El Daein weather in August

In August, El Daein sees average daytime highs of 32°C and overnight lows near 23°C, with 110 mm of rain across 16.3 wet days and about 12.4 hours of daylight. It is the 11th-warmest and 1st-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 32°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 17% of the time in August, and the air most often feels oppressive.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 30 min at the start of August to 12 h 12 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is El Daein's 12th-clearest and 10th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see El Daein's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 32°; 11th warmest
Overnight low: 23°; 6th coldest
Rainfall: 110 mm; 16.3 wet days
Daylight: 12 h 24 min; 7:08 AM – 7:31 PM
Cloud cover: 66%; 12th clearest
Wind: 8 km/h; 10th windiest
Solar energy: 5.5 kWh/m²
Travel score: 3.6; out of 10

El Daein is capital of East Darfur in Sudan.

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

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Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 32°C through the month.

A typical August day in El Daein reaches about 32°C in the afternoon and slips back to 23°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 29°C and 34°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs about 1°C cooler than July and about 1°C cooler than September.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	32	32	32	32	32	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32
Avg low (°C)	24	24	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	24
2	32	24
3	32	23
4	32	23
5	32	23
6	31	23
7	31	23
8	31	23
9	31	23
10	31	23
11	31	23
12	31	23
13	31	23
14	31	23
15	31	23
16	31	23
17	31	23
18	31	23
19	32	23
20	32	23
21	32	23
22	32	23
23	32	23
24	32	23
25	32	23
26	32	23
27	32	23
28	32	23
29	32	23
30	32	23
31	32	23

How August really feels in El Daein

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

El Daein weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 11th-warmest and 1st-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	32° / 18°	0	0	11.4	5.6
Feb	34° / 20°	0	0	11.6	3.8
Mar	37° / 23°	1	0.3	11.9	1.8
Apr	39° / 25°	3	0.7	12.2	0.5
May	39° / 26°	26	5.5	12.5	0.9
Jun	36° / 26°	47	10.5	12.7	2.1
Jul	33° / 24°	91	15.5	12.6	3.2
Aug	32° / 23°	110	16.3	12.4	3.6
Sep	33° / 24°	77	13.4	12.1	3.2
Oct	35° / 24°	28	6.3	11.7	2.6
Nov	35° / 22°	0	0.1	11.5	3.3
Dec	32° / 19°	0	0	11.3	5.3

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 17% of the time in August, the cloudiest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 23% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 60%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	41	41	41	41	39	39	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	39	40	40	41	41	42	43	43	43	44	44	45	45	44	45
Cloudier (%)	59	59	59	59	61	61	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	62	61	60	60	59	59	58	57	57	57	56	56	55	55	56	55

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	41	59
3	41	59
4	41	59
5	39	61
6	39	61
7	38	62
8	38	62
9	38	62
10	38	62
11	38	62
12	38	62
13	38	62
14	38	62
15	38	62
16	38	62
17	39	61
18	40	60
19	40	60
20	41	59
21	41	59
22	42	58
23	43	57
24	43	57
25	43	57
26	44	56
27	44	56
28	45	55
29	45	55
30	44	56
31	45	55

Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

El Daein gets around 110 mm of rain over 16.3 wet days in August, the wettest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 53% and peaks near 55% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	52	52	53	53	54	54	54	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	54	54	53	53	52	52	51	51	50	50	50	50	49	49	49	49

	Rain chance (%)
1	52
2	52
3	53
4	53
5	54
6	54
7	54
8	55
9	55
10	55
11	55
12	55
13	55
14	55
15	55
16	54
17	54
18	53
19	53
20	52
21	52
22	51
23	51
24	50
25	50
26	50
27	50
28	49
29	49
30	49
31	49

Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels oppressive — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the oppressive band about 78% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Muggy (%)	32	32	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	22	21	20	19	19	19	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17
Oppressive (%)	68	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	78	79	80	81	81	81	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	83	83	83

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	32	68
2	32	68
3	31	69
4	30	70
5	29	71
6	28	72
7	27	73
8	26	74
9	25	75
10	24	76
11	23	77
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	20	80
16	19	81
17	19	81
18	19	81
19	18	82
20	18	82
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	18	82
24	18	82
25	18	82
26	18	82
27	18	82
28	18	82
29	17	83
30	17	83
31	17	83

Wind in August

Winds average 8 km/h in August.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 7 km/h on the calmest days to 9 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7
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	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	9	calm
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3	9	calm
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27	8	calm
28	8	calm
29	7	calm
30	7	calm
31	7	calm

Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 30 min at the start of August to 12 h 12 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 18 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 7:06 AM to 7:09 AM, and sunset from 7:37 PM to 7:23 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.2	12.2
Sunrise (AM)	7:06	7:06	7:07	7:07	7:07	7:07	7:07	7:07	7:07	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:08	7:09	7:09	7:09	7:09	7:09	7:09	7:09	7:09
Sunset (PM)	7:37	7:37	7:36	7:36	7:36	7:35	7:35	7:35	7:34	7:34	7:33	7:33	7:32	7:32	7:32	7:31	7:31	7:30	7:30	7:29	7:28	7:28	7:27	7:27	7:26	7:26	7:25	7:24	7:24	7:23	7:23

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	12.5	7:06	7:37
2	12.5	7:06	7:37
3	12.5	7:07	7:36
4	12.5	7:07	7:36
5	12.5	7:07	7:36
6	12.5	7:07	7:35
7	12.5	7:07	7:35
8	12.5	7:07	7:35
9	12.4	7:07	7:34
10	12.4	7:08	7:34
11	12.4	7:08	7:33
12	12.4	7:08	7:33
13	12.4	7:08	7:32
14	12.4	7:08	7:32
15	12.4	7:08	7:32
16	12.4	7:08	7:31
17	12.4	7:08	7:31
18	12.4	7:08	7:30
19	12.4	7:08	7:30
20	12.3	7:08	7:29
21	12.3	7:08	7:28
22	12.3	7:08	7:28
23	12.3	7:08	7:27
24	12.3	7:09	7:27
25	12.3	7:09	7:26
26	12.3	7:09	7:26
27	12.3	7:09	7:25
28	12.3	7:09	7:24
29	12.3	7:09	7:24
30	12.2	7:09	7:23
31	12.2	7:09	7:23

Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 5.5 kWh/m² — the year's lowest.

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 5.5 kWh/m² to a high of 7.4 kWh/m² in April across the year — August's 5.5 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.7
Level	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	5.4	Bright
2	5.4	Bright
3	5.4	Bright
4	5.4	Bright
5	5.4	Bright
6	5.4	Bright
7	5.4	Bright
8	5.4	Bright
9	5.4	Bright
10	5.4	Bright
11	5.4	Bright
12	5.4	Bright
13	5.4	Bright
14	5.5	Bright
15	5.5	Bright
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17	5.5	Bright
18	5.5	Bright
19	5.5	Bright
20	5.5	Bright
21	5.6	Bright
22	5.6	Bright
23	5.6	Bright
24	5.6	Bright
25	5.7	Bright
26	5.7	Bright
27	5.7	Bright
28	5.7	Bright
29	5.7	Bright
30	5.7	Bright
31	5.7	Bright

Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for El Daein

In seasonPeak

None of El Daein's seasonal hazards are active in August. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

El Daein sees seasonal dust haze (March–July), heaviest in April.

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Is August a good time to visit El Daein?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

3.6

Sightseeing

4th-best month of the year

5.5

Beach & pool

7th-best month of the year

August is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in El Daein.

What to pack for El Daein in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, El Daein sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in El Daein in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 13 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in El Daein peaks around March 12 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 at about 9 (very high).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	11	13	13	12	10	11	10	13	11	11	9	9
Level	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Very high

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	11	Extreme
Feb	13	Extreme
Mar	13	Extreme
Apr	12	Extreme
May	10	Extreme
Jun	11	Extreme
Jul	10	Extreme
Aug	13	Extreme
Sep	11	Extreme
Oct	11	Extreme
Nov	9	Very high
Dec	9	Very high

Air quality in El Daein in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in El Daein is worst in March — around 55 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.1× the cleanest month (August, 14 µg/m³).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
PM2.5 (µg/m³)	38	45	55	44	28	25	18	14	14	19	24	34
Level	Poor	Poor	Unhealthy	Poor	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate

	PM2.5 (µg/m³)	Level
Jan	38	Poor
Feb	45	Poor
Mar	55	Unhealthy
Apr	44	Poor
May	28	Moderate
Jun	25	Moderate
Jul	18	Moderate
Aug	14	Moderate
Sep	14	Moderate
Oct	19	Moderate
Nov	24	Moderate
Dec	34	Moderate

Location & terrain

Where is El Daein?

El Daein sits at 11.5°N, 26.1°E, 478 m above sea level, in Sudan. The nearest listed city is Gereida, 109 km away.

Topography around El Daein

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Daein has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 7 m around an average of 475 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 25 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 118 m.

The land around El Daein is covered by artificial surfaces (63%) and grassland (31%) within 3 km, cropland (73%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (61%) and cropland (38%) within 80 km.

