Riyadhtemperature
It is 55.4°F at Riyadh/King Khaled Intl, 06:00 local on Friday. Riyadh is the 8th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean, and the 130th hottest of the 184 capitals reporting right now.
24 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 88.9°F.
Source: METAR reports from the aerodrome · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
2 August 2020. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1984 to 2025
17 January 2008. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1984 to 2025
Where Riyadh stands
Riyadh by month
Normal high · record high with its day · record low with its day- 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
Within 330 km · 6 stations reporting25 Julys at Riyadh/King Khaled Intl
Full trend →Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Riyadh by annual mean.
- Juba 93.7°F
- Djibouti 92.5°F
- Nay Pyi Taw 92.5°F
- Bissau 92.1°F
- Doha 91.9°F
- Phnom Penh 91.9°F
How Riyadh’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in Riyadh?
July is the warmest month at Riyadh/King Khaled Intl, averaging a daily high of 111.2°F. That is an average of every July day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Riyadh?
January is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 69.8°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 73.4°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Riyadh?
119.8°F, on 2 August 2020, in the record held for Riyadh/King Khaled Intl. 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.
What is the weather in Riyadh right now?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from METAR reports from the aerodrome at Riyadh/King Khaled Intl. 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.