
Aug00
Sep51
Oct459
Nov275
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dhabad, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around September 4 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around April 20. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 21 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around September 3. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 20 · 88%Jul 14 · 27%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb8416
Mar8713
Apr7327
May6040
Jun4060
Jul3070
Aug4753
Sep7723
Oct7525
Nov8119
Dec8614

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 3, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.76:145:53
Feb11.86:156:02
Mar12.06:056:02
Apr12.15:505:59
May12.35:425:59
Jun12.45:436:06
Jul12.35:506:10
Aug12.25:526:05
Sep12.05:475:50
Oct11.95:445:35
Nov11.75:485:30
Dec11.66:015:39

Sunny days

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

Dhabad averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.5 months, from around Nov 2 to Apr 17. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 5 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the March peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 123 daysJul 154 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar23Bright
Apr16Bright
May12Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov18Bright
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 Dhabad, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around March 15 to June 23. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 96% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 1 to March 14, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 77% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 5 · 81%May 5 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan34442030
Feb28482130
Mar123041152
Apr18333226
May04234034
Jun03256101
Jul3673000
Aug5682610
Sep2424681
Oct16334614
Nov1018283310
Dec28382491

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 Dhabad is typically light breeze, near 18 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around May 23 to Sep 25. The windiest month is July, averaging about 28 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 26 to May 22, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezywindyJul 16 · 28 km/hOct 28 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan18light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun25breezy
Jul28breezy
Aug26breezy
Sep21breezy
Oct12calm
Nov12light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Dhabad

In seasonPeak

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

Dhabad sees seasonal dust haze (July), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Dhabad

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Dhabad 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 Dhabad for general outdoor tourist activities run from late June to mid August and again from mid October to late February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 5.1

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
Jan5.0fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar3.5fair
Apr3.2poor
May3.5fair
Jun3.9fair
Jul4.3fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct4.1fair
Nov4.8fair
Dec5.0fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 7 · 8.4

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 Dhabad, 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.

Dhabad packs about the same all year — highs hold near 35°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Dhabad sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Dhabad 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 Dhabad peaks around March 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near November 22 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 19UV 14Nov 22UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dhabad

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 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)
Jan7.56
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov7.55
Dec7.55

Air quality in Dhabad 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 Dhabad is worst in July — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.3× the cleanest month (May, 11 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateModerateJul 1724 µg/m³May 1111 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr12Moderate
May11Good
Jun20Moderate
Jul25Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep17Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov13Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dhabad 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. Dhabad banks about 6,477 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan503
Feb470
Mar565
Apr563
May579
Jun559
Jul555
Aug562
Sep562
Oct544
Nov502
Dec513

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.

Dhabad receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Dec 7 to Apr 23. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 27.1 kWhJun 245.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.5Intense
Feb7.0Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May5.7Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep6.2Intense
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Dhabad?

Dhabad sits at 6.4°N, 46.5°E, 358 m above sea level, in Somalia. The nearest listed city is Qorof, 17 km away.

Topography around Dhabad

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dhabad has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 13 m around an average of 366 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 54 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 312 m.

The land around Dhabad is covered by shrubs (82%) within 3 km, shrubs (69%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and shrubs (73%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
13 m
16 km
54 m
80 km
312 m
shrubsgrasslandbare terrain
Nearby: Qorof 17 km · Cabudwaaq 33 km · Digih Habar Es 53 km · Saaxo 53 km · Waal 57 km · Yamarugley 59 km · Raqo 67 km · Golwayn 70 km

Somalia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / G
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 52% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$661
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths
27.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 399
Religion
Muslim 100%ethnic religionist 0%

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 Dhabad (6.4317°, 46.4619°, elevation 358 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).