Climate and average weather in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

In Bou Hanifia el Hamamat, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early March to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat typically varies from 5°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 1°C or above 40°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Bou Hanifia el Hamamat for warm-weather activities are from early March to mid June and late September to late November.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Mar
47 mm
Driest
Jul
2 mm
Rain / yr
346 mm
62 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
232 m
35.3°N
Clearest
Jul
17% cloud

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early March to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.0 months, from June 14 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 16 to March 15, with daily high temperatures below 19°C. The coldest month of the year in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is January, with an average low of 5°C and high of 15°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan155
Feb166
Mar198
Apr2210
May2614
Jun3118
Jul3521
Aug3521
Sep3018
Oct2614
Nov199
Dec167

How hot and cold Bou Hanifia el Hamamat really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Bou Hanifia el Hamamat feels like about 36°C (around July 27). About 80 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan151535
Feb161646
Mar191968
Apr2222910
May26261414
Jun31311818
Jul35352121
Aug35352121
Sep30301818
Oct25261414
Nov191989
Dec161657

Average hourly temperature in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan15° / 478.29.95.0
Feb16° / 407.510.75.5
Mar19° / 477.411.76.7
Apr22° / 10°416.912.97.3
May26° / 14°284.613.87.7
Jun31° / 18°81.814.35.6
Jul35° / 21°20.714.13.1
Aug35° / 21°51.513.33.2
Sep30° / 18°153.712.25.7
Oct26° / 14°275.311.17.7
Nov19° / 477.410.16.7
Dec16° / 407.29.75.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat gets about 346 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.0 months, from around Oct 9 to May 9, peaking in January at about 30% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 9.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 47 mm over about 7 wet days; July is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetJan 25 · 30%Jul 9 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb278
Mar247
Apr237
May155
Jun62
Jul21
Aug52
Sep124
Oct185
Nov247
Dec237

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bou Hanifia el Hamamat collects about 346 mm of rain across 62 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 47 mm, while July is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec474047412882515274740
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan478
Feb408
Mar477
Apr417
May285
Jun82
Jul21
Aug52
Sep154
Oct275
Nov477
Dec407

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bou Hanifia el Hamamat, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 27 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 4. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 5 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 26. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 40% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 26 · 95%Nov 27 · 57%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb6238
Mar6139
Apr6337
May6832
Jun8416
Jul946
Aug919
Sep7426
Oct6535
Nov6040
Dec6040

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.98:146:05
Feb10.77:556:35
Mar11.77:187:02
Apr12.96:347:27
May13.86:017:52
Jun14.35:498:11
Jul14.16:018:11
Aug13.36:247:45
Sep12.26:487:01
Oct11.17:126:18
Nov10.17:425:49
Dec9.78:075:45

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around May 25 to Sep 16. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is November, down near 13 sunny days — about 49% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2327 daysNov 3012 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May16Bright
Jun21Bright
Jul27Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep17Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov13Mixed
Dec13Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Bou Hanifia el Hamamat, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around June 6 to October 3. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 47% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 4 to June 5, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 19 · 100%Aug 17 · 50%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr946000
May7620400
Jun50291830
Jul293226121
Aug252829162
Sep36332370
Oct6826600
Nov973000
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 27 · 9 km/hAug 18 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat sees seasonal dust haze (June–August), heaviest in July.

Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid March, Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Bou Hanifia el Hamamat for general outdoor tourist activities run from early March to mid June and again from late September to late November, with a peak score in the second week of May.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 8 · 7.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.0fair
Feb5.5good
Mar6.7good
Apr7.3good
May7.6ideal
Jun5.6good
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep5.7good
Oct7.6ideal
Nov6.7good
Dec5.6good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Bou Hanifia el Hamamat for hot-weather activities run from early May to mid July and again from mid August to late October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 7 · 8.5

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bou Hanifia el Hamamat, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 15°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Bou Hanifia el Hamamat sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 63 km away) is warmest in August at about 25°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 7 to Nov 1 — about 4.9 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan16Cool
Feb15Cool
Mar16Cool
Apr17Cool
May18Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul23Refreshing
Aug25Warm
Sep24Refreshing
Oct21Refreshing
Nov19Cool
Dec17Cool

UV index (midday) in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat peaks around July 17 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highHighModerateJul 17UV 10Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar7Very high
Apr7Very high
May9Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb3.50
Mar6.53
Apr74
May85
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug85
Sep6.53.5
Oct50
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is worst in September — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateSep 1530 µg/m³May 2321 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan21Moderate
Feb26Moderate
Mar30Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul26Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep31Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan960
Feb980
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec980

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bou Hanifia el Hamamat banks about 3,093 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan7
Feb30
Mar108
Apr177
May305
Jun435
Jul565
Aug565
Sep425
Oct301
Nov131
Dec46

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 23. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 66% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 277.7 kWhDec 172.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.9Moderate
Feb3.8Moderate
Mar5.0Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun7.6Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.9Intense
Sep5.5Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov3.0Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Bou Hanifia el Hamamat?

Bou Hanifia el Hamamat sits at 35.3°N, 0.1°W, 232 m above sea level, in Algeria. The nearest listed city is Mascara, 20 km away.

Topography around Bou Hanifia el Hamamat

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bou Hanifia el Hamamat.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bou Hanifia el Hamamat has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 314 m around an average of 295 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 693 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,380 m.

The land around Bou Hanifia el Hamamat is covered by cropland (34%) and grassland (32%) within 3 km, grassland (44%) and cropland (32%) within 16 km, and cropland (47%) and grassland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
314 m
16 km
693 m
80 km
1,380 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Mascara 20 km · Sfizef 20 km · Sig 27 km · Mohammadia 32 km · Tighenif 36 km · ’Aïn el Berd 42 km · Sidi Bel Abbes 55 km · Saïda 57 km

Algeria travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 33% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$6,051
2025
Happiness
5.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
69%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
20.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 468
Religion
Muslim 99%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bou Hanifia el Hamamat (35.3147°, -0.0504°, elevation 232 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).