Climate and average weather in Dhamār

In Dhamār, the summers are warm, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: early January to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dhamār typically varies from 7°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 29°C. June is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Dhamār for warm-weather activities are from early January to late June and early September to late December.

Hottest
Jun
27°
Coldest
Dec
Wettest
Aug
246 mm
Driest
Dec
3 mm
Rain / yr
594 mm
74 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,421 m
14.5°N
Clearest
Dec
19% cloud

Dhamār is capital of the Dhamar Governorate in Yemen.

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

Dhamār 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 June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dhamār stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is June, with an average high of 27°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 7°C and high of 20°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in December.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan218
Feb229
Mar2311
Apr2312
May2514
Jun2715
Jul2515
Aug2414
Sep2413
Oct2210
Nov218
Dec207

Average hourly temperature in Dhamār

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 June afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near C.

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

Dhamār 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
Jan21° / 82.511.28.2
Feb22° / 92.311.58.5
Mar23° / 11°285.711.98.0
Apr23° / 12°497.912.37.5
May25° / 14°36512.77.8
Jun27° / 15°193.912.87.6
Jul25° / 15°14916.912.85.8
Aug24° / 14°2462212.55.2
Sep24° / 13°354.812.18.0
Oct22° / 10°8111.78.8
Nov21° / 41.311.38.5
Dec20° / 31.211.28.5

Chance of rain

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

Dhamār gets about 594 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 2.6 months, from around Jun 26 to Sep 11, peaking in August at about 79% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 31.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 246 mm over about 22 wet days; December is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 6 · 79%Oct 31 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan83
Feb92
Mar186
Apr278
May165
Jun144
Jul5417
Aug6822
Sep185
Oct31
Nov41
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dhamār collects about 594 mm of rain across 74 wet days — roughly 49 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 246 mm, while December is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 75% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec892849361914924635843
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan83
Feb92
Mar286
Apr498
May365
Jun194
Jul14917
Aug24622
Sep355
Oct81
Nov41
Dec31

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dhamār, 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 18 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around April 11. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 12 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around September 17. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 58% 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 · 94%Aug 3 · 35%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8713
Feb8812
Mar8317
Apr7129
May6535
Jun5941
Jul4258
Aug4555
Sep7030
Oct8416
Nov8812
Dec928

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 14, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.26:355:48
Feb11.56:316:02
Mar11.96:156:09
Apr12.35:536:12
May12.75:386:19
Jun12.85:376:28
Jul12.85:446:32
Aug12.55:526:21
Sep12.15:545:59
Oct11.75:575:37
Nov11.36:085:27
Dec11.26:245:33

Sunny days

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

Dhamār averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.2 months, from around Sep 22 to Mar 30. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is July, down near 3 sunny days — about 88% fewer than the December peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2225 daysJul 312 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan23Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr13Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun10Mixed
Jul3Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep12Mixed
Oct23Bright
Nov23Brilliant
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 Dhamār, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1001
May991
Jun1000
Jul919
Aug8416
Sep991
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Dhamār is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.3 months, from around Sep 8 to Nov 17. The windiest month is October, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Nov 18 to May 12, with January the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeOct 8 · 12 km/hJan 3 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep10calm
Oct12calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Dhamār

In seasonPeak

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

Dhamār's monsoon runs July–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Dhamār sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Dhamār

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Dhamār 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 Dhamār for general outdoor tourist activities is from early September to late June, with a peak score in the first week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 4 · 8.9

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
Jan8.2ideal
Feb8.5ideal
Mar8.0ideal
Apr7.5good
May7.8ideal
Jun7.5ideal
Jul5.8good
Aug5.3fair
Sep8.0ideal
Oct8.9ideal
Nov8.5ideal
Dec8.5ideal

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 Dhamār for hot-weather activities run from late April to early July and again from early September to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 6 · 7.7

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 Dhamār, 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 June (highs near 27°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 20°C), pack a warm layer and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In June, Dhamār sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 15°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dhamār 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 Dhamār peaks around April 11 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 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 highApr 11UV 15Dec 12UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Dhamār

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 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
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr8.57
May8.56.5
Jun8.56.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Dhamār 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 Dhamār is worst in July — around 54 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.9× the cleanest month (December, 28 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJul 1254 µg/m³Dec 1028 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan30Moderate
Feb36Poor
Mar37Poor
Apr38Poor
May42Poor
Jun52Poor
Jul54Poor
Aug44Poor
Sep44Poor
Oct35Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dhamār 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. Dhamār banks about 2,626 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan127
Feb155
Mar208
Apr229
May295
Jun328
Jul305
Aug279
Sep259
Oct194
Nov134
Dec114

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.

Dhamār receives about 6.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.4 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Feb 4 to Jun 9. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.5 kWh/m² — roughly 20% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 76.9 kWhJul 305.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.8Intense
Apr6.9Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun6.1Intense
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep6.2Intense
Oct6.7Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Dhamār?

Dhamār sits at 14.5°N, 44.4°E, 2,421 m above sea level, in Yemen. The nearest listed city is Yarīm, 27 km away.

Dhī as SufālSaḩarSanaaTaizBayt al Faqīh

Topography around Dhamār

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dhamār has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 91 m around an average of 2,424 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 854 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,616 m.

The land around Dhamār is covered by artificial surfaces (50%) and cropland (39%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) and bare terrain (21%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (33%), shrubs (27%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
91 m
16 km
854 m
80 km
2,616 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Yarīm 27 km · Ibb 68 km · Sayyān 70 km · Dhī as Sufāl 85 km · Saḩar 87 km · Sanaa 93 km · Taiz 115 km · Bayt al Faqīh 116 km

Yemen travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type A / D / G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 7% of US
price level, 2013
GDP per capita
$634
2018
Happiness
3.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2013
Road deaths
29.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 402
Religion
Muslim 99%other 1%

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 Dhamār (14.5427°, 44.4051°, elevation 2,421 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).