Climate and average weather in Al Mijlad

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

Best: mid December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Al Mijlad typically varies from 19°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 15°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 time of year to visit Al Mijlad for warm-weather activities is from mid December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
40°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
135 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
480 mm
86 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
434 m
11.0°N
Clearest
Dec
22% cloud

Al Mijlad is city in West Kurdufan State in the west of Sudan.

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

Al Mijlad 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 December to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Al Mijlad, 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 March 2 to May 23, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Al Mijlad is April, with an average high of 40°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.4 months, from July 11 to September 20, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Al Mijlad is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3319
Feb3622
Mar3924
Apr4026
May3827
Jun3525
Jul3224
Aug3123
Sep3223
Oct3524
Nov3623
Dec3420

How hot and cold Al Mijlad 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 Mijlad feels like about 40°C (around April 8). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 71 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331919
Feb36362122
Mar38392424
Apr40402626
May39382727
Jun38352525
Jul35322424
Aug34312323
Sep36322323
Oct36352424
Nov36362323
Dec34342020

Average hourly temperature in Al Mijlad

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

Al Mijlad 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° / 19°0011.44.5
Feb36° / 22°0011.62.9
Mar39° / 24°10.411.91.0
Apr40° / 26°82.512.20.2
May38° / 27°378.512.51.0
Jun35° / 25°6413.512.62.2
Jul32° / 24°11718.512.63.2
Aug31° / 23°13519.512.43.6
Sep32° / 23°8314.312.13.6
Oct35° / 24°358.311.82.8
Nov36° / 23°10.111.52.8
Dec34° / 20°0011.44.3

Chance of rain

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

Al Mijlad gets about 480 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 5.2 months, from around May 14 to Oct 19, peaking in August at about 65% 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 135 mm over about 20 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 9 · 65%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar20
Apr93
May269
Jun4614
Jul6019
Aug6220
Sep4814
Oct268
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Al Mijlad collects about 480 mm of rain across 86 wet days — roughly 40 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 135 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 70% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec18376411713583351
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr83
May379
Jun6414
Jul11719
Aug13520
Sep8314
Oct358
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Al Mijlad, 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 17 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around May 19. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 20 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 16. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 63% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 20 · 87%Aug 14 · 36%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7822
Feb7822
Mar7723
Apr7327
May6733
Jun5644
Jul4654
Aug3763
Sep5149
Oct6733
Nov8317
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 May 23, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.47:367:01
Feb11.67:357:13
Mar11.97:217:16
Apr12.27:027:17
May12.56:507:20
Jun12.66:507:29
Jul12.66:577:32
Aug12.47:027:24
Sep12.17:027:05
Oct11.87:026:47
Nov11.57:106:39
Dec11.47:256:46

Sunny days

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

Al Mijlad averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.8 months, from around Oct 21 to May 14. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 84% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1824 daysAug 63 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr17Bright
May14Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul5Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct14Mixed
Nov21Bright
Dec24Brilliant

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around May 1 to October 27. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 28 to April 30, and February 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 20 · 100%Jun 20 · 0%comfortableoppressivedryhumidmuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar953110
Apr65111492
May1710263413
Jun1175438
Jul0012970
Aug000892
Sep0011188
Oct195102838
Nov884431
Dec1000000

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

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Nov 9 to Apr 9. The windiest month is January, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 10 to Nov 8, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 6 · 15 km/hSep 20 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov12calm
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Al Mijlad

In seasonPeak

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

Al Mijlad sees seasonal dust haze (March–June), heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Al Mijlad

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, Al Mijlad 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 Al Mijlad for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 4.9

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb2.9poor
Mar1.0poor
Apr0.3poor
May1.0poor
Jun2.2poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.5fair
Oct2.9poor
Nov2.8poor
Dec4.3fair

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 Mijlad for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 8.2

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 Mijlad, 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, Al Mijlad sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Al Mijlad 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 Mijlad peaks around February 21 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 highFeb 21UV 13Dec 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Al Mijlad

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 February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7.5 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Al Mijlad 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 Mijlad is worst in March — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.1× the cleanest month (September, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateGoodModerateMar 1746 µg/m³Sep 911 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan32Moderate
Feb37Poor
Mar47Poor
Apr37Poor
May22Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug12Good
Sep11Good
Oct16Moderate
Nov19Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Al Mijlad 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 Mijlad banks about 6,969 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)
Jan504
Feb519
Mar662
Apr682
May694
Jun606
Jul554
Aug523
Sep529
Oct593
Nov579
Dec526

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 Mijlad receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Jan 14 to May 28. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 317.3 kWhAug 45.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar7.2Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.4Intense
Jun5.8Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.0Bright
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Al Mijlad?

Al Mijlad sits at 11.0°N, 27.7°E, 434 m above sea level, in Sudan. The nearest listed city is Babanūsah, 34 km away.

Al FūlahGhubayshAbyeiEl DaeinAn NuhūdKadugliAbū Zabad

Topography around Al Mijlad

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Al Mijlad has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 7 m around an average of 430 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 18 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 164 m.

The land around Al Mijlad is covered by grassland (69%) within 3 km, grassland (78%) within 16 km, and grassland (93%) within 80 km.

3 km
7 m
16 km
18 m
80 km
164 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Babanūsah 34 km · Al Fūlah 103 km · Ghubaysh 131 km · Abyei 177 km · El Daein 182 km · An Nuhūd 200 km · Kadugli 217 km · Abū Zabad 221 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 Mijlad (11.0333°, 27.7333°, elevation 434 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).