Layayda climate by month
What the weather is like
Layayda 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 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 18° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 509 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (96 mm, 11 wet days) and August the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in July to 31% in December.
The sea reaches about 23° 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, Layayda is 0.7° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- 8° · January
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- July · 12% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 23° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 25 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 54 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 | 18° | 18° | 20° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 19° |
| Average low | 8° | 8° | 10° | 12° | 14° | 17° | 18° | 19° | 17° | 15° | 11° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 77 mm | 65 mm | 49 mm | 43 mm | 21 mm | 5 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm | 14 mm | 46 mm | 90 mm | 96 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.7 | 6.5 | 9.8 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2 | 5 | 5.8 | 10.5 |
| Cloud cover | 29% | 29% | 28% | 26% | 23% | 17% | 12% | 13% | 20% | 26% | 29% | 31% |
| Sea temperature | 17° | 17° | 17° | 18° | 19° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 22° | 21° | 20° | 18° |
| Daylight | 10h 08 | 10h 58 | 11h 56 | 13h 01 | 13h 55 | 14h 25 | 14h 13 | 13h 27 | 12h 25 | 11h 22 | 10h 24 | 9h 54 |
| Month score | 82 | 85 | 77 | 88 | 91 | 96 | 89 | 88 | 88 | 88 | 86 | 75 |