Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Sétif
Sétif climate by month
Hot-summer Mediterranean · CsaBest Apr–May · Oct
Annual mean15°day and night
Seasonal swing21°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation515 mm90 wet days a year
36.19° N, 5.41° EElevation 1,096 mUTC+1 · Central European Standard Time
When to goSétif · weather score
Best timeApr–May · Oct
October: high / low22° / 10°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Sétif has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 34° and nights 18°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 10° and lows of 0°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 21°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 515 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (52 mm, 12 wet days) and July the driest (11 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 10% in July to 40% in December.
Compared with Algiers, the capital, Sétif is 3.3° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 34° · July
- Coldest nights
- 0° · January
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 10% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 36 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 43 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 10° | 11° | 15° | 18° | 24° | 30° | 34° | 33° | 27° | 22° | 15° | 11° |
| Average low | 0° | 0° | 3° | 6° | 10° | 15° | 18° | 18° | 14° | 10° | 4° | 2° |
| Precipitation | 62 mm | 48 mm | 48 mm | 53 mm | 49 mm | 24 mm | 11 mm | 2 mm | 47 mm | 48 mm | 52 mm | 71 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11 | 6.3 | 10 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 4 | 8.3 | 6.5 | 11.5 | 10.7 |
| Cloud cover | 39% | 34% | 33% | 32% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 13% | 25% | 32% | 36% | 40% |
| Daylight | 9h 58 | 10h 52 | 11h 55 | 13h 06 | 14h 05 | 14h 36 | 14h 24 | 13h 33 | 12h 26 | 11h 18 | 10h 16 | 9h 43 |
| Month score | 29 | 47 | 57 | 79 | 80 | 72 | 58 | 56 | 73 | 84 | 54 | 34 |
ivMonth by month
Sétif in every month
January29
10° / 0°
62 mm · 11 wet days
February47
11° / 0°
48 mm · 6.3 wet days
March57
15° / 3°
48 mm · 10 wet days
April79
18° / 6°
53 mm · 8.3 wet days
May80
24° / 10°
49 mm · 8.5 wet days
June72
30° / 15°
24 mm · 3.2 wet days
July58
34° / 18°
11 mm · 1.5 wet days
August56
33° / 18°
2 mm · 4 wet days
September73
27° / 14°
47 mm · 8.3 wet days
October84
22° / 10°
48 mm · 6.5 wet days
November54
15° / 4°
52 mm · 11.5 wet days
December34
11° / 2°
71 mm · 10.7 wet days