Discover the best time of year, based on historical climate, temperature, and precipitation.
The best weather in Jeddah is from January, February, December. — consistent weather climate
🌡Hot & dry
| Score | 93 | 95 | 88 | 70 | 46 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 27 | 69 | 90 |
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| Climate | Pleasant | Pleasant | Pleasant | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Pleasant |
| Temperature | 20–27°C | 20–28°C | 21–30°C | 24–32°C | 26–34°C | 27–35°C | 28–36°C | 29–36°C | 28–35°C | 26–34°C | 24–31°C | 22–29°C |
| Feels like | 19–27°C | 19–28°C | 22–30°C | 25–33°C | 28–37°C | 30–38°C | 32–39°C | 34–40°C | 33–40°C | 30–38°C | 26–33°C | 22–30°C |
| Precipitation | 19mm 3 days | 8mm 2 days | 4mm 0 days | 7mm 1 days | 0mm 0 days | 0mm 0 days | 0mm 0 days | 1mm 0 days | 0mm 0 days | 4mm 0 days | 42mm 3 days | 17mm 3 days |
| Sunshine | 10.3h ☀︎ 94% | 10.5h ☀︎ 92% | 10.8h ☀︎ 90% | 11.6h ☀︎ 92% | 12.2h ☀︎ 93% | 12.2h ☀︎ 91% | 11.9h ☀︎ 90% | 11.2h ☀︎ 87% | 10.9h ☀︎ 89% | 10.7h ☀︎ 92% | 10.0h ☀︎ 90% | 10.0h ☀︎ 92% |
| Wind | N · 26 km/h | NW · 28 km/h | NW · 29 km/h | NW · 28 km/h | NW · 27 km/h | NW · 28 km/h | NW · 27 km/h | W · 26 km/h | NW · 26 km/h | NW · 24 km/h | NW · 22 km/h | N · 24 km/h |
| Humidity (%) | 62% | 61% | 62% | 59% | 59% | 60% | 57% | 65% | 70% | 69% | 66% | 62% |
| Day length | 11.0h | 11.4h | 12.0h | 12.6h | 13.2h | 13.4h | 13.3h | 12.8h | 12.3h | 11.6h | 11.1h | 10.8h |
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Standard advice points to February for Jeddah's most flawless air, but December is the real masterstroke: you trade a negligible whisper of heat for noticeably thinner crowds, open pathways through ancient coral-stone alleys, and a waterfront humming with cultural electricity.
For fourteen centuries, Jeddah has served as the threshold to Islam's holiest sanctuaries, Mecca and Medina. That sacred geography shaped its spirit, but the city itself lives by the rhythms of the Red Sea—a historic maritime merchant hub where traders, pilgrims, and coastal breezes have mingled since the seventh century. Most travelers arrive here expecting either endless religious transit or an unnavigable Arabian furnace. Both assumptions miss the truth. Jeddah has seasons where the air softens, the corniche comes alive with late-night chatter, and life spills gracefully onto the pavement. The trick is knowing when the sea cools down enough to let you breathe, and avoiding the trap of peak congestion.
A pure thermometer reading will tell you February is Jeddah's crown jewel. The afternoon highs settle right around twenty-eight degrees, humidity recedes to a benign whisper, and the outdoor comfort is as close to perfection as the Hejaz coast ever gets. But that sterile meteorological view hides the crowd dynamic. By midwinter, the entire Arabian Peninsula has descended on the coast. Waterfront promenades thicken to bumper-to-bumper crawls, and the labyrinthine lanes of the old quarter pack tight.
December delivers nearly identical coastal breezes with far more room to move. Apparent temperatures stay under thirty degrees, the sun strikes the historic coral stone at a gentle angle, and the city carries an intoxicating creative charge with the arrival of the Red Sea International Film Festival. Directors, artists, and locals wander between open-air screenings and restored merchant houses in Al-Balad without the suffocating foot traffic of late winter.
In January and February, the air remains impeccably comfortable, but the pace becomes hurried and prices climb as regional tourism peaks. If you want the waterfront to feel like an open expanse rather than an outdoor convention, claim December.
March begins gently enough, but by the middle of the month, the sea breeze loses its refreshing bite. Temperatures creep past thirty degrees, and the air takes on a heavier, moist weight. It is still workable for evening walks along the Jeddah Corniche, but midday roaming begins to demand refuge indoors.
Then comes April, the most crowded month on the calendar and the moment the season pivots violently. Despite climate scores plunging toward summertime discomfort, visitor volume hits its absolute annual peak. The convergence of domestic holidays and heavy pilgrimage traffic passing through toward Mecca creates relentless gridlock across major transit arteries.
April looks tempting on paper to travelers accustomed to Mediterranean springs, but the reality on the ground is punishing. You get the fierce onset of coastal humidity combined with the highest density of people you will encounter all year. If your schedule forces a trip during the first third of the year, make it happen before the vernal equinox.
From May through September, Jeddah is not a daylight city. The Red Sea turns into a warm bath, sending thick, soupy humidity inland that traps daytime temperatures well up into the thirties and pushes apparent warmth past forty degrees. To step out of an air-conditioned room at two in the afternoon is to walk headfirst into a wet thermal blanket.
The city's response to this annual siege is fascinating: it simply shifts its entire civic life to the hours between sunset and dawn. Jeddah Season transforms the summer months into an nocturnal carnival of light shows, concerts, and harbor entertainment, drawing vast crowds from across the Gulf who sleep away the sweltering afternoons and emerge after dark. Life doesn't stop; it merely trades the sun for floodlights.
May and June bring an immense logistical layer as millions of pilgrims pass through Jeddah Islamic Port and the city's airports for the Hajj pilgrimage. Unless you are part of the pilgrimage itself, these weeks will test your patience with congested transit, booked infrastructure, and soaring logistics. August and September are the physical nadir—August even carries the bizarre threat of sudden, intense summer cloudbursts that dump heavy rain into the humid air, turning the streets into slick steam baths. Avoid this stretch entirely if your idea of travel involves walking anywhere during daylight.
October lingers under the tail end of summer's heavy hand. While temperatures edge down from the extreme highs of August, the air remains thick and stagnant, offering little genuine relief. The crowds have thinned, but the reward for enduring the heat simply is not there yet.
November brings the dramatic break. The furnace finally clicks off, and comfortable breezes sweep off the water again. However, November is also Jeddah's wettest month, famous along the coast for abrupt, heavy downpours that can drop intense rainfall in brief, disruptive spells. The city's coastal drainage often struggles with these torrential autumn bursts, temporarily washing out outdoor plans.
If you navigate the rain bursts, late November can be lovely, but it essentially acts as the damp runway for December. Waiting those extra few weeks gives you the dry skies, the film screenings in the heritage district, and the finest urban weather in the country.