Sidi Bel Abbes climate

Name: Sidi Bel Abbes
Address: DZ

Sidi Bel Abbes is warmest in August, with average highs of 35 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 4.7 °C. November is the wettest month (56 mm) and July the driest (1.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Sidi Bel Abbes averages 392 mm of rain, 157 days above 25 °C and 4 days below freezing.

Algeria · 492 m elevation · population 210,146 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month August 35 °C
Coldest month January 4.7 °C
Driest month July 1 mm
Wettest month November 56 mm
Least cloud July 20 % cloud
Hottest on record July 45 °C
Coldest on record January -3.9 °C

What to expectSidi Bel Abbes through the year

Sidi Bel Abbes has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 15 °C in January to 35 °C in August, a swing of 18 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 157 days a year reach 25 °C, 93 of them reach 30 °C, 4 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 56 mm against 1 mm in July — 49 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	14.8 °C	53 mm	46 %
February	15.8 °C	47 mm	43 %
March	18.6 °C	50 mm	46 %
April	21.1 °C	46 mm	44 %
May	25.1 °C	30 mm	42 %
June	30.0 °C	9 mm	27 %
July	34.4 °C	1 mm	20 %
August	34.5 °C	5 mm	23 %
September	29.4 °C	18 mm	38 %
October	24.9 °C	32 mm	43 %
November	18.7 °C	56 mm	47 %
December	15.7 °C	44 mm	46 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	14.8 °C	4.7 °C	9.2 °C	23.4 °C	-3.9 °C	0	0	2
February	15.8 °C	5.2 °C	10.1 °C	28.9 °C	-3.1 °C	0	0	1
March	18.6 °C	7.4 °C	12.6 °C	32.8 °C	-2.4 °C	2	0	0
April	21.1 °C	9.4 °C	14.9 °C	32.2 °C	1.8 °C	6	1	0
May	25.1 °C	12.7 °C	18.7 °C	40.9 °C	5.0 °C	17	5	0
June	30.0 °C	16.6 °C	23.1 °C	42.2 °C	9.3 °C	26	15	0
July	34.4 °C	20.0 °C	26.9 °C	45.0 °C	12.0 °C	31	28	0
August	34.5 °C	20.5 °C	27.2 °C	43.8 °C	13.0 °C	31	29	0
September	29.4 °C	17.2 °C	22.8 °C	40.7 °C	9.5 °C	26	14	0
October	24.9 °C	13.4 °C	18.6 °C	37.3 °C	4.3 °C	16	3	0
November	18.7 °C	8.9 °C	13.3 °C	29.8 °C	0.0 °C	2	0	0
December	15.7 °C	6.1 °C	10.3 °C	26.3 °C	-1.4 °C	0	0	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	53 mm	8	10 h/day	46 %	73 %	15 km/h
February	47 mm	7	11 h/day	43 %	72 %	16 km/h
March	50 mm	7	12 h/day	46 %	69 %	16 km/h
April	46 mm	7	13 h/day	44 %	66 %	16 km/h
May	30 mm	5	14 h/day	42 %	62 %	15 km/h
June	9 mm	2	15 h/day	27 %	55 %	15 km/h
July	1 mm	0	14 h/day	20 %	49 %	14 km/h
August	5 mm	1	13 h/day	23 %	52 %	14 km/h
September	18 mm	4	12 h/day	38 %	61 %	14 km/h
October	32 mm	5	11 h/day	43 %	66 %	14 km/h
November	56 mm	8	10 h/day	47 %	70 %	15 km/h
December	44 mm	7	9.8 h/day	46 %	73 %	14 km/h

How Sidi Bel Abbes compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Sidi Bel Abbes	35 °C	4.7 °C	392 mm	157
Oran · Algeria	31 °C	8.3 °C	340 mm	131
Tlemcen · Algeria	32 °C	3.1 °C	455 mm	132
Mostaganem · Algeria	32 °C	7.5 °C	402 mm	144
Oujda · Morocco	34 °C	3.6 °C	359 mm	154

Where Sidi Bel Abbes ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Africa in October	14th of 50	94/100
The coolest places in Africa in December	19th of 50	16 °C
The coolest places in Africa in November	21st of 50	19 °C
The coolest places in Africa in January	22nd of 50	15 °C
The coolest places in Africa in February	26th of 50	16 °C
The coolest places in Africa in March	28th of 50	19 °C

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QuestionsCommon questions about Sidi Bel Abbes’s climate

When is the best time to visit Sidi Bel Abbes?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. May, September, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, August is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Sidi Bel Abbes get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 35 °C. About 93 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 45 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 4.7 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 4 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Sidi Bel Abbes?

November, averaging 56 mm over 8 days with rain. The driest month is July with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 392 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Sidi Bel Abbes rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 35.190°, -0.631° , 492 m above sea level (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.