Meteo Fujaira in maggio

May is when Dubai stops being a comfortable winter destination. The forum's figure is "mid to high 30s, if not tipping 40 in the day and down to mid 20s during the hours of darkness — and those are shade temps," a distinction worth taking literally in a city with a lot of unshaded pavement. Whether that's fine depends on who you're with: one parent's two-year-old "did struggle at times during the day" on a late-May trip, and her advice was to book a hotel pool with plenty of shade rather than skip the season. The structural point posters make is that Dubai is built for it — indoor spaces of any size are air-conditioned and pools are chilled. Our record has 39°C highs, 24.6 kph average wind and effectively no rain, with sea already at 29.6°C.

Forum posters are direct that the broad May-through-October stretch, September included, isn't the ideal window for Fujairah, generally preferring late October through November when it's still warm enough to sunbathe but humidity has finally eased enough to sit outside comfortably in the evening. Posters recommend a hotel-based, air-conditioning-reliant approach for anyone visiting during the hotter months like September, and note October specifically edges out September as noticeably more pleasant if there's flexibility in travel dates. Posters do flag September/October as a strong window specifically for diving, when conditions in the water improve even before the air temperature does. Posters generally rate September as hot and genuinely challenging for a Fujairah visit outside air-conditioned spaces, with October a clearly better-regarded alternative just a few weeks later.

Forum posters describe March as warmer than February but the sea still on the cool side, with the water generally described as cold from January through April - though posters say kids can still comfortably enjoy the beach through February-March, and overall conditions are good for a family trip. Posters name the wider mid-November-to-end-March window as the best overall stretch for the UAE, with January through March also carrying the highest (if still generally low) chance of rain some years, and none at all in others. For anyone diving specifically, posters point to September-October as the better window overall, with October through May recommended for reef and rock diving.