Hun climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Hun?

Hun has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.5 °C and it receives 22 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 29 June 1997, reaching 46.5 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Hun?

The coldest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 21 December 1940, at -5.2 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Hun?

Almost never: Hun sees virtually no snow, with about 1 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Hun warmed?

Yes: Hun warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Hun?

The wettest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 1957, with 32 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Hun?

The windiest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 13 March 1956, with winds reaching 60.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Hun?

The warmest month in Hun is July (29.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (11.5 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Hun?

Hun receives on average 22 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 5 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Hun?

Hun gets on average 11.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,052 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Hun (Libya) has a hot desert climate (BWh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 21.5 °C and it receives 22 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 July (29.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (11.5 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.

Hun averages 1 frost days, 166 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 5 rainy days per year.

Hun has warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.30 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 3 to 0 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 46.5 °C (on 29 June 1997) and the coldest -5.2 °C (on 21 December 1940).

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

HunAl Jufrah

coords: 29.13°, 15.95°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BWhHot desertWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthDecemberDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

21.5°C

Average daily high

27.8°C

Average daily low

15.0°C

Annual rainfall

22mm

Sunshine / day

11.1h

Mean relative humidity

43%

Average peak wind

21.4km/h

Seasonal range

17.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

1 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

166 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

5 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

25.5 °C

Average feels-like low

12.8 °C

Average peak gust

34.3 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

112 d/yr

Solar radiation

21.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.6 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.71 · 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

