Climate Sakhir Air Base 2020-2024

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Bahrain International Airport (OBBI) between 2020 and 2024.

VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	83.9	97	82	84	78	93
February	88.5	94	96	94	88	89
March	89.8	98	100	85	92	83
April	92.8		99	88	98	92
May	91.1		97	81	99	97
June	93.8		97	93	90	100
July	86.9		95	83	96	95
August	89.6		92	93	94	98
September	86.4		91	100	98	98
October	91.2		97	90	93	94
November	95.0		95	98	94	97
December	87.2		87	96	92	94
Average	90.3	96.1	94.1	89.6	92.9	94.3

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VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	93.6	100	93	94	91	97
February	96.4	99	98	100	97	96
March	96.9	99	100	95	98	95
April	98.0		100	97	100	98
May	95.9		98	88	100	100
June	98.4		99	100	97	100
July	97.5		97	100	99	100
August	98.7		98	99	100	100
September	97.9		99	100	100	100
October	99.3		100	99	99	100
November	98.8		99	99	99	100
December	96.2		96	100	99	100
Average	97.5	99.2	98.1	97.3	98.2	98.9

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	21.3	23	20	20	22	21
February	22.0	22	23	22	23	22
March	25.9	25	26	26	27	26
April	30.7		30	31	33	31
May	35.9		35	34	38	35
June	38.8		38	40	38	39
July	40.2		41	39	41	41
August	40.1		41	40	41	40
September	38.2		38	38	37	39
October	34.1		35	34	34	33
November	28.5		28	30	29	29
December	23.7		25	25	24	23
Average	30.7	23.6	31.7	31.8	32.1	31.5

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Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	16.4	19	16	16	17	16
February	16.6	18	17	17	17	16
March	19.6	20	21	19	20	20
April	23.8		23	24	24	24
May	28.5		29	28	30	28
June	31.5		32	31	31	31
July	33.1		33	33	33	34
August	33.4		34	34	34	33
September	31.6		32	32	31	32
October	28.2		29	28	28	27
November	23.7		24	25	24	24
December	19.0		20	21	19	19
Average	24.6	18.6	25.8	25.7	25.6	25.2

1st lowest temperature of Bahrain

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	2.6	1	12	2	0	5
February	3.0	1	1	1	3	0
March	2.7	5	3	0	1	1
April	1.8		2	2	1	4
May	0.1		0	0	0	0
June	0.0		0	0	0	0
July	0.0		0	0	0	0
August	0.0		0	0	0	0
September	0.0		0	0	0	0
October	0.3		0	0	0	0
November	2.5		5	0	0	3
December	1.3		0	0	4	0
Average	1.2	2.1	1.6	0.3	0.6	1.0

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month	Average	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	10.1	10	9	10	10	10
February	11.1	12	11	11	11	11
March	10.2	10	9	13	11	11
April	10.0		10	9	10	9
May	10.0		10	14	9	10
June	12.1		12	10	14	13
July	9.4		9	9	9	8
August	9.0		8	8	8	11
September	8.3		9	9	11	7
October	8.2		9	7	10	8
November	8.9		9	8	9	8
December	9.8		9	10	10	11
Average	9.9	10.6	9.6	9.7	10.1	9.7

1st highest wind speed of Bahrain

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020
January	321°	317°	317°	315°	303°
February	337°	343°	324°	324°	327°
March	345°	352°	333°	331°	006°
April		335°	339°	337°	052°
May		342°	330°	333°	335°
June		326°	338°	321°	320°
July		333°	016°	014°	036°
August		016°	045°	005°	328°
September		339°	346°	327°	009°
October		333°	353°	339°	323°
November		331°	323°	314°	303°
December		315°	321°	307°	306°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.