Climate and average weather in Khalifah A City

In Khalifah A City, the summers are oppressive, sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Khalifah A City typically varies from 16°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 43°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Khalifah A City for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and late November to late December.

Hottest
Aug
40°
Coldest
Jan
16°
Wettest
Mar
13 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
45 mm
7 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
0 m
24.4°N
Clearest
Jun
5% cloud

Khalifah A City 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 January to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.8 months, from May 13 to October 6, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Khalifah A City is August, with an average high of 40°C and low of 32°C.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from December 9 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 26°C. The coldest month of the year in Khalifah A City is January, with an average low of 16°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2316
Feb2517
Mar2819
Apr3223
May3627
Jun3829
Jul3931
Aug4032
Sep3829
Oct3526
Nov3022
Dec2618

How hot and cold Khalifah A City 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, Khalifah A City feels like about 49°C (around August 8). About 206 days a year carry some heat stress, and 148 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in August.

20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan23231616
Feb24251717
Mar28281919
Apr32322323
May39362727
Jun45382929
Jul48393131
Aug49403232
Sep45382929
Oct38352626
Nov30302222
Dec26261818

Average hourly temperature in Khalifah A City

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 August afternoons, near 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 16°C.

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

Khalifah A City 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
Jan23° / 16°91.610.78.8
Feb25° / 17°91.311.19.1
Mar28° / 19°131.611.87.9
Apr32° / 23°40.512.65.3
May36° / 27°00.113.22.7
Jun38° / 29°0013.51.3
Jul39° / 31°1013.40.4
Aug40° / 32°10.112.80.1
Sep38° / 29°0012.21.4
Oct35° / 26°10.111.43.7
Nov30° / 22°30.710.86.9
Dec26° / 18°5110.58.9

Chance of rain

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

Khalifah A City gets about 45 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 13 mm over about 2 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainJan 16 · 6%May 12 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan52
Feb41
Mar52
Apr21
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov21
Dec31

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Khalifah A City collects about 45 mm of rain across 7 wet days — roughly 4 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 13 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 68% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec9913400110135
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan92
Feb91
Mar132
Apr41
May00
Jun00
Jul10
Aug10
Sep00
Oct10
Nov31
Dec51

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Khalifah A City, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around August 7 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around November 28. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 29 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around May 9. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 19% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 30 · 100%Mar 24 · 79%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8317
Feb8713
Mar8119
Apr8218
May937
Jun982
Jul928
Aug946
Sep991
Oct982
Nov946
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 June 7, brings about 13 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 3 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.77:125:50
Feb11.17:026:11
Mar11.86:376:26
Apr12.66:056:39
May13.25:426:53
Jun13.55:377:07
Jul13.45:467:09
Aug12.86:006:51
Sep12.26:126:20
Oct11.46:245:49
Nov10.86:435:31
Dec10.57:035:33

Sunny days

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

Khalifah A City averages about 25 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 20 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Aug 10 to Nov 24. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 30 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 21 sunny days — about 29% fewer than the September peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2830 daysJan 1320 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb22Brilliant
Mar22Bright
Apr22Bright
May28Brilliant
Jun29Brilliant
Jul26Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep29Brilliant
Oct30Brilliant
Nov26Brilliant
Dec23Brilliant

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 Khalifah A City, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around April 23 to November 24. 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 November 25 to April 22, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 86% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 21 · 90%Jul 3 · 0%miserablecomfortableoppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan473913100
Feb463914100
Mar284125600
Apr1029411810
May182540224
Jun014194036
Jul001102663
Aug001112761
Sep113113252
Oct3410293717
Nov616383280
Dec223632900

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 Khalifah A City is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Jan 10 to Jul 19. The windiest month is March, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 20 to Jan 9, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeMar 20 · 16 km/hOct 22 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct12light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for Khalifah A City

In seasonPeak

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

Khalifah A City sits in the North Indian Ocean cyclone zone; the season peaks May and October–November.

Khalifah A City sees seasonal dust haze (March–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Khalifah A City

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Khalifah A City 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 Khalifah A City for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 7 · 9.2

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
Jan8.9ideal
Feb9.0ideal
Mar7.9ideal
Apr5.3fair
May2.7poor
Jun1.3poor
Jul0.4poor
Aug0.1poor
Sep1.4poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov6.9good
Dec8.8ideal

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Khalifah A City for hot-weather activities run from early February to early May and again from mid October to early January, with a peak score in the third week of November.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 18 · 9.2

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 Khalifah A City, 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 August (highs near 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 23°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Khalifah A City sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 32°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Khalifah A City

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 22 km away) is warmest in August at about 34°C and coldest in February near 21°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan22Refreshing
Feb21Refreshing
Mar22Refreshing
Apr25Warm
May29Tropical
Jun32Tropical
Jul33Tropical
Aug34Tropical
Sep33Tropical
Oct31Tropical
Nov28Tropical
Dec24Warm

UV index (midday) in Khalifah A City 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 Khalifah A City peaks around May 18 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highHighMay 18UV 11Dec 16UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb9Very high
Mar8Very high
Apr9Very high
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct8Very high
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Khalifah A City

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 May the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 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)
Jan5.52
Feb6.54
Mar74.5
Apr7.55
May8.56
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct6.54
Nov5.51
Dec4.50

Air quality in Khalifah A City 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 Khalifah A City is worst in July — around 78 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.7× the cleanest month (November, 29 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorModerateJul 2278 µg/m³Nov 2329 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan34Moderate
Feb40Poor
Mar48Poor
Apr47Poor
May52Poor
Jun58Unhealthy
Jul78Unhealthy
Aug76Unhealthy
Sep54Poor
Oct39Poor
Nov29Moderate
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Khalifah A City 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. Khalifah A City banks about 6,671 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan303
Feb298
Mar416
Apr522
May663
Jun707
Jul784
Aug799
Sep707
Oct626
Nov477
Dec369

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.

Khalifah A City receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Mar 14 to Sep 30. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 45% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 207.6 kWhDec 244.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.3Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar6.1Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.0Intense
Aug6.8Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct5.6Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.1Bright

Where is Khalifah A City?

Khalifah A City sits at 24.4°N, 54.6°E, 0 m above sea level, in United Arab Emirates. The nearest listed city is Mohammed Bin Zayed City, 10 km away.

Jebel AliDubai Investments ParkAl Furjan

Topography around Khalifah A City

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Khalifah A City has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 37 m around an average of 6 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 74 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 216 m.

The land around Khalifah A City is covered by bare terrain (50%) and artificial surfaces (42%) within 3 km, bare terrain (52%) and artificial surfaces (27%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (62%) and water (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
37 m
16 km
74 m
80 km
216 m
treesshrubsartificial surfacesbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Mohammed Bin Zayed City 10 km · Al Shamkhah City 11 km · Bani Yas City 13 km · Musaffah 14 km · Abu Dhabi 21 km · Jebel Ali 82 km · Dubai Investments Park 85 km · Al Furjan 86 km

United Arab Emirates travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 63% of US
price level, 2024
GDP per capita
$50,274
2024
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.7
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
8.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 487

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 Khalifah A City (24.4259°, 54.605°, elevation 0 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).