46.5 °C

29 June 1997

Coldest day

-5.2 °C

21 December 1940

Wettest day

32 mm

18 October 1957

Windiest day

60.3 km/h

13 March 1956

Strongest gust

91.1 km/h

7 February 1996

Hottest feels-like

46.7 °C

29 June 1997

Coldest feels-like

-9.5 °C

21 December 1940

Sunniest day

13.8 h

2 July 2025

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	43.6 °C23 May 2025	4.2 °C29 December 2025	23.0 °C	23 mm	182	0
2024	45.3 °C12 June 2024	2.9 °C10 January 2024	23.8 °C	13 mm	187	0
2023	46.2 °C30 July 2023	2.0 °C21 January 2023	22.5 °C	8 mm	183	0
2022	42.4 °C26 June 2022	2.3 °C27 January 2022	22.6 °C	18 mm	170	0
2021	45.8 °C5 July 2021	2.2 °C17 February 2021	23.4 °C	5 mm	188	0
2020	43.5 °C5 June 2020	2.1 °C8 February 2020	22.5 °C	38 mm	181	0
2019	45.8 °C15 July 2019	2.3 °C5 January 2019	22.2 °C	23 mm	176	0
2018	45.2 °C7 June 2018	2.4 °C13 February 2018	23.5 °C	17 mm	197	0
2017	41.8 °C25 July 2017	0.2 °C17 January 2017	21.6 °C	25 mm	161	0
2016	44.3 °C6 June 2016	2.4 °C31 December 2016	23.1 °C	5 mm	203	0
2015	43.6 °C17 August 2015	-0.5 °C1 January 2015	21.9 °C	14 mm	174	1
2014	44.7 °C10 July 2014	2.5 °C31 December 2014	22.9 °C	6 mm	166	0
2013	46.2 °C28 May 2013	1.7 °C9 February 2013	22.9 °C	14 mm	194	0
2012	44.2 °C21 May 2012	1.0 °C7 February 2012	22.1 °C	20 mm	191	0
2011	44.5 °C23 July 2011	1.2 °C21 December 2011	21.4 °C	31 mm	147	0
2010	45.8 °C18 June 2010	-0.8 °C18 December 2010	23.7 °C	27 mm	197	1
2009	44.3 °C10 July 2009	3.1 °C27 February 2009	22.4 °C	9 mm	171	0
2008	43.1 °C10 June 2008	2.3 °C13 December 2008	22.7 °C	27 mm	199	0
2007	44.2 °C3 July 2007	3.0 °C15 December 2007	22.4 °C	10 mm	169	0
2006	44.8 °C17 August 2006	2.0 °C7 January 2006	22.2 °C	36 mm	172	0
2005	44.0 °C17 May 2005	1.1 °C31 January 2005	22.1 °C	17 mm	170	0
2004	42.3 °C12 August 2004	1.7 °C6 January 2004	22.0 °C	13 mm	176	0
2003	43.6 °C5 July 2003	1.4 °C27 December 2003	22.2 °C	14 mm	182	0
2002	45.3 °C11 August 2002	2.0 °C3 January 2002	22.3 °C	10 mm	165	0
2001	43.3 °C11 July 2001	3.1 °C30 December 2001	22.6 °C	7 mm	182	0
2000	42.5 °C12 July 2000	1.4 °C20 January 2000	21.7 °C	17 mm	178	0
1999	44.5 °C14 June 1999	2.2 °C2 February 1999	22.7 °C	18 mm	184	0
1998	42.6 °C14 September 1998	2.9 °C12 December 1998	22.2 °C	8 mm	175	0
1997	46.5 °C29 June 1997	5.0 °C16 December 1997	22.1 °C	13 mm	161	0
1996	44.7 °C10 May 1996	4.0 °C24 February 1996	22.4 °C	23 mm	164	0
1995	43.9 °C25 August 1995	-0.4 °C8 January 1995	22.1 °C	14 mm	158	1
1994	43.0 °C13 June 1994	3.4 °C31 January 1994	21.8 °C	37 mm	161	0
1993	42.7 °C15 September 1993	3.1 °C20 February 1993	21.8 °C	47 mm	180	0
1992	44.3 °C16 June 1992	2.5 °C10 January 1992	21.2 °C	14 mm	166	0
1991	41.9 °C26 July 1991	2.3 °C15 January 1991	21.5 °C	33 mm	171	0
1990	43.7 °C13 June 1990	2.9 °C11 January 1990	22.0 °C	26 mm	175	0
1989	43.7 °C4 June 1989	2.6 °C8 January 1989	21.8 °C	15 mm	167	0
1988	45.8 °C27 June 1988	2.7 °C19 December 1988	22.2 °C	23 mm	171	0
1987	42.6 °C16 June 1987	1.0 °C10 January 1987	21.7 °C	14 mm	164	0
1986	43.9 °C7 June 1986	2.0 °C31 December 1986	21.2 °C	52 mm	152	0
1985	43.5 °C20 June 1985	1.6 °C3 January 1985	21.6 °C	37 mm	158	0
1984	45.3 °C31 May 1984	0.3 °C10 January 1984	21.2 °C	37 mm	166	0
1983	44.2 °C28 June 1983	0.8 °C3 December 1983	21.2 °C	21 mm	152	0
1982	43.3 °C9 August 1982	0.9 °C21 December 1982	21.2 °C	23 mm	170	0
1981	44.1 °C11 July 1981	-2.7 °C11 January 1981	21.6 °C	12 mm	185	7
1980	43.6 °C27 May 1980	0.5 °C6 January 1980	21.1 °C	29 mm	165	0
1979	43.0 °C6 July 1979	-0.5 °C18 January 1979	21.5 °C	10 mm	162	1
1978	44.9 °C20 June 1978	0.6 °C4 January 1978	21.2 °C	31 mm	150	0
1977	44.4 °C26 June 1977	1.6 °C14 January 1977	21.7 °C	22 mm	155	0
1976	43.7 °C28 July 1976	-1.8 °C11 February 1976	20.8 °C	43 mm	149	3
1975	44.0 °C16 June 1975	-1.1 °C14 January 1975	21.0 °C	25 mm	160	2
1974	44.5 °C28 June 1974	2.2 °C10 February 1974	21.1 °C	23 mm	178	0
1973	44.7 °C27 July 1973	0.7 °C6 January 1973	21.2 °C	18 mm	175	0
1972	44.3 °C19 June 1972	0.4 °C23 January 1972	21.8 °C	44 mm	152	0
1971	43.4 °C4 June 1971	1.1 °C4 March 1971	21.3 °C	16 mm	159	0
1970	43.1 °C25 June 1970	0.4 °C1 March 1970	21.1 °C	23 mm	155	0
1969	45.5 °C14 June 1969	-0.2 °C6 January 1969	21.9 °C	50 mm	152	1
1968	45.0 °C11 August 1968	-0.1 °C28 January 1968	21.4 °C	11 mm	156	1
1967	44.2 °C20 June 1967	-0.4 °C9 January 1967	20.7 °C	25 mm	147	1
1966	44.9 °C26 July 1966	0.8 °C10 January 1966	21.2 °C	37 mm	149	0
1965	42.7 °C5 June 1965	-0.4 °C19 December 1965	20.6 °C	32 mm	145	1
1964	43.6 °C28 June 1964	0.1 °C6 January 1964	21.3 °C	17 mm	145	0
1963	42.5 °C16 June 1963	-1.5 °C28 January 1963	21.2 °C	24 mm	152	1
1962	42.5 °C5 June 1962	-1.0 °C2 February 1962	21.1 °C	22 mm	163	1
1961	45.5 °C29 May 1961	-0.4 °C23 December 1961	20.3 °C	14 mm	145	2
1960	45.3 °C9 July 1960	-3.3 °C20 January 1960	21.7 °C	14 mm	178	3
1959	43.5 °C6 August 1959	1.0 °C1 February 1959	20.8 °C	3 mm	157	0
1958	44.3 °C10 July 1958	1.1 °C26 December 1958	21.6 °C	15 mm	164	0
1957	42.6 °C23 July 1957	0.6 °C25 January 1957	20.8 °C	76 mm	165	0
1956	43.2 °C28 June 1956	-1.3 °C9 February 1956	20.4 °C	39 mm	150	4
1955	44.3 °C3 August 1955	1.8 °C1 January 1955	22.3 °C	11 mm	173	0
1954	42.5 °C25 May 1954	-2.0 °C4 February 1954	20.2 °C	14 mm	148	8
1953	42.6 °C8 July 1953	-2.0 °C15 January 1953	20.5 °C	30 mm	164	8
1952	44.9 °C29 July 1952	-2.0 °C22 January 1952	20.8 °C	10 mm	168	5
1951	42.2 °C9 May 1951	0.4 °C5 January 1951	21.2 °C	32 mm	165	0
1950	42.3 °C24 June 1950	-0.8 °C22 January 1950	20.1 °C	20 mm	150	1
1949	43.5 °C30 June 1949	0.4 °C5 March 1949	20.4 °C	13 mm	138	0
1948	44.3 °C4 June 1948	-0.6 °C24 January 1948	20.4 °C	14 mm	156	1
1947	42.7 °C6 September 1947	0.2 °C2 January 1947	21.4 °C	12 mm	150	0
1946	42.3 °C17 June 1946	0.3 °C30 December 1946	21.1 °C	16 mm	168	0
1945	44.7 °C7 July 1945	-4.0 °C9 January 1945	20.2 °C	42 mm	149	8
1944	43.0 °C19 June 1944	-1.2 °C8 January 1944	20.1 °C	11 mm	152	3
1943	40.6 °C8 July 1943	1.8 °C1 February 1943	20.0 °C	35 mm	145	0
1942	41.8 °C15 June 1942	-2.9 °C2 January 1942	20.5 °C	78 mm	157	6
1941	43.2 °C2 August 1941	-3.5 °C1 January 1941	20.6 °C	8 mm	155	12
1940	45.8 °C25 June 1940	-5.2 °C21 December 1940	20.1 °C	11 mm	157	16

