Sa‘īr climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Sa‘īr?

Sa‘īr has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.9 °C and it receives 227 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Sa‘īr?

The hottest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 7 June 1961, reaching 43.9 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Sa‘īr?

The coldest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 7 February 1950, at -5.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Sa‘īr?

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

Q: Has the climate of Sa‘īr warmed?

Yes: Sa‘īr warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Sa‘īr?

The wettest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 17 October 1987, with 66 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Sa‘īr?

The windiest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 10 March 1952, with winds reaching 43.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Sa‘īr?

The warmest month in Sa‘īr is August (27.9 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.9 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Sa‘īr?

Sa‘īr receives on average 227 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 42 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Sa‘īr?

Sa‘īr gets on average 11.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,088 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Sa‘īr (Palestine) has a hot semi-arid climate (BSh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 19.9 °C and it receives 227 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 (27.9 °C on average) and the coldest is January (10.9 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Sa‘īr averages 0 frost days, 139 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 42 rainy days per year.

Sa‘īr has warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.21 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 43.9 °C (on 7 June 1961) and the coldest -5.8 °C (on 7 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

Sa‘īrWest Bank

coords: 31.58°, 35.14°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BShHot semi-aridWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

19.9°C

Average daily high

25.4°C

Average daily low

15.3°C

Annual rainfall

227mm

Sunshine / day

11.2h

Mean relative humidity

58%

Average peak wind

14.6km/h

Seasonal range

17.0°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

139 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

42 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.3 cm

Average feels-like high

25.0 °C

Average feels-like low

14.5 °C

Average peak gust

31.4 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

105 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.4 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.8 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.44 · 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

