Morocco Climate Guide
- The Atlantic coastline enjoys a pleasant and temperate winters are mild, summers are hot and beautiful. Quite windy all year round and relatively cold water. Beware also of ocean currents.
- The northern part of the country has a Mediterranean climate. If it can get very hot in the coastal cities at the beginning of spring, the climate in the Rif is much cooler. Chefchaouen harsh winter, and sometimes thick fog on the mountain roads even quite late in the spring.
- Towards the center, the climate is pleasant, the winters are particularly harsh and arid summers. The highest peak, Jebel Toubkal, the highest point in North Africa, stands at 4167 m. Thus, it is not uncommon for snowfall exceeding 1 m in some villages of the Atlas. In addition, in this region, the nights are cool.
- Further south, the climate is desert.
Everywhere, temperature differences may be important in the same day. Throughout the Atlantic coast of Morocco, May-August, a thick fog often stagnates in the morning, before leaving the place in the sun to 13h or 14h. This is a weather phenomenon called "white sky".
The average annual sunshine than 8 hours per day in Agadir, Fez, Marrakech and Ouarzazate, and the average temperature exceeds 17 ° C. The Chergui, hot dry wind from the east, sometimes blows from the desert, and pushed the mercury.
Spring is by far the best time to visit the country. The trees are in bloom. In the fall, everything was grilled by the summer sun, better opt for the imperial cities.
For regions south of the High Atlas, prefer the period from October to May, because in summer, the temperature is around 45 ° C.
The Morocco Climate Guide is perfect for planning your holiday. Monthly weather averages give the best indication of what the weather is usually like for every month of the year including figures for temperature, rainfall and sunshine. The Climate Guide shown below is for Rabat.
Map of Morocco
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This North African kingdom borders the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea between Algeria and Western Sahara. From the long-faded elegance of Tangier's Mediterranean "Gateway to Africa" to the desolate expanse of the vast Sahara, Morocco has a diverse landscape.
The snow capped Atlas Mountains dominate, running almost the entire length of the country. To the northwest fertile plains lie facing the Atlantic, to the south, the beginnings of the vast Sahara, where rocky gorges crumble to stony wastelands scattered with small oasis villages. The Atlantic coast is rocky with long stretches of sandy beaches.
Northern Morocco has a subtropical climate with a summer dry season running from May to October. Conditions here are similar to many countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea with extensive cultivation of wheat, barley, olives and citrus fruits. Summers are dry, sunny and hot, while winter temperatures range from comfortable to cold depending on elevation. Rainfall only occurs in the winter months, diminishing to the south and the east.
In the mountains many northern slopes are covered with extensive forests of oak and cedar. Here winter rainfall turns to snow at higher elevations and temperatures in December and January can be very cold. In summer, despite the elevation, mountain areas can be considerably hotter than the coastal plains due to the proximity of the Sahara Desert.
Southern Morocco is famous for its kasbahs, large fortified buildings made from mud-bricks, and is wilder than the north. Here crop cultivation gives way to grazing and eventually to stony mountainous desert dotted with the occasional oasis. There are some spectacular sand dunes in the region to the south of Errachidia, but the true Sahara is not reached before the border with Algeria.
Dust laden winds can blow in from the desert at any time of the year producing hazy conditions particularly in the summer.
Morocco Weather by Month
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