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Tocra climate by month
What the weather is like
Tocra has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 31° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 11°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 13°.
About 419 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (102 mm, 11 wet days) and July the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in July to 29% in January.
The sea reaches about 27° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Tripoli, the capital, Tocra is 0.6° warmer on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · August
- Coldest nights
- 11° · February
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 4% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 17 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 02 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 17° | 17° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 28° | 23° | 19° |
| Average low | 11° | 11° | 12° | 14° | 17° | 20° | 22° | 23° | 22° | 19° | 16° | 13° |
| Precipitation | 102 mm | 71 mm | 42 mm | 8 mm | 4 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 6 mm | 22 mm | 66 mm | 96 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 11.3 | 4.8 | 3 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.2 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 10.5 |
| Cloud cover | 29% | 25% | 23% | 20% | 19% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 6% | 16% | 24% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 18° | 17° | 17° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 20° |
| Daylight | 10h 14 | 11h 02 | 11h 57 | 12h 58 | 13h 49 | 14h 17 | 14h 06 | 13h 22 | 12h 24 | 11h 25 | 10h 30 | 10h 02 |
| Month score | 68 | 85 | 93 | 98 | 88 | 81 | 78 | 74 | 72 | 83 | 88 | 75 |