Climate and average weather in Ad-Damazin

In Ad-Damazin, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: late July to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ad-Damazin typically varies from 21°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 42°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Ad-Damazin for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and late July to late September.

Hottest
Apr
40°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
143 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
533 mm
102 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
485 m
11.8°N
Clearest
Dec
18% cloud

Ad-Damazin is capital of the Blue Nile state of Sudan.

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

Ad-Damazin 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 July to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from February 24 to May 17, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Ad-Damazin is April, with an average high of 40°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 2.2 months, from July 13 to September 18, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Ad-Damazin is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3521
Feb3722
Mar3925
Apr4027
May3827
Jun3525
Jul3224
Aug3123
Sep3223
Oct3424
Nov3624
Dec3522

How hot and cold Ad-Damazin 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, Ad-Damazin feels like about 40°C (around April 5). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 66 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35352121
Feb37372222
Mar39392525
Apr40402727
May39382727
Jun37352525
Jul35322424
Aug34312323
Sep36322323
Oct37342424
Nov36362424
Dec35352222

Average hourly temperature in Ad-Damazin

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 April afternoons, near 40°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Ad-Damazin 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
Jan35° / 21°0011.43.7
Feb37° / 22°0011.62.2
Mar39° / 25°20.411.90.7
Apr40° / 27°92.512.30.2
May38° / 27°4411.112.51.2
Jun35° / 25°6715.312.72.2
Jul32° / 24°10119.512.63.0
Aug31° / 23°1432212.43.3
Sep32° / 23°1041612.13.4
Oct34° / 24°6013.711.72.8
Nov36° / 24°3111.52.5
Dec35° / 22°0011.33.4

Chance of rain

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

Ad-Damazin gets about 533 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around May 8 to Oct 27, peaking in August at about 72% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 143 mm over about 22 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 8 · 72%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr93
May3511
Jun5115
Jul6320
Aug7122
Sep5416
Oct4214
Nov51
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ad-Damazin collects about 533 mm of rain across 102 wet days — roughly 44 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 143 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 65% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec294467101143104603
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr93
May4411
Jun6715
Jul10120
Aug14322
Sep10416
Oct6014
Nov31
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ad-Damazin, 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 October 19 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around May 14. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 90% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 15 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around October 18. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 65% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 17 · 91%Aug 5 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8515
Mar8416
Apr8020
May6931
Jun5644
Jul3664
Aug3565
Sep5941
Oct7129
Nov8911
Dec9010

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 4, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.47:116:33
Feb11.67:096:45
Mar11.96:556:50
Apr12.36:356:51
May12.56:236:55
Jun12.76:227:03
Jul12.66:297:07
Aug12.46:356:58
Sep12.16:356:39
Oct11.76:366:20
Nov11.56:446:11
Dec11.36:596:18

Sunny days

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

Ad-Damazin averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.6 months, from around Oct 22 to May 9. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 3 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2425 daysAug 32 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr19Bright
May14Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct15Mixed
Nov24Brilliant
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 Ad-Damazin, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around April 29 to November 5. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 6 to April 28, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 22 · 100%Jun 20 · 0%comfortableoppressivedrymuggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan991000
Feb991000
Mar943210
Apr571218111
May119274112
Jun01127017
Jul0056728
Aug0002872
Sep0012674
Oct3284047
Nov571510143
Dec964000

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 Ad-Damazin is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around Apr 8 to Jul 28. The windiest month is June, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 29 to Dec 10, with September the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 16 · 13 km/hSep 16 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May12light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12calm
Aug10calm
Sep8calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Ad-Damazin

In seasonPeak

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

Ad-Damazin's rainy season runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Ad-Damazin sees seasonal dust haze (April), heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Ad-Damazin

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early August, Ad-Damazin 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 Ad-Damazin for general outdoor tourist activities run from late July to late September and again from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 9 · 3.9

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb2.2poor
Mar0.7poor
Apr0.2poor
May1.2poor
Jun2.2poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct2.8poor
Nov2.5poor
Dec3.4poor

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 Ad-Damazin for hot-weather activities is from late November to early February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 9 · 7.8

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 Ad-Damazin, 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 April (highs near 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 31°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Ad-Damazin sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Ad-Damazin 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 Ad-Damazin peaks around March 19 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 19UV 13Dec 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ad-Damazin

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 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)
Jan75
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug8.56.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54.5

Air quality in Ad-Damazin 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 Ad-Damazin is worst in March — around 30 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.1× the cleanest month (August, 14 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1829 µg/m³Aug 2314 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar30Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct16Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ad-Damazin 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. Ad-Damazin banks about 7,108 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)
Jan546
Feb546
Mar678
Apr697
May686
Jun597
Jul553
Aug521
Sep531
Oct588
Nov595
Dec571

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.

Ad-Damazin receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jan 15 to May 28. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 317.2 kWhJul 305.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.0Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Ad-Damazin?

Ad-Damazin sits at 11.8°N, 34.4°E, 485 m above sea level, in Sudan. The nearest listed city is Er Roseires, 9.0 km away.

SingaAd-DindarAs SūkīUmm ShawkahAl ḨawātahĀsosaMaiurno

Topography around Ad-Damazin

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ad-Damazin has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 43 m around an average of 480 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 206 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 788 m.

The land around Ad-Damazin is covered by grassland (45%) and artificial surfaces (30%) within 3 km, grassland (44%) and water (26%) within 16 km, and grassland (55%) and cropland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
43 m
16 km
206 m
80 km
788 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Er Roseires 9.0 km · Singa 158 km · Ad-Dindar 174 km · As Sūkī 178 km · Umm Shawkah 182 km · Al Ḩawātah 183 km · Āsosa 192 km · Maiurno 196 km

Sudan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / D / F / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 215% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,165
2025
Happiness
4.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2017
Homicide rate
5.1
per 100k, 2008
Road deaths
26.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 421

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 Ad-Damazin (11.7891°, 34.3592°, elevation 485 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).