Old City of Sana'a

Yemen

A living museum of spectacular geometrical mud-brick towers decorated with brilliant white gypsum patterns.

Warmest month is June at 28°C on average. Coolest is January at 22°C. Driest reading falls in December with 0 rain days.

Six lead datapoints

MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January22°±2°2
February24°±2°2
March24°±2°4
April24°±3°10
May26°±3°8
June28°±2°5
July27°±3°11
August25°±3°21
September26°±2°7
October24°±2°1
November23°±2°1
December22°±2°0

What to do

  • Wander the bustling Souk al-Milh market
  • Photograph the stained-glass windows of traditional tower houses
  • Visit the Great Mosque of Sana'a

How we know this

Values are the average of the last ten calendar years of daily readings from Visual Crossing, snapped to the destination cluster. Swing is the p10 to p90 range of daily highs, halved for the ± figure. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.