Abha [1] [2] ( Arabic: أبها ) is a city in the south-west of Saudi Arabia , the administrative center of the administrative district of Asir . The population according to estimates for 2013 is 485,201 people.
| City | |
| Abha | |
|---|---|
| Arab. أبها | |
 | |
| A country |  Saudi Arabia |
| Administrative District | Asir |
| History and Geography | |
| NUM height | 2261 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 485 201 people |
Abha is located at the western end of the Jibal-Hijaz mountains [3] , not far from the Red Sea coast , at an altitude of 2261 m above sea level [4] .
The climate of the city is characterized as semi-arid. Due to its unique geographical position, it is cooler and wetter than the climate of most of Saudi Arabia. The average annual temperature is 17.5 ° C; the average annual rainfall is 225 mm. The driest month is October, with a norm of 2 mm; the wettest is April with a norm of 48 mm. The warmest month is June, with an average temperature of 22.4 ° C; the coldest is December, whose average temperature is 12.5 ° C [5] .
| Climate of Abha | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Jan | Feb | March | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average maximum, ° C | 19.5 | 20.9 | 22.8 | 25.1 | 28,4 | 30.8 | 30.5 | 30,4 | 29.4 | 25.9 | 22.8 | 20.7 | 25.6 |
| Average temperature, ° C | 13.6 | 15.1 | 17.0 | 18.9 | 21.6 | 23.7 | 23.8 | 23.5 | 22.2 | 18.6 | 15.8 | 14.0 | 19.0 |
| Average minimum ° C | 7.7 | 9.3 | 11.1 | 12.7 | 14.8 | 16.6 | 17.1 | 16.7 | 14.9 | 11,4 | 8.8 | 7.2 | 12,4 |
| Precipitation rate, mm | eighteen | 46 | 59 | 59 | eighteen | 5 | 19 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 278 |
| Source: [1] , [2] | |||||||||||||
The highway along the Red Sea coast connected Abha with Jeddah in 1979 [3] .
Notes
- ↑ States of the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar. Bahrain // Atlas of the world / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 118-119. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ Abha // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / ed. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986.- S. 8.
- ↑ 1 2 Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010), "Abhā", Encyclopedia Britannica , vol. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.), Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., pp. 30, ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8
- ↑ Abha, Saudi Arabia Page . Fallingrain Global Gazetteer. Date of treatment January 18, 2014.
- ↑ Climate: Abha - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table . Climate-Data.org. Date of treatment August 24, 2013.