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Petra weather by month

Petra runs from about 11°C in February to 29°C in June, with January the wettest month at 38 mm.

warmest month

June

29°C

coolest month

February

11°C

wettest month

January

38 mm

worst air month

January

15 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Petra
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January11°C38 mm300 h15
February11°C25 mm288 h15
March15°C26 mm339 h12
April20°C13 mm361 h14
May22°C1 mm400 h11
June29°C0 mm395 h8
July28°C0 mm409 h9
August27°C0 mm396 h12
September24°C0 mm345 h11
October20°C0 mm339 h9
November15°C14 mm294 h15
December11°C21 mm286 h9

About 4,152 hours of sun a year. Roughly 14 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.