43.9 °C

7 June 1961

Coldest day

-5.8 °C

7 February 1950

Wettest day

66 mm

17 October 1987

Windiest day

43.3 km/h

10 March 1952

Strongest gust

92.5 km/h

7 January 2015

Hottest feels-like

45.5 °C

13 August 2025

Coldest feels-like

-9.3 °C

7 February 1950

Snowiest day

3.3 cm

5 February 1950

Sunniest day

13.4 h

19 June 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	41.4 °C13 August 2025	1.4 °C25 February 2025	21.2 °C	249 mm	156	0
2024	41.1 °C14 June 2024	4.9 °C1 February 2024	21.3 °C	169 mm	149	0
2023	42.4 °C13 August 2023	5.0 °C14 February 2023	21.5 °C	271 mm	152	0
2022	39.8 °C29 August 2022	2.6 °C16 March 2022	20.9 °C	178 mm	157	0
2021	39.5 °C4 August 2021	5.0 °C21 January 2021	21.6 °C	124 mm	167	0
2020	41.9 °C4 September 2020	4.2 °C25 January 2020	21.2 °C	299 mm	164	0
2019	41.4 °C24 May 2019	5.6 °C11 January 2019	20.8 °C	276 mm	162	0
2018	41.5 °C25 July 2018	6.8 °C9 January 2018	21.6 °C	367 mm	151	0
2017	41.1 °C3 July 2017	3.4 °C3 February 2017	21.0 °C	125 mm	145	0
2016	40.2 °C16 May 2016	1.6 °C28 January 2016	21.2 °C	156 mm	157	0
2015	41.5 °C2 August 2015	1.1 °C10 January 2015	20.6 °C	304 mm	148	0
2014	39.9 °C28 June 2014	4.3 °C5 February 2014	20.8 °C	189 mm	135	0
2013	38.3 °C24 May 2013	2.5 °C15 December 2013	20.7 °C	203 mm	153	0
2012	41.3 °C18 July 2012	4.1 °C9 February 2012	21.0 °C	225 mm	159	0
2011	39.7 °C30 July 2011	5.3 °C7 December 2011	20.2 °C	220 mm	142	0
2010	42.6 °C20 August 2010	3.6 °C6 February 2010	22.5 °C	164 mm	171	0
2009	39.7 °C1 July 2009	3.3 °C2 January 2009	20.9 °C	180 mm	157	0
2008	39.2 °C24 April 2008	1.3 °C14 January 2008	20.8 °C	140 mm	156	0
2007	40.6 °C26 July 2007	4.8 °C31 December 2007	20.5 °C	179 mm	151	0
2006	38.7 °C10 September 2006	4.0 °C29 December 2006	20.1 °C	176 mm	148	0
2005	38.8 °C14 August 2005	2.9 °C10 February 2005	20.2 °C	147 mm	138	0
2004	39.9 °C14 July 2004	3.3 °C17 December 2004	20.3 °C	213 mm	146	0
2003	41.7 °C29 May 2003	4.6 °C25 February 2003	20.4 °C	226 mm	163	0
2002	41.5 °C31 July 2002	4.4 °C12 January 2002	20.5 °C	300 mm	140	0
2001	39.1 °C2 June 2001	4.9 °C28 January 2001	20.8 °C	169 mm	150	0
2000	41.7 °C30 July 2000	2.5 °C29 January 2000	20.3 °C	176 mm	146	0
1999	38.6 °C24 May 1999	5.0 °C21 February 1999	20.9 °C	73 mm	154	0
1998	41.2 °C9 August 1998	1.7 °C12 January 1998	20.8 °C	176 mm	151	0
1997	38.6 °C8 June 1997	2.1 °C6 February 1997	19.7 °C	289 mm	147	0
1996	40.3 °C6 September 1996	4.8 °C20 January 1996	20.3 °C	224 mm	146	0
1995	39.1 °C2 July 1995	5.6 °C21 January 1995	19.8 °C	138 mm	139	0
1994	38.2 °C20 April 1994	4.8 °C10 December 1994	20.1 °C	314 mm	140	0
1993	39.5 °C30 August 1993	1.1 °C15 February 1993	19.7 °C	165 mm	133	0
1992	37.8 °C1 September 1992	1.2 °C10 February 1992	18.5 °C	293 mm	116	0
1991	35.9 °C22 June 1991	2.1 °C27 January 1991	19.6 °C	322 mm	131	0
1990	37.4 °C31 May 1990	2.4 °C25 January 1990	19.6 °C	217 mm	128	0
1989	38.0 °C14 June 1989	2.3 °C5 January 1989	19.6 °C	168 mm	144	0
1988	39.3 °C15 May 1988	4.2 °C18 January 1988	19.5 °C	293 mm	135	0
1987	39.8 °C7 August 1987	3.4 °C8 January 1987	19.4 °C	262 mm	133	0
1986	39.0 °C18 September 1986	4.0 °C21 January 1986	19.6 °C	263 mm	127	0
1985	39.0 °C23 August 1985	3.0 °C3 March 1985	19.7 °C	192 mm	135	0
1984	37.4 °C25 May 1984	4.2 °C7 December 1984	19.3 °C	174 mm	141	0
1983	40.2 °C11 July 1983	3.1 °C27 February 1983	18.7 °C	199 mm	117	0
1982	36.6 °C29 June 1982	2.3 °C17 January 1982	18.8 °C	234 mm	120	0
1981	38.0 °C27 July 1981	3.6 °C25 January 1981	19.5 °C	129 mm	137	0
1980	40.3 °C31 May 1980	3.2 °C30 January 1980	19.7 °C	281 mm	138	0
1979	38.9 °C24 June 1979	4.7 °C24 January 1979	20.2 °C	269 mm	141	0
1978	40.3 °C8 July 1978	4.4 °C16 January 1978	20.0 °C	152 mm	140	0
1977	41.1 °C23 August 1977	4.2 °C8 January 1977	19.7 °C	204 mm	137	0
1976	37.1 °C8 June 1976	1.2 °C2 March 1976	19.3 °C	142 mm	131	0
1975	37.7 °C11 June 1975	3.7 °C12 February 1975	19.4 °C	224 mm	117	0
1974	37.6 °C19 June 1974	1.3 °C23 January 1974	19.4 °C	378 mm	146	0
1973	39.2 °C21 July 1973	2.3 °C2 January 1973	19.6 °C	147 mm	138	0
1972	37.9 °C19 June 1972	2.3 °C23 December 1972	19.0 °C	346 mm	127	0
1971	37.8 °C20 June 1971	2.6 °C14 February 1971	19.2 °C	394 mm	127	0
1970	41.1 °C21 May 1970	3.0 °C21 December 1970	19.6 °C	208 mm	124	0
1969	40.5 °C16 June 1969	3.8 °C29 January 1969	19.9 °C	339 mm	132	0
1968	39.5 °C14 August 1968	2.0 °C2 February 1968	19.7 °C	247 mm	132	0
1967	38.3 °C21 June 1967	2.3 °C23 January 1967	18.6 °C	361 mm	107	0
1966	40.1 °C3 June 1966	3.7 °C23 March 1966	20.2 °C	254 mm	123	0
1965	39.8 °C13 June 1965	5.1 °C24 February 1965	19.6 °C	229 mm	132	0
1964	37.8 °C31 May 1964	-0.3 °C19 January 1964	18.8 °C	234 mm	109	1
1963	40.2 °C7 June 1963	3.0 °C26 December 1963	20.4 °C	256 mm	135	0
1962	38.5 °C11 June 1962	3.7 °C22 February 1962	20.5 °C	120 mm	148	0
1961	43.9 °C7 June 1961	2.5 °C1 March 1961	19.1 °C	238 mm	115	0
1960	39.5 °C5 July 1960	3.5 °C24 January 1960	20.5 °C	193 mm	141	0
1959	39.0 °C11 June 1959	-0.1 °C28 February 1959	18.8 °C	162 mm	113	1
1958	38.9 °C23 August 1958	4.0 °C1 February 1958	20.0 °C	101 mm	123	0
1957	37.5 °C21 August 1957	1.6 °C23 January 1957	19.5 °C	325 mm	121	0
1956	39.6 °C23 July 1956	3.3 °C31 March 1956	19.5 °C	234 mm	112	0
1955	38.2 °C11 June 1955	5.4 °C4 December 1955	20.1 °C	184 mm	142	0
1954	39.9 °C22 August 1954	2.7 °C14 January 1954	19.7 °C	234 mm	138	0
1953	38.4 °C20 July 1953	2.7 °C20 December 1953	18.9 °C	370 mm	127	0
1952	39.9 °C23 August 1952	4.2 °C22 January 1952	20.0 °C	189 mm	137	0
1951	37.2 °C10 September 1951	4.7 °C22 December 1951	19.9 °C	240 mm	130	0
1950	37.7 °C18 May 1950	-5.8 °C7 February 1950	19.4 °C	211 mm	138	5
1949	37.5 °C10 May 1949	1.8 °C9 January 1949	18.6 °C	375 mm	120	0
1948	37.8 °C4 July 1948	2.7 °C1 March 1948	18.6 °C	268 mm	124	0
1947	37.2 °C21 July 1947	5.1 °C20 January 1947	20.3 °C	212 mm	152	0
1946	38.0 °C7 September 1946	3.3 °C20 January 1946	19.9 °C	193 mm	138	0
1945	40.2 °C11 July 1945	3.4 °C1 February 1945	19.0 °C	258 mm	135	0
1944	40.8 °C14 June 1944	3.4 °C15 January 1944	19.6 °C	263 mm	143	0
1943	38.4 °C30 July 1943	2.0 °C7 March 1943	19.5 °C	226 mm	140	0
1942	40.8 °C6 May 1942	-0.4 °C6 January 1942	19.8 °C	210 mm	153	2
1941	39.1 °C25 May 1941	4.6 °C26 December 1941	20.2 °C	226 mm	149	0
1940	38.7 °C1 June 1940	4.0 °C21 December 1940	19.4 °C	224 mm	127	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

