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Dakhla's weather extremes

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Dakhla has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do. This station's daily record ended in 2022, so these are historical extremes from that period, not records updated to today.

Based on 49 years of daily weather observations (1973–2022), from the Villa Cisneros(Mil) station 9 km away. Updated through April 2022 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Dakhla has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
104°F Aug 18, 2021

That is about 25°F hotter than a normal August afternoon in Dakhla (typical high near 79°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 104°F Aug 18, 2021recent
2 103°F Jul 6, 1990
3 103°F Oct 18, 1995
❄️ Coldest night
37°F Mar 23, 1974

About 24°F colder than a normal March night in Dakhla (typical low near 61°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 37°F Mar 23, 1974
2 37°F Feb 5, 1994
3 41°F Mar 1, 1973
🌧️ Most rain in one day
14.25 in Oct 11, 1998

More rain in a single day than Dakhla usually gets in the whole month of October (typical October total about 0.1 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 14.25 in Oct 11, 1998
2 7.91 in Sep 2, 1993
3 2.40 in Nov 20, 1993

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

10°30°50°70°90°110°130° all-time high 104°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Dakhla's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — August's 104°F is about 25°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Dakhla's warmest days reach the low 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the mid-50s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 104°F and as low as 37°F. A single day has delivered over 14 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 11 years of daily observations at Villa Cisneros(mil), a weather station, about 9 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →