1Abu Dhabi is the 6th warmest of 224 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2August is the hottest month here, averaging 109.2°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 120.7°F, on 7 July 2017, and it has stood for 8 years. Source: GHCN-Daily𝕏
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1983 at Abu Dhabi International Airport, and the archive holds 22,768 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 3 readings a day, via WMO SYNOP bulletins.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 16 m above sea level, the 10th highest of 15 stations we hold in United Arab Emirates.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Abu Dhabi by annual mean.
August is the warmest month at Abu Dhabi International Airport, averaging a daily high of 109.2°F. That is an average of every August day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Abu Dhabi?+−
January is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 76.1°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 65.1°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Abu Dhabi?+−
120.7°F, on 7 July 2017, in the record held for Abu Dhabi International Airport. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Abu Dhabi?+−
34.0°F, on 31 December 2004, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from WMO SYNOP bulletins at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
33.1°F between August and January, the 67th widest swing among the 224 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 34 Augusts, 1983 to 2024, this station's August average has risen about 0.9° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 6 OctoberRecord for the date: 108.3°F, in 1997. Today reached 97.0°F, 11.3°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 9th of 9,532 reporting stations, across the 12 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
5It has reached the world's hottest 100 stations on 12 of those 12 days. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
67 of the last 7 days here passed 30°C. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
1January is the coolest month, averaging 76.1°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 33.1°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 67th widest of 224 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 17.3°F, on 2 October 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within United Arab Emirates its best placing is 1st of 15 stations, over the 12 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
What is the weather in Abu Dhabi right now?+−
97.0°F at Abu Dhabi International Airport, measured at 16:00 local on Tuesday, 6 October 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Abu Dhabi?+−
The archive held here for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates starts in 1983, which is 42 years of record, and 22,768 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Abu Dhabi's temperature?+−
Abu Dhabi International Airport (OMAA), 16 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from WMO SYNOP bulletins and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Abu Dhabi's record?+−
The record runs from 1983 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 13 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 34. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Abu Dhabi getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 34 Augusts between 1983 and 2024, the average August high at Abu Dhabi International Airport has risen about 0.9°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Abu Dhabi compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 6th warmest of the 224 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 67th by the width of its annual swing. N'Djamena, Ouagadougou, Bamako sit closest to it on that ranking.
When is Abu Dhabi hottest?+−
August, averaging 109.2°F across the record, with January the coolest at 76.1°F. That is a swing of 33.1°F across the year.
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