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Weather extremes
Riyadh's weather extremes
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Riyadh 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.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Riyadh has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 8°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Riyadh (typical high near 110°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 20°F colder than a normal January night in Riyadh (typical low near 48°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Riyadh usually gets in the whole month of February (typical February total about 0.2 in).
The three most extreme on record
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.
Riyadh's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 118°F is about 8°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
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 20 years of daily observations at Riyadh Obs. (o.a.p., a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.