Climate
Safed has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cold, rainy and occasionally snowy winters. The city receives 682 mm (27 in) of precipitation per year. Summers are rainless and hot with an average high temperature of 29 °C (84 °F) and an average low temperature of 18 °C (64 °F). Winters are cold and wet, and precipitation is occasionally in the form of snow. Winters have an average high temperature of 10 °C (50 °F) and an average low temperature of 5 °C (41 °F).
| Climate data for Safed | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 21.7 (71.1) |
21.2 (70.2) |
24.2 (75.6) |
32.4 (90.3) |
38.1 (100.6) |
40.0 (104.0) |
39.0 (102.2) |
38.7 (101.7) |
36.8 (98.2) |
33.1 (91.6) |
27.5 (81.5) |
24.4 (75.9) |
40.0 (104.0) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 9.4 (48.9) |
10.1 (50.2) |
13.3 (55.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
25.0 (77.0) |
28.3 (82.9) |
29.8 (85.6) |
29.8 (85.6) |
28.1 (82.6) |
23.7 (74.7) |
16.7 (62.1) |
11.5 (52.7) |
20.4 (68.7) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 4.5 (40.1) |
4.3 (39.7) |
6.3 (43.3) |
10.6 (51.1) |
14.3 (57.7) |
17.0 (62.6) |
18.8 (65.8) |
18.8 (65.8) |
17.7 (63.9) |
15.1 (59.2) |
10.3 (50.5) |
6.4 (43.5) |
12.0 (53.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −3.6 (25.5) |
−9 (15.8) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
0.3 (32.5) |
5.8 (42.4) |
8.7 (47.7) |
13.2 (55.8) |
14 (57) |
12 (54) |
7.2 (45.0) |
0.1 (32.2) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
−9 (15.8) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 158.8 (6.252) |
129.7 (5.106) |
94.9 (3.736) |
43.1 (1.697) |
5.7 (0.224) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
0.0 (0) |
1.5 (0.059) |
24.5 (0.965) |
85.5 (3.366) |
138.4 (5.449) |
682.1 (26.854) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 15 | 13.1 | 11.7 | 5.9 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 9.0 | 13.1 | 75.5 |
| Source: Israel Meteorological Service | |||||||||||||
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