26.7 °C

+1.3 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

156 d/yr

+17

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

249 mm

+22 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	16.8 °C	+1.9 °C	23 mm	-23 mm
Feb	14.4 °C	-1.8 °C	38 mm	-3 mm
Mar	21.6 °C	+2.2 °C	38 mm	-0 mm
Apr	26.3 °C	+1.7 °C	5 mm	-11 mm
May	30.4 °C	+1.1 °C	8 mm	+2 mm
Jun	33.8 °C	+1.3 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Jul	36.0 °C	+1.8 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Aug	35.8 °C	+1.5 °C	2 mm	+1 mm
Sep	32.9 °C	+0.7 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Oct	29.2 °C	+1.1 °C	1 mm	-14 mm
Nov	25.0 °C	+3.1 °C	38 mm	+12 mm
Dec	17.4 °C	+0.7 °C	97 mm	+59 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

41.4 °C

13 Aug 2025

Coldest day

1.4 °C

25 Feb 2025

Wettest day

23.0 mm

11 Dec 2025

Windiest day

33.5 km/h

20 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

71.6 km/h

6 Feb 2025

Hottest feels-like

45.5 °C

13 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-2.3 °C

25 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

13.3 h

25 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Sa‘īr?

Sa‘īr has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.9 °C and it receives 227 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Sa‘īr?

The hottest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 7 June 1961, reaching 43.9 °C.

What is the coldest day in Sa‘īr?

The coldest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 7 February 1950, at -5.8 °C.

Does it snow in Sa‘īr?

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

Has the climate of Sa‘īr warmed?

Yes: Sa‘īr warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Sa‘īr?

The wettest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 17 October 1987, with 66 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Sa‘īr?

The windiest day measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 10 March 1952, with winds reaching 43.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Sa‘īr?

The warmest month in Sa‘īr is August (27.9 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.9 °C).

How much does it rain in Sa‘īr?

Sa‘īr receives on average 227 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 42 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Sa‘īr?

Sa‘īr gets on average 11.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 4,088 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Sa‘īr?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Sa‘īr between 1940 and 2025 was 5 February 1950, with 3.3 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Sa‘īr?

Yes: Sa‘īr has on average 105 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Sa‘īr?

In Sa‘īr, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 45.5 °C on 13 August 2025, and the lowest was -9.3 °C on 7 February 1950.

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