Climate and average weather in El Hadjira

In El Hadjira, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and clear.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in El Hadjira typically varies from 6°C to 42°C, and is rarely below 2°C or above 46°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 El Hadjira for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid April and late October to late December.

Hottest
Jul
42°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
9 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
43 mm
9 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
130 m
32.6°N
Clearest
Jul
6% cloud

El Hadjira 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 January to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.7 months, from May 30 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in El Hadjira is July, with an average high of 42°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 19 to March 2, with daily high temperatures below 22°C. The coldest month of the year in El Hadjira is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 18°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan186
Feb208
Mar2411
Apr2816
May3421
Jun3926
Jul4228
Aug4128
Sep3624
Oct3018
Nov2311
Dec187

How hot and cold El Hadjira 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, El Hadjira feels like about 42°C (around July 9). About 153 days a year carry some heat stress, and 76 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan171836
Feb202058
Mar24241111
Apr28281616
May34342121
Jun39392626
Jul42422828
Aug41412828
Sep36362424
Oct30301818
Nov23231111
Dec181857

Average hourly temperature in El Hadjira

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 42°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

El Hadjira 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
Jan18° / 91.410.17.4
Feb20° / 30.910.88.3
Mar24° / 11°61.211.88.9
Apr28° / 16°50.912.87.6
May34° / 21°20.513.74.2
Jun39° / 26°00.114.11.0
Jul42° / 28°0013.90.0
Aug41° / 28°10.213.20.1
Sep36° / 24°30.812.22.5
Oct30° / 18°40.711.26.5
Nov23° / 11°41.110.38.7
Dec18° / 61.39.97.8

Chance of rain

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

El Hadjira gets about 43 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, and that barely changes with the seasons — rain is spread fairly evenly through the year.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 9 mm over about 1 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainJan 18 · 5%Jun 27 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan51
Feb31
Mar41
Apr31
May21
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep21
Oct21
Nov31
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, El Hadjira collects about 43 mm of rain across 9 wet days — roughly 4 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 9 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec936520013446
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan91
Feb31
Mar61
Apr51
May21
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep31
Oct41
Nov41
Dec61

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In El Hadjira, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 5 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around September 17. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 98% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 18 and lasts for 8.5 months, ending around June 4. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 21% 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 24 · 99%Oct 21 · 78%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8317
Feb8416
Mar8317
Apr8218
May8119
Jun928
Jul982
Aug973
Sep8713
Oct7921
Nov8119
Dec8218

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 7, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.17:455:49
Feb10.87:286:17
Mar11.86:556:40
Apr12.86:147:02
May13.75:447:24
Jun14.15:347:42
Jul13.95:457:42
Aug13.26:067:18
Sep12.26:266:38
Oct11.26:485:58
Nov10.37:145:32
Dec9.97:385:30

Sunny days

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

El Hadjira averages about 23 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 20 and 30 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Jun 4 to Sep 15. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is October, down near 20 sunny days — about 31% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2430 daysOct 1920 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan22Bright
Feb21Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr21Bright
May22Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep23Brilliant
Oct21Bright
Nov21Bright
Dec22Bright

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 El Hadjira, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around July 28 to October 25. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 15% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 26 to July 27, 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 18 · 100%Sep 8 · 84%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr98200
May96400
Jun92800
Jul831420
Aug682481
Sep5927122
Oct791650
Nov96300
Dec100000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in El Hadjira is typically light breeze, near 15 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Feb 15 to Jul 15. The windiest month is May, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 16 to Feb 14, with November the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeMay 10 · 17 km/hNov 1 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan14light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar16light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May17light breeze
Jun16light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep14light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec13light breeze

Hazard calendar for El Hadjira

In seasonPeak

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

El Hadjira sees seasonal dust haze (March–October), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit El Hadjira

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid January, El Hadjira 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 time of year to visit El Hadjira for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to mid April, with a peak score in the third week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 18 · 9.1

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
Jan7.5good
Feb8.3ideal
Mar8.9ideal
Apr7.5ideal
May4.2fair
Jun1.1poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.1poor
Sep2.6poor
Oct6.5good
Nov8.7ideal
Dec7.8ideal

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 El Hadjira for hot-weather activities run from mid March to late May and again from late September to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 20 · 8.9

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 El Hadjira, 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 42°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 18°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, El Hadjira sees daytime highs around 42°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in El Hadjira 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 El Hadjira peaks around June 20 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highVery highHighModerateJun 20UV 10Dec 19UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5High
Mar7High
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in El Hadjira

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 June 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)
Jan30
Feb50
Mar62.5
Apr61
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct5.51
Nov40
Dec0.50

Air quality in El Hadjira 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 El Hadjira is worst in April — around 102 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.5× the cleanest month (December, 40 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorUnhealthyPoorApr 19100 µg/m³Dec 1240 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan46Poor
Feb58Unhealthy
Mar80Unhealthy
Apr102Unhealthy
May92Unhealthy
Jun89Unhealthy
Jul60Unhealthy
Aug59Unhealthy
Sep61Unhealthy
Oct49Poor
Nov42Poor
Dec40Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

El Hadjira 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
Jan980
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec990

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. El Hadjira banks about 4,825 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan56
Feb108
Mar238
Apr364
May533
Jun663
Jul775
Aug756
Sep600
Oct434
Nov213
Dec87

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.

El Hadjira receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.3 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 14 to Sep 22. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.3 kWh/m² — roughly 58% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 228.0 kWhDec 183.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.6Moderate
Feb4.7Bright
Mar6.0Bright
Apr7.2Intense
May7.6Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.2Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct4.9Bright
Nov3.8Moderate
Dec3.3Moderate

Where is El Hadjira?

El Hadjira sits at 32.6°N, 5.5°E, 130 m above sea level, in Algeria. The nearest listed city is Ouargla, 76 km away.

Topography around El Hadjira

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of El Hadjira.

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Hadjira has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 49 m around an average of 116 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 104 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 286 m.

The land around El Hadjira is covered by bare terrain (91%) within 3 km, bare terrain (99%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (99%) within 80 km.

3 km
49 m
16 km
104 m
80 km
286 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ouargla 76 km · Touggourt 76 km · Tebesbest 77 km · Rouissat 78 km · Megarine 84 km · Guerara 97 km · Taïbet 97 km · Sidi Amrane 109 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 El Hadjira (32.6134°, 5.5126°, elevation 130 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. 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).