Climate and average weather in Al Ḩawātah

In Al Ḩawātah, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are hot and partly cloudy.

Best: late July to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Al Ḩawātah typically varies from 21°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 44°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 Al Ḩawātah for warm-weather activities are from late July to late September and mid December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
41°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
129 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
393 mm
74 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
445 m
13.4°N
Clearest
Dec
17% cloud

Al Ḩawātah is city of the state of Gedaref, Sudan.

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

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

The hot season lasts 2.9 months, from March 5 to June 1, with daily high temperatures above 39°C. The hottest month of the year in Al Ḩawātah is April, with an average high of 41°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 1.8 months, from July 21 to September 14, with daily high temperatures below 33°C. The coldest month of the year in Al Ḩawātah is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 32°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3521
Feb3722
Mar4025
Apr4127
May4028
Jun3826
Jul3424
Aug3223
Sep3424
Oct3725
Nov3824
Dec3622

How hot and cold Al Ḩawātah 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, Al Ḩawātah feels like about 42°C (around April 15). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 116 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35352021
Feb37372222
Mar40402525
Apr41412727
May41402828
Jun40382626
Jul37342424
Aug35322323
Sep37342424
Oct38372525
Nov38382424
Dec36362222

Average hourly temperature in Al Ḩawātah

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Al Ḩawātah 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°0011.33.3
Feb37° / 22°0011.61.9
Mar40° / 25°10.211.90.2
Apr41° / 27°30.812.30.0
May40° / 28°23612.60.1
Jun38° / 26°421012.81.0
Jul34° / 24°10718.412.72.4
Aug32° / 23°12919.312.43.2
Sep34° / 24°6211.912.13.0
Oct37° / 25°277.211.72.0
Nov38° / 24°10.211.41.7
Dec36° / 22°0011.22.8

Chance of rain

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

Al Ḩawātah gets about 393 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 5.1 months, from around May 20 to Oct 20, peaking in August at about 64% 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 129 mm over about 19 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 11 · 64%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr41
May186
Jun3510
Jul5818
Aug6119
Sep4112
Oct227
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Al Ḩawātah collects about 393 mm of rain across 74 wet days — roughly 33 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 129 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 76% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13234210712962271
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr31
May236
Jun4210
Jul10718
Aug12919
Sep6212
Oct277
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Al Ḩawātah, 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 24 and lasts for 8.3 months, ending around June 3. The clearest month is November, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 4 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around September 23. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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 13 · 94%Aug 7 · 30%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8812
Mar8911
Apr8812
May8020
Jun6931
Jul4555
Aug3664
Sep6634
Oct8317
Nov928
Dec8911

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

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.37:126:29
Feb11.67:096:43
Mar11.96:546:48
Apr12.36:336:51
May12.66:196:56
Jun12.86:187:05
Jul12.76:257:09
Aug12.46:326:59
Sep12.16:346:38
Oct11.76:366:17
Nov11.46:466:08
Dec11.27:016:14

Sunny days

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

Al Ḩawātah averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.5 months, from around Oct 6 to May 21. The sunniest month is November, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 86% fewer than the November peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantNov 1427 daysAug 83 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb22Brilliant
Mar24Brilliant
Apr23Brilliant
May19Bright
Jun12Mixed
Jul5Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep12Mixed
Oct20Bright
Nov25Brilliant
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 Al Ḩawātah, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around May 16 to October 29. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 30 to May 15, 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 23 · 100%Jul 16 · 0%oppressivemuggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan982000
Feb1000000
Mar981100
Apr839710
May351727174
Jun2439478
Jul00116029
Aug0012574
Sep0143363
Oct1110184318
Nov7812631
Dec982000

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 Al Ḩawātah is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Nov 26 to Apr 11. The windiest month is February, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 3 to Nov 25, with October the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 17 · 14 km/hOct 19 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug11calm
Sep9calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Al Ḩawātah

In seasonPeak

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

Al Ḩawātah sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Al Ḩawātah

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early August, Al Ḩawātah 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 Al Ḩawātah 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 10 · 3.5

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
Jan3.3poor
Feb1.9poor
Mar0.3poor
Apr0.0poor
May0.1poor
Jun1.0poor
Jul2.4poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct2.0poor
Nov1.7poor
Dec2.8poor

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 Al Ḩawātah for hot-weather activities is from early December to early February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 11 · 7.4

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 Al Ḩawātah, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 32°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Al Ḩawātah sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Al Ḩawātah 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 Al Ḩawātah peaks around March 24 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highMar 24UV 13Dec 11UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Al Ḩawātah

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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86.5
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul7.55
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Al Ḩawātah 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 Al Ḩawātah is worst in March — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (November, 16 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 2134 µg/m³Nov 1216 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb30Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr33Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov16Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Al Ḩawātah 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. Al Ḩawātah banks about 7,467 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,0008,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan551
Feb550
Mar688
Apr727
May746
Jun664
Jul595
Aug541
Sep561
Oct638
Nov624
Dec582

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.

Al Ḩawātah receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.1 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.5 months, from around Jan 28 to Jun 13. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 67.3 kWhAug 65.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.5Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May6.7Intense
Jun6.1Intense
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.9Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Al Ḩawātah?

Al Ḩawātah sits at 13.4°N, 34.6°E, 445 m above sea level, in Sudan. The nearest listed city is Ad-Dindar, 59 km away.

MaiurnoAl QadarifSennar

Topography around Al Ḩawātah

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Al Ḩawātah has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 12 m around an average of 442 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 32 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 343 m.

The land around Al Ḩawātah is covered by cropland (55%) and grassland (29%) within 3 km, cropland (81%) within 16 km, and cropland (79%) within 80 km.

3 km
12 m
16 km
32 m
80 km
343 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwetland
Nearby: Ad-Dindar 59 km · Singa 82 km · As Sūkī 82 km · Umm Shawkah 94 km · Al-Fāw 97 km · Maiurno 105 km · Al Qadarif 106 km · Sennar 117 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 Al Ḩawātah (13.4167°, 34.6333°, elevation 445 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).