Sinkat (Arabic: سنكات, romanized: Sinkāt, Beja Ookwaakw) is a small town in eastern Sudan.
Sinkat
سنكات | |
|---|---|
Town | |
  Sinkat Location of Sinkat in Sudan | |
| Coordinates: 18°50′19″N 36°50′10″E / 18.83861°N 36.83611°E | |
| Country |  Sudan |
| State | Red Sea |
| Time zone | UTC 2 (CAT) |
It is the main city of the district of the same name and, in some respects, the "capital" of the Hadendowa.
Transport
editIt is served by a station on the mainline of the Sudan railway network.
Climate
editSinkat has a very warm desert climate (Köppen BWh) with very hot summers and pleasantly warm winters. Rainfall is minimal except for July - August, when easterly winds bring 62 millimetres of rain. Sinkat has some, though very sparse, erratic, and negligible rain in nearly every month of the year. This town lies some 900 metres above sea level and thus is on average 5 degrees colder than nearby port town of Suakin.
| Climate data for Sinkat | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 23.7 (74.7) |
24.6 (76.3) |
27.8 (82.0) |
31.3 (88.3) |
35.6 (96.1) |
37.9 (100.2) |
36.3 (97.3) |
35.8 (96.4) |
36.5 (97.7) |
31.9 (89.4) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.9 (76.8) |
31 (88) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 13.7 (56.7) |
13.2 (55.8) |
14.2 (57.6) |
17.1 (62.8) |
20.1 (68.2) |
22.4 (72.3) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.5 (74.3) |
22.1 (71.8) |
18.9 (66.0) |
18.4 (65.1) |
15.7 (60.3) |
18.6 (65.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5 (0.2) |
1 (0.0) |
0 (0) |
3 (0.1) |
8 (0.3) |
3 (0.1) |
25 (1.0) |
37 (1.5) |
9 (0.4) |
8 (0.3) |
6 (0.2) |
4 (0.2) |
109 (4.3) |
| Source: Climate-Data.ORG[1] | |||||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Sinkat, Sudan". Retrieved July 26, 2017.
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