Ma'an is a Jordanian city located in the southern part of the country on the western outskirts of the desert plateau extending from the Arabian Peninsula to the Levant desert.
It has a population of about 50 thousand and the area of the city is twenty square kilometers. Ma'an has a desert climate, where the temperature rises in summer to 35°C and drops to 15°C in winter. As for the winter rains, they are irregular, with a maximum of 60 mm. The city is affected in summer by southeast desert winds and winter by westerly winds which causes rain.