Sinkat, Sudan

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
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

It is served by a station on the mainline of the Sudan railway network.

Climate

Sinkat 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
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

• Railway stations in Sudan