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Makkah weather

Mecca Region · 1,578,722 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:14

Rain around 21:04 Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 10 d Low storm risk · Today

29°

Clear sky

Feels like 38°C

Wind

27 km/h

Gusts

29 km/h

Humidity

60 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 06:22 Set 17:46 Day 11 h 24 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

31°29°

Feels like 41°

Wind ↑ NW 27 km/h

Humidity 61 %

💧 0.7 mm

⚡ storm

21:00

31°

0.6mm

NW 12

00:00

28°

N 10

Makkah forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.6° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Makkah climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 120 mm of rain — less than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from February to November; the typical peak is 41 °C in June.

In 8 months out of twelve, rainfall averages under 10 mm.

Day and night differ most in June: 41 °C in the afternoon against 28 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 37 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (38 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	28 °C	18 °C	37 mm
Feb	30 °C	19 °C	5 mm
Mar	33 °C	21 °C	9 mm
Apr	37 °C	24 °C	10 mm
May	40 °C	26 °C	6 mm
Jun	41 °C	28 °C	1 mm
Jul	41 °C	29 °C	0 mm
Aug	40 °C	29 °C	2 mm
Sep	40 °C	28 °C	5 mm
Oct	38 °C	25 °C	7 mm
Nov	33 °C	21 °C	17 mm
Dec	29 °C	19 °C	23 mm
Whole year	36 °C	24 °C	120 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 21.43° N, 39.83° 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 Makkah: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.529µg/m³

PM1050µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Makkah

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Makkah, 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 Makkah yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Makkah

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:22 Set 16:43

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 Makkah

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

Makkah weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Makkah, Mecca 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 29 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 27 km/h.

Expected range today: 28 °C to 38 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; 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.

Other big cities nearby

Ta'if 64 km 23°

Jeddah 67 km 31°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations