ABU DHABI
Climate and Weather

Climate and Weather

Abu Dhabi Desert_{Photo: Cesar 1 Martins CC 2.0 Generic no changes made}

Lying around the Tropic of Cancer, the United Arab Emirates has a desert climate with a warm and sunny winter and a hot and humid summer. Average daytime temperatures of around 26 ° C in winter are pleasant, November seems to be the best month to visit Abu Dhabi, although at night it can cool down to 12-15 °C on the coast and deep in the desert and in higher located areas below 5 °C sometimes occurs. The northwestern shamal wind, which can blow from the northwest in summer and winter, causes sand storms.

In summer, temperatures reach about 45 °C, and it can get even hotter inland. Humidity on the coast varies between 50-60% in winter to more than 90% in summer and fall. Inland is much less humid. In late autumn and early spring it can be very foggy in the morning combined with high humidity.

Rainfall is scarce. It rains in short, bright showers, especially in the winter months of February and March. Thunderstorms do sometimes occur in summer, especially over the mountains in the south and east of the country. In some years, however, not a drop of water falls, and plants and animals depend on the dew. This even applies to places where it normally always rains, such as in Masafi in the Hajar mountains, where in a 'wet' year there is 350 mm of rain, but only 30 mm in a dry year. Occasionally it can rain so hard in these mountains that the wadis flood, but Abu Dhabi is also sometimes hit by floods, for example in December 2009, when Abu Dhabi city was completely disrupted for two days.

CLIMATE TABLE ABU DHABI

month	avg max temp	avg min temp	sunshine hrs p/d	days precipitiation p/m	sea temp
January	24°C	14°C	8	2	23°C
February	25°C	15°C	8	3	23°C
March	28°C	17°C	8	3	24°C
april	33°C	21°C	10	2	25°C
May	38°C	25°C	11	0	29°C
June	39°C	26°C	11	0	31°C
July	41°C	29°C	10	0	32°C
August	42°C	30°C	10	0	33°C
September	40°C	26°C	10	0	32°C
October	35°C	23°C	10	0	31°C
November	30°C	19°C	10	0	28°C
December	26°C	16°C	8	2	25°C

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Sources

BBC - Country Profiles

CIA - World Factbook

Last updated November 2024
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