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Marsa climate by month
What the weather is like
Marsa has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 32° and nights 23°. February is the coolest month, with highs of 16° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 561 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (110 mm, 13 wet days) and July the driest (0 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 2% in July to 28% 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 Valletta, the capital, Marsa is 0.2° warmer on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · July
- Coldest nights
- 10° · February
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 2% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 35 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 45 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 | 16° | 16° | 18° | 21° | 25° | 29° | 32° | 32° | 29° | 25° | 21° | 18° |
| Average low | 11° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 23° | 24° | 22° | 19° | 16° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 94 mm | 58 mm | 36 mm | 19 mm | 8 mm | 4 mm | 0 mm | 4 mm | 56 mm | 69 mm | 103 mm | 110 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 12.7 | 10.9 | 9.1 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 3 | 8.8 | 11.4 | 13.1 | 13.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 24% | 23% | 22% | 19% | 9% | 2% | 3% | 13% | 24% | 28% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 15° | 15° | 16° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 26° | 24° | 21° | 18° |
| Daylight | 9h 59 | 10h 53 | 11h 55 | 13h 05 | 14h 03 | 14h 35 | 14h 22 | 13h 32 | 12h 26 | 11h 19 | 10h 17 | 9h 45 |
| Month score | 61 | 64 | 78 | 85 | 91 | 77 | 67 | 63 | 62 | 72 | 69 | 68 |