Amman weather by month & the best time to visit

🇯🇴 Jordan · city break · hot desert climate

The best time to visit Amman is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 99/100), with October and April close behind. Amman averages about 3,559 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 30°C / 86°F and roughly 3 mm of rain in May.

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Sun hours / year

3,559

Sunniest month

May

Peak score

99/100

Rain / year

141 mm

Midday UV at peak

12 (extreme)

Population

1.3M

Elevation

720 m

When is the best time to visit Amman?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Amman is May, then October and April. The dullest month is January (39/100, 35 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Amman?

Amman is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,559 hours of sunshine a year. 60 Sunshine Score points separate May (99) from January (39), so the month you pick matters. It is the less sunny of the two destinations tracked in Jordan. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 65% of the year's 141 mm falls in the three months around January.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Tel Aviv Israel · 109 km · best in May · 3,298 h sun/yr
• Damascus Syria · 194 km · best in May · 3,468 h sun/yr
• Beirut Lebanon · 238 km · best in Jun · 3,247 h sun/yr
• Tabuk Saudi Arabia · 378 km · best in Feb · 4,052 h sun/yr
• Larnaca Cyprus · 414 km · best in Jun · 3,200 h sun/yr
• Sharm El Sheikh Egypt · 444 km · best in Jan · 3,742 h sun/yr

Nearest destinations

• Gurayat Saudi Arabia · 127 km · 3,747 h sun/yr · best in Oct
• Haifa Israel · 150 km · 3,334 h sun/yr · best in Aug
• El Arish Egypt · 219 km · 3,201 h sun/yr · best in May

Head-to-head

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