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Al Kharj weather

Riyadh Region · 425,300 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:15

Clear sky
32°
Clear sky
Feels like 32°C
Wind
12 km/h
Gusts
12 km/h
Humidity
14 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
7 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:55 Set 17:13 Day 11 h 18 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
32°29°
Feels like 32°
Wind ↑ S 12 km/h
Humidity 14 %
21:00
Clear sky
29°
S 10
00:00
Clear sky
27°
ENE 11

Al Kharj forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.4° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
20°25°29°34°38°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed34°22°Thu 29 Oct: max 36° · min 27° · normal 25.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 36° · min 23° · normal 25.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 36° · min 24° · normal 25.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 35° · min 24° · normal 25.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 35° · min 23° · normal 25.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 35° · min 23° · normal 24.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 34° · min 22° · normal 24.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu21°30°38°36°22°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Al Kharj climate: what a normal year looks like

From May to March, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

A normal year brings roughly 60 mm of rain — less than 99% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in September: 41 °C in the afternoon against 25 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from April to October; the typical peak is 44 °C in July.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 35 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (36 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan21 °C9 °C9 mm
Feb24 °C11 °C7 mm
Mar29 °C16 °C9 mm
Apr34 °C21 °C12 mm
May40 °C25 °C1 mm
Jun43 °C28 °C0 mm
Jul44 °C29 °C0 mm
Aug44 °C29 °C0 mm
Sep41 °C25 °C0 mm
Oct36 °C20 °C1 mm
Nov28 °C15 °C9 mm
Dec23 °C11 °C10 mm
Whole year34 °C20 °C60 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 24.16° N, 47.33° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Al Kharj: pollution and pollen

5/6
Very poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.530µg/m³
PM10149µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Al Kharj

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Al Kharj, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Al Kharj yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Al Kharj

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:43 Set 16:19
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Riyadh); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Al Kharj

Curious about the weather in Al Kharj on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Al Kharj weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Al Kharj, Riyadh Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 32 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 36 °C and a dry sky; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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