Afula climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Afula?

Afula has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.6 °C and it receives 464 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Afula?

The hottest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 6 May 1942, reaching 43.0 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Afula?

The coldest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 8 February 1950, at -2.4 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Afula?

Almost never: Afula sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Afula warmed?

Yes: Afula warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Afula?

The wettest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 8 January 2013, with 57 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Afula?

The windiest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 20 February 2001, with winds reaching 36.5 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Afula?

The warmest month in Afula is August (27.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (11.1 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Afula?

Afula receives on average 464 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 64 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Afula?

Afula gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Afula (Israel) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 19.6 °C and it receives 464 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is August (27.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (11.1 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Afula averages 0 frost days, 139 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 64 rainy days per year.

Afula has warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.23 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 43.0 °C (on 6 May 1942) and the coldest -2.4 °C (on 8 February 1950).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

AfulaNorthern District

coords: 32.61°, 35.29°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CsaHot-summer MediterraneanWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthAugust

Mean daily temperature

19.6°C

Average daily high

25.8°C

Average daily low

14.5°C

Annual rainfall

464mm

Sunshine / day

10.9h

Mean relative humidity

68%

Average peak wind

14.2km/h

Seasonal range

16.2°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

139 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

64 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

26.2 °C

Average feels-like low

14.7 °C

Average peak gust

35.3 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

87 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.2 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.0 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.47 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

