Salalah during Khareef Season (June to September)<\/p>\n
The city has a hot\u00a0desert climate\u00a0(K\u00f6ppen climate classification\u00a0BWh), although summers are cooler than in more northern or inland parts of Oman. Salalah is very cloudy and foggy during the\u00a0monsoon\u00a0months starting from July till August, even though it has relatively little rain falls.\u00a0Khareef, \u062e\u0631\u064a\u0641\u00a0means “autumn” in Arabic but it refers to monsoon when describing the region around Salalah. During this time, the brown landscape of Salalah and its surroundings are completely transformed to beautiful and lush green scenes. This provides as picturesque scenes for photos.<\/p>\n
Cyclone Mekunu, which originated over the Arabian Sea, became an extremely severe cyclone before hitting the Salalah city on 25\u00a0May 2018. 200 km\/was the recorded windspeed, and the city of Salalah was pounded with over 617\u00a0mm (24.3\u00a0in) of rainfall, which is almost 5 years of Oman’s average rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salalah during Khareef Season (June to September) The city has a hot\u00a0desert climate\u00a0(K\u00f6ppen climate classification\u00a0BWh), although<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,15,70,69,18],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kharif-salalah","tag-salalah","tag-salalah-life","tag-salalah-your","tag-visit-salalah"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/7-e1687617148820.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salalahlife.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}