Climate and average weather in Kadugli

In Kadugli, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and partly cloudy.

Best: early July to early November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kadugli typically varies from 20°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 16°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 Kadugli for warm-weather activities are from early July to early November and early December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
39°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
187 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
709 mm
119 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
506 m
11.0°N
Clearest
Dec
23% cloud

Kadugli is capital city of South Kordofan State, Sudan.

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

Kadugli 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 early July to early November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.8 months, from February 21 to May 17, with daily high temperatures above 37°C. The hottest month of the year in Kadugli is April, with an average high of 39°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from July 8 to September 29, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Kadugli is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 12°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)
Jan3420
Feb3622
Mar3925
Apr3926
May3726
Jun3424
Jul3123
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3322
Nov3622
Dec3521

How hot and cold Kadugli 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, Kadugli feels like about 40°C (around April 2). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 36 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)
Jan34342020
Feb36362222
Mar39392525
Apr39392626
May39372626
Jun37342424
Jul34312323
Aug33292222
Sep34302222
Oct35332222
Nov36362222
Dec35352121

Average hourly temperature in Kadugli

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 39°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Kadugli 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
Jan34° / 20°00.111.43.7
Feb36° / 22°0011.62.4
Mar39° / 25°20.611.90.8
Apr39° / 26°153.812.20.4
May37° / 26°5713.412.51.4
Jun34° / 24°9317.712.62.6
Jul31° / 23°1572312.63.3
Aug29° / 22°18724.512.43.6
Sep30° / 22°12921.512.13.5
Oct33° / 22°6713.711.83.4
Nov36° / 22°10.511.52.9
Dec35° / 21°0011.43.5

Chance of rain

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

Kadugli gets about 709 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.5 months, from around May 8 to Oct 22, peaking in August at about 81% 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 187 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 5 · 81%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar21
Apr134
May4113
Jun6018
Jul7423
Aug7925
Sep7122
Oct4314
Nov31
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kadugli collects about 709 mm of rain across 119 wet days — roughly 59 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 187 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 67% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec0021557931571871296710
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar21
Apr154
May5713
Jun9318
Jul15723
Aug18725
Sep12922
Oct6714
Nov11
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kadugli, 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 20 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 10. 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 11 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 19. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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 18 · 87%Aug 3 · 30%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb8020
Mar7723
Apr7228
May6139
Jun5149
Jul3961
Aug3268
Sep4753
Oct6337
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 24, 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)
Jan11.47:286:53
Feb11.67:277:05
Mar11.97:137:09
Apr12.26:547:09
May12.56:427:12
Jun12.66:427:21
Jul12.66:497:24
Aug12.46:547:16
Sep12.16:546:57
Oct11.86:546:39
Nov11.57:026:31
Dec11.47:176:38

Sunny days

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

Kadugli averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Oct 24 to May 5. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 4 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2123 daysJul 272 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr16Bright
May11Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct12Mixed
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 Kadugli, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around April 29 to October 30. 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 October 31 to April 28, and December 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 7 · 100%Jun 22 · 0%oppressivedrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar952211
Apr62915113
May128204317
Jun0144550
Jul0002179
Aug000595
Sep000595
Oct10672057
Nov816652
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 Kadugli is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Nov 13 to Apr 8. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 9 to Nov 12, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 10 · 17 km/hSep 20 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr10calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov11calm
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Kadugli

In seasonPeak

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

Kadugli's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Kadugli sees seasonal dust haze (March–April), heaviest in April.

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

Best time to visit Kadugli

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Kadugli 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 times of year to visit Kadugli for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to late October and again from early December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 4.0

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
Jan3.7fair
Feb2.3poor
Mar0.8poor
Apr0.4poor
May1.4poor
Jun2.6poor
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.5fair
Oct3.4poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec3.5fair

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 Kadugli for hot-weather activities is from late October to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 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 Kadugli, 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 39°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Kadugli sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kadugli 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 Kadugli peaks around March 15 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeVery highMar 15UV 13Dec 12UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kadugli

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
Feb86
Mar86
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep85.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Kadugli 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 Kadugli is worst in March — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.5× the cleanest month (August, 13 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1642 µg/m³Aug 1813 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan31Moderate
Feb35Poor
Mar43Poor
Apr34Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct25Moderate
Nov32Moderate
Dec27Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kadugli 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. Kadugli banks about 6,789 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)
Jan534
Feb538
Mar671
Apr677
May662
Jun564
Jul513
Aug483
Sep485
Oct541
Nov570
Dec553

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.

Kadugli receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jan 3 to May 21. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 307.2 kWhAug 24.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May6.1Intense
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Kadugli?

Kadugli sits at 11.0°N, 29.7°E, 506 m above sea level, in Sudan. The nearest listed city is Dilling, 116 km away.

DillingAbū ZabadAl FūlahAbu JibehaAbyeiBabanūsahAr RahadAl Mijlad

Topography around Kadugli

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kadugli has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 274 m around an average of 534 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 443 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 712 m.

The land around Kadugli is covered by grassland (70%) within 3 km, grassland (74%) within 16 km, and grassland (79%) within 80 km.

3 km
274 m
16 km
443 m
80 km
712 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Dilling 116 km · Abū Zabad 157 km · Al Fūlah 169 km · Abu Jibeha 172 km · Abyei 211 km · Babanūsah 212 km · Ar Rahad 215 km · Al Mijlad 217 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 Kadugli (11.0111°, 29.7183°, elevation 506 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).