43.0 °C

6 May 1942

Coldest day

-2.4 °C

8 February 1950

Wettest day

57 mm

8 January 2013

Windiest day

36.5 km/h

20 February 2001

Strongest gust

90.4 km/h

20 February 2001

Hottest feels-like

47.0 °C

13 August 2025

Coldest feels-like

-6.2 °C

8 February 1950

Snowiest day

0.6 cm

6 February 1950

Sunniest day

13.6 h

3 July 1944

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	41.5 °C13 August 2025	1.0 °C25 February 2025	21.5 °C	302 mm	165	0
2024	39.4 °C3 June 2024	4.9 °C1 February 2024	21.5 °C	452 mm	152	0
2023	40.4 °C2 June 2023	4.6 °C14 February 2023	21.3 °C	482 mm	154	0
2022	38.7 °C28 August 2022	0.7 °C18 January 2022	20.5 °C	383 mm	156	0
2021	38.7 °C7 August 2021	3.6 °C22 January 2021	21.2 °C	332 mm	165	0
2020	42.1 °C4 September 2020	3.9 °C26 January 2020	21.0 °C	522 mm	162	0
2019	42.2 °C23 May 2019	2.8 °C13 January 2019	20.7 °C	582 mm	169	0
2018	41.2 °C25 July 2018	5.2 °C2 February 2018	21.4 °C	598 mm	160	0
2017	39.5 °C3 July 2017	2.6 °C3 February 2017	20.5 °C	235 mm	149	0
2016	40.0 °C15 May 2016	1.0 °C28 January 2016	20.9 °C	406 mm	162	0
2015	42.4 °C2 August 2015	1.1 °C6 December 2015	20.4 °C	416 mm	143	0
2014	39.2 °C4 June 2014	2.8 °C6 February 2014	20.3 °C	375 mm	134	0
2013	37.6 °C13 September 2013	1.4 °C15 December 2013	20.2 °C	425 mm	146	0
2012	39.4 °C18 July 2012	2.7 °C19 March 2012	20.5 °C	544 mm	164	0
2011	38.7 °C25 July 2011	2.3 °C6 December 2011	19.8 °C	500 mm	130	0
2010	41.6 °C20 August 2010	3.1 °C7 February 2010	21.8 °C	317 mm	170	0
2009	39.5 °C1 July 2009	1.4 °C14 January 2009	20.4 °C	421 mm	157	0
2008	39.8 °C24 April 2008	-2.4 °C15 January 2008	20.2 °C	361 mm	151	4
2007	39.5 °C28 July 2007	0.9 °C31 December 2007	20.1 °C	411 mm	149	0
2006	40.2 °C29 September 2006	2.2 °C29 December 2006	19.5 °C	380 mm	142	0
2005	37.8 °C15 August 2005	1.6 °C13 February 2005	19.7 °C	394 mm	140	0
2004	39.6 °C14 July 2004	1.6 °C17 December 2004	20.0 °C	413 mm	155	0
2003	40.5 °C29 May 2003	5.2 °C1 March 2003	20.3 °C	517 mm	163	0
2002	42.6 °C31 July 2002	3.0 °C14 January 2002	20.5 °C	489 mm	148	0
2001	40.8 °C2 June 2001	2.3 °C29 January 2001	20.7 °C	290 mm	161	0
2000	40.3 °C30 July 2000	2.4 °C14 January 2000	19.9 °C	406 mm	141	0
1999	40.9 °C23 May 1999	2.8 °C30 November 1999	20.5 °C	248 mm	148	0
1998	41.1 °C9 August 1998	1.7 °C10 January 1998	20.5 °C	436 mm	155	0
1997	38.1 °C8 June 1997	0.2 °C8 February 1997	19.5 °C	537 mm	142	0
1996	40.0 °C6 September 1996	3.7 °C14 January 1996	19.9 °C	529 mm	139	0
1995	40.3 °C23 May 1995	3.7 °C24 January 1995	19.4 °C	318 mm	132	0
1994	41.5 °C13 September 1994	2.6 °C8 December 1994	19.9 °C	629 mm	153	0
1993	39.3 °C23 June 1993	-1.6 °C18 January 1993	19.2 °C	322 mm	143	1
1992	37.0 °C27 June 1992	-0.6 °C10 February 1992	18.2 °C	584 mm	126	1
1991	35.8 °C8 May 1991	2.1 °C30 December 1991	19.2 °C	590 mm	135	0
1990	37.0 °C27 May 1990	-0.2 °C25 January 1990	19.2 °C	340 mm	134	1
1989	38.5 °C14 June 1989	-0.7 °C4 February 1989	19.0 °C	326 mm	143	2
1988	41.3 °C16 May 1988	2.2 °C9 January 1988	19.2 °C	563 mm	136	0
1987	39.1 °C15 September 1987	2.2 °C8 January 1987	18.9 °C	431 mm	136	0
1986	38.5 °C18 September 1986	2.2 °C7 December 1986	19.1 °C	463 mm	132	0
1985	40.1 °C3 June 1985	1.0 °C2 March 1985	19.2 °C	375 mm	136	0
1984	36.6 °C22 September 1984	1.6 °C11 December 1984	18.6 °C	491 mm	142	0
1983	40.7 °C11 July 1983	0.1 °C29 January 1983	18.5 °C	479 mm	120	0
1982	36.9 °C12 August 1982	0.7 °C5 February 1982	18.4 °C	433 mm	129	0
1981	38.4 °C25 September 1981	3.1 °C20 January 1981	19.0 °C	408 mm	144	0
1980	41.5 °C31 May 1980	1.4 °C31 January 1980	19.2 °C	514 mm	139	0
1979	39.0 °C28 September 1979	4.9 °C14 January 1979	19.6 °C	431 mm	138	0
1978	40.8 °C9 July 1978	2.3 °C14 January 1978	19.2 °C	401 mm	142	0
1977	40.2 °C24 August 1977	0.6 °C15 January 1977	19.1 °C	481 mm	134	0
1976	35.5 °C7 October 1976	0.6 °C3 March 1976	18.9 °C	402 mm	125	0
1975	37.5 °C11 June 1975	1.8 °C15 January 1975	18.9 °C	416 mm	119	0
1974	38.0 °C27 September 1974	1.4 °C24 January 1974	19.1 °C	569 mm	142	0
1973	39.2 °C29 September 1973	-0.4 °C3 January 1973	18.9 °C	396 mm	139	3
1972	40.1 °C17 September 1972	-0.5 °C27 December 1972	18.7 °C	553 mm	118	1
1971	38.3 °C19 June 1971	1.3 °C17 December 1971	18.8 °C	773 mm	119	0
1970	42.0 °C21 May 1970	2.0 °C17 December 1970	19.1 °C	493 mm	123	0
1969	40.7 °C22 May 1969	3.8 °C30 January 1969	19.4 °C	555 mm	121	0
1968	39.9 °C14 August 1968	1.3 °C2 February 1968	19.3 °C	565 mm	109	0
1967	36.9 °C21 May 1967	-0.7 °C24 January 1967	18.5 °C	614 mm	98	1
1966	41.1 °C3 June 1966	3.1 °C23 March 1966	19.9 °C	439 mm	125	0
1965	41.5 °C13 June 1965	3.8 °C25 February 1965	19.4 °C	459 mm	134	0
1964	38.6 °C31 May 1964	-1.7 °C20 January 1964	18.8 °C	520 mm	130	3
1963	39.4 °C7 June 1963	1.4 °C28 December 1963	19.9 °C	462 mm	134	0
1962	39.9 °C11 June 1962	4.1 °C23 February 1962	20.1 °C	352 mm	145	0
1961	40.0 °C7 June 1961	2.6 °C16 January 1961	18.9 °C	561 mm	122	0
1960	38.6 °C5 July 1960	3.4 °C24 January 1960	20.2 °C	339 mm	153	0
1959	38.7 °C10 June 1959	-0.6 °C7 February 1959	18.4 °C	363 mm	112	3
1958	38.9 °C14 June 1958	2.6 °C1 February 1958	19.8 °C	303 mm	124	0
1957	38.6 °C29 May 1957	-0.8 °C23 January 1957	19.2 °C	673 mm	127	2
1956	41.3 °C24 July 1956	2.2 °C31 March 1956	19.0 °C	461 mm	113	0
1955	36.9 °C12 June 1955	3.3 °C6 January 1955	19.7 °C	473 mm	145	0
1954	38.3 °C22 August 1954	2.5 °C14 January 1954	19.3 °C	609 mm	131	0
1953	37.7 °C20 July 1953	0.8 °C12 December 1953	18.6 °C	812 mm	123	0
1952	39.9 °C25 May 1952	2.5 °C4 March 1952	19.5 °C	423 mm	131	0
1951	37.1 °C10 September 1951	3.6 °C18 January 1951	19.5 °C	549 mm	130	0
1950	37.2 °C18 May 1950	-2.4 °C8 February 1950	19.0 °C	400 mm	133	6
1949	37.0 °C10 May 1949	-0.9 °C9 January 1949	18.2 °C	653 mm	110	3
1948	36.9 °C4 July 1948	1.5 °C31 December 1948	18.4 °C	658 mm	124	0
1947	37.5 °C13 July 1947	4.0 °C26 December 1947	19.8 °C	421 mm	145	0
1946	41.8 °C8 September 1946	1.6 °C24 January 1946	19.4 °C	410 mm	139	0
1945	39.9 °C11 July 1945	1.2 °C6 February 1945	18.7 °C	464 mm	128	0
1944	42.1 °C14 June 1944	2.6 °C17 January 1944	19.0 °C	534 mm	141	0
1943	41.5 °C30 September 1943	1.4 °C7 March 1943	19.0 °C	471 mm	136	0
1942	43.0 °C6 May 1942	-1.6 °C6 January 1942	19.2 °C	472 mm	151	4
1941	41.0 °C25 May 1941	3.3 °C3 January 1941	19.5 °C	575 mm	148	0
1940	41.8 °C2 June 1940	1.9 °C16 January 1940	19.1 °C	460 mm	135	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.3 °C