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

29.1 °C

+1.3 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

182 d/yr

+16

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

-1

Annual rainfall

23 mm

+1 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	19.4 °C	+2.2 °C	4 mm	+1 mm
Feb	19.8 °C	+0.1 °C	3 mm	+1 mm
Mar	27.6 °C	+4.1 °C	3 mm	-0 mm
Apr	29.2 °C	+0.7 °C	7 mm	+5 mm
May	33.8 °C	+1.3 °C	1 mm	-1 mm
Jun	35.6 °C	-0.4 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Jul	37.5 °C	+1.6 °C	0 mm	0 mm
Aug	37.4 °C	+1.7 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Sep	34.5 °C	+0.8 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Oct	30.1 °C	+1.0 °C	0 mm	-3 mm
Nov	24.3 °C	+1.0 °C	0 mm	-2 mm
Dec	19.1 °C	+0.9 °C	5 mm	+2 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

43.6 °C

23 May 2025

Coldest day

4.2 °C

29 Dec 2025

Wettest day

5.2 mm

8 Apr 2025

Windiest day

46.9 km/h

15 May 2025

Strongest gust

71.6 km/h

15 May 2025

Hottest feels-like

41.9 °C

30 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-0.5 °C

29 Nov 2025

Sunniest day

13.8 h

2 Jul 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Hun?

Hun has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.5 °C and it receives 22 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Hun?

The hottest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 29 June 1997, reaching 46.5 °C.

What is the coldest day in Hun?

The coldest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 21 December 1940, at -5.2 °C.

Does it snow in Hun?

Almost never: Hun sees virtually no snow, with about 1 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Hun warmed?

Yes: Hun warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Hun?

The wettest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 1957, with 32 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Hun?

The windiest day measured in Hun between 1940 and 2025 was 13 March 1956, with winds reaching 60.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Hun?

The warmest month in Hun is July (29.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (11.5 °C).

How much does it rain in Hun?

Hun receives on average 22 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 5 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Hun?

Hun gets on average 11.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,052 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Hun?

Yes: Hun has on average 112 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Hun?

In Hun, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 46.7 °C on 29 June 1997, and the lowest was -9.5 °C on 21 December 1940.

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