Souk Ahras climate

Name: Souk Ahras
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Souk Ahras is warmest in August, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 2.8 °C. March is the wettest month (70 mm) and July the driest (11 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Souk Ahras averages 601 mm of rain, 135 days above 25 °C and 10 days below freezing.

Algeria · population 153,479 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month January 2.8 °C
Driest month July 11 mm
Wettest month March 70 mm
Least cloud July 16 % cloud
Hottest on record July 43 °C
Coldest on record February -11 °C

What to expectSouk Ahras through the year

Souk Ahras has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 12 °C in January to 33 °C in August, a swing of 19 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 135 days a year reach 25 °C, 79 of them reach 30 °C, 10 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 70 mm against 11 mm in July — 6.6 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	12.0 °C	64 mm	57 %
February	12.7 °C	57 mm	55 %
March	15.9 °C	70 mm	54 %
April	19.1 °C	68 mm	52 %
May	23.9 °C	60 mm	46 %
June	29.1 °C	27 mm	31 %
July	33.2 °C	11 mm	16 %
August	33.3 °C	25 mm	23 %
September	28.0 °C	47 mm	44 %
October	23.4 °C	55 mm	51 %
November	17.0 °C	59 mm	54 %
December	13.0 °C	57 mm	56 %

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	12.0 °C	2.8 °C	7.0 °C	22.4 °C	-7.5 °C	0	0	4
February	12.7 °C	2.9 °C	7.4 °C	26.4 °C	-10.9 °C	0	0	4
March	15.9 °C	5.0 °C	10.1 °C	30.2 °C	-2.5 °C	1	0	1
April	19.1 °C	7.5 °C	13.1 °C	31.8 °C	-0.2 °C	3	0	0
May	23.9 °C	11.2 °C	17.4 °C	39.1 °C	3.8 °C	13	4	0
June	29.1 °C	15.5 °C	22.1 °C	41.4 °C	7.4 °C	24	12	0
July	33.2 °C	18.6 °C	25.7 °C	43.0 °C	10.7 °C	30	25	0
August	33.3 °C	19.2 °C	25.9 °C	42.6 °C	12.7 °C	30	25	0
September	28.0 °C	16.2 °C	21.5 °C	40.0 °C	8.4 °C	22	10	0
October	23.4 °C	12.3 °C	17.4 °C	35.8 °C	5.1 °C	11	3	0
November	17.0 °C	7.5 °C	11.9 °C	28.0 °C	-0.7 °C	1	0	0
December	13.0 °C	4.2 °C	8.2 °C	24.1 °C	-2.7 °C	0	0	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	64 mm	10	10.0 h/day	57 %	79 %	14 km/h
February	57 mm	10	11 h/day	55 %	78 %	16 km/h
March	70 mm	11	12 h/day	54 %	75 %	15 km/h
April	68 mm	11	13 h/day	52 %	73 %	15 km/h
May	60 mm	9	14 h/day	46 %	67 %	14 km/h
June	27 mm	5	15 h/day	31 %	58 %	14 km/h
July	11 mm	3	14 h/day	16 %	50 %	14 km/h
August	25 mm	6	14 h/day	23 %	52 %	14 km/h
September	47 mm	9	12 h/day	44 %	65 %	13 km/h
October	55 mm	8	11 h/day	51 %	70 %	13 km/h
November	59 mm	8	10 h/day	54 %	74 %	14 km/h
December	57 mm	9	9.7 h/day	56 %	79 %	14 km/h

How Souk Ahras 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
Souk Ahras	33 °C	2.8 °C	601 mm	135
Annaba · Algeria	33 °C	6.8 °C	588 mm	151
Tébessa · Algeria	35 °C	1.8 °C	369 mm	147
Skikda · Algeria	30 °C	8.6 °C	653 mm	123
Constantine · Algeria	34 °C	2.3 °C	451 mm	139

Where Souk Ahras ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Africa in March	8thof 50	16 °C
The coolest places in Africa in April	11thof 50	19 °C
The coolest places in Africa in February	11thof 50	13 °C
The coolest places in Africa in November	11thof 50	17 °C
The coolest places in Africa in December	12thof 50	13 °C
The coolest places in Africa in January	12thof 50	12 °C

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Souk Ahras.

QuestionsCommon questions about Souk Ahras’s climate

When is the best time to visit Souk Ahras?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. May, June, September 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 Souk Ahras get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 79 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 43 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 2.8 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 10 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Souk Ahras?

March, averaging 70 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is July with 11 mm. The year as a whole averages 601 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 Souk Ahras 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
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.