+1.5 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

165 d/yr

+26

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

302 mm

-162 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	19.0 °C	+2.8 °C	28 mm	-72 mm
Feb	15.8 °C	-1.5 °C	64 mm	-21 mm
Mar	23.5 °C	+3.4 °C	23 mm	-49 mm
Apr	26.0 °C	+1.5 °C	7 mm	-26 mm
May	29.9 °C	+1.2 °C	10 mm	-1 mm
Jun	32.6 °C	+0.8 °C	0 mm	-3 mm
Jul	35.0 °C	+1.3 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Aug	35.3 °C	+1.2 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Sep	33.1 °C	+0.6 °C	6 mm	+3 mm
Oct	30.0 °C	+0.9 °C	2 mm	-19 mm
Nov	27.5 °C	+4.1 °C	52 mm	+1 mm
Dec	19.2 °C	+1.2 °C	111 mm	+25 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

41.5 °C

13 Aug 2025

Coldest day

1.0 °C

25 Feb 2025

Wettest day

30.2 mm

27 Dec 2025

Windiest day

27.8 km/h

20 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

70.6 km/h

20 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

47.0 °C

13 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-2.2 °C

25 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

13.5 h

29 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Afula?

Afula has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.6 °C and it receives 464 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Afula?

The hottest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 6 May 1942, reaching 43.0 °C.

What is the coldest day in Afula?

The coldest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 8 February 1950, at -2.4 °C.

Does it snow in Afula?

Almost never: Afula sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Afula warmed?

Yes: Afula warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Afula?

The wettest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 8 January 2013, with 57 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Afula?

The windiest day measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 20 February 2001, with winds reaching 36.5 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Afula?

The warmest month in Afula is August (27.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (11.1 °C).

How much does it rain in Afula?

Afula receives on average 464 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 64 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Afula?

Afula gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Afula?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Afula between 1940 and 2025 was 6 February 1950, with 0.6 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Afula?

Yes: Afula has on average 87 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Afula?

In Afula, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 47.0 °C on 13 August 2025, and the lowest was -6.2 °C on 8 February 1950.

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