Larache climate by month
What the weather is like
Larache has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa): dry, sunny summers and mild, wetter winters.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 28° and nights 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 663 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. March is the wettest month (63 mm, 13 wet days) and July the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 9% in July to 34% in December.
The sea reaches about 22° 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 Rabat, the capital, Larache is 0.4° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- March
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 9% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 22° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 31 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 48 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° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 24° | 20° | 18° |
| Average low | 9° | 10° | 11° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 20° | 20° | 19° | 16° | 13° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 95 mm | 80 mm | 63 mm | 64 mm | 34 mm | 7 mm | 2 mm | 3 mm | 20 mm | 63 mm | 110 mm | 122 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.3 | 6.7 | 13 | 7.7 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 7.3 | 8.3 | 11.8 |
| Cloud cover | 30% | 30% | 28% | 27% | 23% | 15% | 9% | 11% | 19% | 27% | 31% | 34% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 16° | 16° | 17° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 21° | 19° | 18° |
| Daylight | 10h 02 | 10h 55 | 11h 56 | 13h 04 | 14h 00 | 14h 31 | 14h 19 | 13h 30 | 12h 26 | 11h 20 | 10h 20 | 9h 48 |
| Month score | 74 | 82 | 69 | 82 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 86 | 86 | 83 | 80 | 71 |