Hadibu (Socotra) weather by month
The best time to visit Hadibu (Socotra) is January to March — 96/100 in February, 27°C and 0 rainy days. The best season is winter, December to February (94/100 on average).
The worst month is May at 87/100 — sweltering, a little rain, clean air. See May →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Best season: December to February (94/100 on average) · worst May (87/100)
- Days
- 27°C
- Nights
- 22°C
- Wet days
- 0
- Sun
- 10.9 h
- Humidity
- 69%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Hadibu, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Hadibu is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Hadibu through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Hadibu in February
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
BusyRamadan, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Hadibu
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe Socotra's main travel season as running roughly mid-September through the end of April, placing February comfortably within the good-weather window - a real contrast to May and June, which posters flag as the island's monsoon period bringing extremely hot, punishingly windy conditions that make travel genuinely unpleasant. Posters discussing a February visit specifically weighed seaside activities against mountain trekking, suggesting both remain viable options this time of year depending on wind and temperature on a given day. Posters consistently name Detwah Lagoon, Delisha beach and the Dixsam plateau's dragon blood trees as highlights well-suited to a February visit, before the punishing summer monsoon season sets in.
Socotra's forum is blunt about August: this sits in the peak of the khareef monsoon winds that run roughly June through August, and multiple experienced posters actively discouraged visiting until the season breaks around mid-September. The combination of extreme heat and relentless wind was the recurring complaint, rather than rain - this isn't a wet monsoon in the tropical sense, it's a hot, dry, and very windy one. September onward through the following spring gets recommended instead for calmer, more comfortable conditions to explore the island's famous landscapes.
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