Riyadh
It is 107.2°F at King Khaled International Airport, 15:00 local on Monday. Riyadh is the 5th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 2nd hottest capital right now.
15:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 102.6°F.
Sunday, 2 August 2020
Source: GHCN-Daily
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 107.6°F, set in 1997. Today reached 107.2°F.
The whole record bookUlan Bator, at 32.0°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Ulan BatorWhere Riyadh stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #5
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #2
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- July
- 111.2°F
- Widest annual swing
- #29
- of 139
Riyadh by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan69.8°FHigh 87.8°F · 31 Jan 1994Low 22.3°F · 17 Jan 2008
- Feb75.0°FHigh 95.0°F · 8 Feb 2006Low 26.1°F · 7 Feb 1989
- Mar82.2°FHigh 100.9°F · 25 Mar 2021Low 36.3°F · 4 Mar 1985
- Apr92.5°FHigh 107.6°F · 29 Apr 2002Low 48.0°F · 2 Apr 2016
- May103.5°FHigh 114.8°F · 31 May 1994Low 59.0°F · 1 May 2001
- Jun109.2°FHigh 118.0°F · 26 Jun 1994Low 64.4°F · 6 Jun 2002
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
8 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Riyadh by annual mean.
- N'Djamena 96.8°F
- Ouagadougou 95.9°F
- Bamako 94.5°F
- Doha 91.9°F
- Banjul 91.8°F
- Kuwait City 91.6°F
How Riyadh’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Riyadh?
The archive held here for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia starts in 1984, which is 41 years of record, across 23,120 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Riyadh's temperature?
King Khaled International Airport (OERK), 614 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.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Riyadh?
119.8°F, on 2 August 2020, in the record held for King Khaled 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 Riyadh?
22.3°F, on 17 January 2008, 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 King Khaled 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.
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