3 km

7 m

artificial surfaces 63%

16 km

25 m

cropland 73%

80 km

118 m

grassland 61%

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← July El Daein year-round climate September →Best places to visit in August

August weather nearby: Gereida 109 km · Sh'īarīah 124 km · Burām 125 km · Nyala 150 km · Ghubaysh 154 km · Tullus 179 km · Al Mijlad 182 km · Babanūsah 183 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 El Daein (11.4619°, 26.1258°, elevation 478 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).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	24
2	32	24
3	32	23
4	32	23
5	32	23
6	31	23
7	31	23
8	31	23
9	31	23
10	31	23
11	31	23
12	31	23
13	31	23
14	31	23
15	31	23
16	31	23
17	31	23
18	31	23
19	32	23
20	32	23
21	32	23
22	32	23
23	32	23
24	32	23
25	32	23
26	32	23
27	32	23
28	32	23
29	32	23
30	32	23
31	32	23

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	41	59
3	41	59
4	41	59
5	39	61
6	39	61
7	38	62
8	38	62
9	38	62
10	38	62
11	38	62
12	38	62
13	38	62
14	38	62
15	38	62
16	38	62
17	39	61
18	40	60
19	40	60
20	41	59
21	41	59
22	42	58
23	43	57
24	43	57
25	43	57
26	44	56
27	44	56
28	45	55
29	45	55
30	44	56
31	45	55

	Rain chance (%)
1	52
2	52
3	53
4	53
5	54
6	54
7	54
8	55
9	55
10	55
11	55
12	55
13	55
14	55
15	55
16	54
17	54
18	53
19	53
20	52
21	52
22	51
23	51
24	50
25	50
26	50
27	50
28	49
29	49
30	49
31	49

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	32	68
2	32	68
3	31	69
4	30	70
5	29	71
6	28	72
7	27	73
8	26	74
9	25	75
10	24	76
11	23	77
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	20	80
16	19	81
17	19	81
18	19	81
19	18	82
20	18	82
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	18	82
24	18	82
25	18	82
26	18	82
27	18	82
28	18	82
29	17	83
30	17	83
31	17	83

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	24
2	32	24
3	32	23
4	32	23
5	32	23
6	31	23
7	31	23
8	31	23
9	31	23
10	31	23
11	31	23
12	31	23
13	31	23
14	31	23
15	31	23
16	31	23
17	31	23
18	31	23
19	32	23
20	32	23
21	32	23
22	32	23
23	32	23
24	32	23
25	32	23
26	32	23
27	32	23
28	32	23
29	32	23
30	32	23
31	32	23

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	41	59
3	41	59
4	41	59
5	39	61
6	39	61
7	38	62
8	38	62
9	38	62
10	38	62
11	38	62
12	38	62
13	38	62
14	38	62
15	38	62
16	38	62
17	39	61
18	40	60
19	40	60
20	41	59
21	41	59
22	42	58
23	43	57
24	43	57
25	43	57
26	44	56
27	44	56
28	45	55
29	45	55
30	44	56
31	45	55

	Rain chance (%)
1	52
2	52
3	53
4	53
5	54
6	54
7	54
8	55
9	55
10	55
11	55
12	55
13	55
14	55
15	55
16	54
17	54
18	53
19	53
20	52
21	52
22	51
23	51
24	50
25	50
26	50
27	50
28	49
29	49
30	49
31	49

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	32	68
2	32	68
3	31	69
4	30	70
5	29	71
6	28	72
7	27	73
8	26	74
9	25	75
10	24	76
11	23	77
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	20	80
16	19	81
17	19	81
18	19	81
19	18	82
20	18	82
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	18	82
24	18	82
25	18	82
26	18	82
27	18	82
28	18	82
29	17	83
30	17	83
31	17	83

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	24
2	32	24
3	32	23
4	32	23
5	32	23
6	31	23
7	31	23
8	31	23
9	31	23
10	31	23
11	31	23
12	31	23
13	31	23
14	31	23
15	31	23
16	31	23
17	31	23
18	31	23
19	32	23
20	32	23
21	32	23
22	32	23
23	32	23
24	32	23
25	32	23
26	32	23
27	32	23
28	32	23
29	32	23
30	32	23
31	32	23

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	41	59
2	41	59
3	41	59
4	41	59
5	39	61
6	39	61
7	38	62
8	38	62
9	38	62
10	38	62
11	38	62
12	38	62
13	38	62
14	38	62
15	38	62
16	38	62
17	39	61
18	40	60
19	40	60
20	41	59
21	41	59
22	42	58
23	43	57
24	43	57
25	43	57
26	44	56
27	44	56
28	45	55
29	45	55
30	44	56
31	45	55

	Rain chance (%)
1	52
2	52
3	53
4	53
5	54
6	54
7	54
8	55
9	55
10	55
11	55
12	55
13	55
14	55
15	55
16	54
17	54
18	53
19	53
20	52
21	52
22	51
23	51
24	50
25	50
26	50
27	50
28	49
29	49
30	49
31	49

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	32	68
2	32	68
3	31	69
4	30	70
5	29	71
6	28	72
7	27	73
8	26	74
9	25	75
10	24	76
11	23	77
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	20	80
16	19	81
17	19	81
18	19	81
19	18	82
20	18	82
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	18	82
24	18	82
25	18	82
26	18	82
27	18	82
28	18	82
29	17	83
30	17	83
31	17	83