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Riyadh Region · 4,205,961 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:12

Air: Extremely poor Heatwave risk · 7 d

36°

Clear sky

Feels like 36°C

Wind

9 km/h

Gusts

12 km/h

Humidity

12 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

7 %

Storm

Rise 05:58 Set 17:15 Day 11 h 17 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

32°28°

Feels like 32°

Wind ↑ SE 13 km/h

Humidity 14 %

21:00

28°

SE 6

00:00

27°

ESE 12

Riyadh forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.8° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Riyadh climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 70 mm of rain — less than 99% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

In 7 months out of twelve, rainfall averages under 10 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from April to October; the typical peak is 43 °C in July.

Day and night differ most in September: 40 °C in the afternoon against 26 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 35 °C, against a usual 35 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	20 °C	9 °C	12 mm
Feb	23 °C	11 °C	6 mm
Mar	28 °C	15 °C	12 mm
Apr	33 °C	20 °C	16 mm
May	38 °C	25 °C	3 mm
Jun	42 °C	28 °C	0 mm
Jul	43 °C	29 °C	0 mm
Aug	43 °C	29 °C	0 mm
Sep	40 °C	26 °C	0 mm
Oct	35 °C	21 °C	1 mm
Nov	27 °C	15 °C	12 mm
Dec	22 °C	11 °C	10 mm
Whole year	33 °C	20 °C	70 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 24.69° N, 46.72° 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 Riyadh: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.594µg/m³

PM10576µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Riyadh

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

Moon over Riyadh

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 01:44 Set 16:23

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 Riyadh

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

Riyadh weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Riyadh, 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 36 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 9 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.

Other big cities nearby

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