Climate and average weather in Ksar el Boukhari

In Ksar el Boukhari, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: late March to mid June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ksar el Boukhari typically varies from 3°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -0°C or above 39°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 Ksar el Boukhari for warm-weather activities are from late March to mid June and mid September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Apr
44 mm
Driest
Jul
5 mm
Rain / yr
349 mm
70 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
621 m
35.9°N
Clearest
Jul
20% cloud

Ksar el Boukhari 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 late March to mid June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.1 months, from June 11 to September 13, with daily high temperatures above 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Ksar el Boukhari is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.9 months, from November 15 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Ksar el Boukhari is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 12°C.

Days typically run about 11°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)
Jan123
Feb134
Mar176
Apr208
May2513
Jun3117
Jul3521
Aug3421
Sep2917
Oct2412
Nov177
Dec134

How hot and cold Ksar el Boukhari 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, Ksar el Boukhari feels like about 36°C (around July 23). About 74 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)
Jan121213
Feb131314
Mar171746
Apr202078
May25251313
Jun31311717
Jul35352121
Aug34342121
Sep29291717
Oct23241212
Nov171767
Dec131324

Average hourly temperature in Ksar el Boukhari

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

Ksar el Boukhari weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan12° / 397.70.59.83.4
Feb13° / 357.70.710.64.0
Mar17° / 4280.311.75.8
Apr20° / 448.2012.96.7
May25° / 13°356.1013.97.6
Jun31° / 17°122.8014.45.7
Jul35° / 21°51.7014.23.2
Aug34° / 21°103.4013.43.5
Sep29° / 17°265.2012.26.3
Oct24° / 12°315.6011.17.7
Nov17° / 357.2010.15.7
Dec13° / 356.70.39.63.9

Chance of rain

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

Ksar el Boukhari gets about 349 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 6.5 months, from around Oct 26 to May 11, peaking in February at about 30% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 24.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 44 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 5 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 28 · 30%Jul 24 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan258
Feb288
Mar268
Apr278
May196
Jun103
Jul62
Aug103
Sep175
Oct196
Nov237
Dec227

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ksar el Boukhari collects about 349 mm of rain across 70 wet days — roughly 29 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 44 mm, while July is the driest at just 5 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec39354244351251026313535
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3981
Feb3581
Mar4280
Apr4480
May3560
Jun1230
Jul520
Aug1030
Sep2650
Oct3160
Nov3570
Dec3570

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ksar el Boukhari, 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 29 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 6. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 7 and lasts for 7.7 months, ending around May 28. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 46% 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%Jan 23 · 51%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5446
Feb5743
Mar6040
Apr6238
May6436
Jun8119
Jul928
Aug8911
Sep7327
Oct6337
Nov5644
Dec5446

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 8, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan9.88:045:53
Feb10.67:446:23
Mar11.77:076:50
Apr12.96:227:17
May13.95:487:42
Jun14.45:378:02
Jul14.25:488:01
Aug13.46:127:34
Sep12.26:376:50
Oct11.17:026:06
Nov10.17:325:36
Dec9.67:585:32

Sunny days

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

Ksar el Boukhari averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around May 23 to Sep 18. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is November, down near 11 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2725 daysNov 3010 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun21Bright
Jul25Brilliant
Aug23Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov11Mixed
Dec11Mixed

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 Ksar el Boukhari, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around June 17 to October 1. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 19% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 2 to June 16, and April 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 14 · 100%Aug 18 · 79%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May901000
Jun722540
Jul563591
Aug4438172
Sep5632111
Oct821610
Nov99100
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.

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 4 · 9 km/hAug 16 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Ksar el Boukhari

In seasonPeak

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

Ksar el Boukhari sees seasonal dust haze (June–July), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Ksar el Boukhari

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Ksar el Boukhari 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 Ksar el Boukhari for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to mid June and again from mid September to mid November, with a peak score in the second week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 10 · 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
Jan3.4poor
Feb4.0fair
Mar5.7good
Apr6.8good
May7.6ideal
Jun5.7good
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep6.3good
Oct7.6ideal
Nov5.7good
Dec4.0fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Ksar el Boukhari for hot-weather activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 11 · 8.3

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 Ksar el Boukhari, 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 12°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

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

UV index (midday) in Ksar el Boukhari 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 Ksar el Boukhari peaks around July 14 at about 10 (extreme) — 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highVery highModerateJul 14UV 10Dec 19UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr9Very high
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Ksar el Boukhari

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 6 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
Feb40
Mar62
Apr7.54.5
May84.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug7.55
Sep74
Oct50
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Ksar el Boukhari 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 Ksar el Boukhari is worst in July — around 41 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJul 2041 µg/m³Nov 1929 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan31Moderate
Feb31Moderate
Mar34Moderate
Apr33Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun32Moderate
Jul41Poor
Aug37Poor
Sep38Poor
Oct34Moderate
Nov29Moderate
Dec31Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Ksar el Boukhari is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 18 to December 31 (317 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 1890%Dec 3190%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8831
Feb9019
Mar970
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec953

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. Ksar el Boukhari banks about 2,657 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar40
Apr126
May272
Jun422
Jul557
Aug544
Sep389
Oct247
Nov61
Dec0

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.

Ksar el Boukhari receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.3 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 23. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.4 kWh/m² — roughly 68% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 277.7 kWhDec 172.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.7Moderate
Feb3.7Moderate
Mar4.9Bright
Apr6.0Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.8Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov2.9Moderate
Dec2.4Moderate

Where is Ksar el Boukhari?

Ksar el Boukhari sits at 35.9°N, 2.7°E, 621 m above sea level, in Algeria. The nearest listed city is Berrouaghia, 31 km away.

Topography around Ksar el Boukhari

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Ksar el Boukhari.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ksar el Boukhari has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 317 m around an average of 671 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 920 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,787 m.

The land around Ksar el Boukhari is covered by bare terrain (35%) and grassland (32%) within 3 km, grassland (39%) and bare terrain (30%) within 16 km, and grassland (34%) and cropland (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
317 m
16 km
920 m
80 km
1,787 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Berrouaghia 31 km · Médéa 42 km · Aïn Oussera 51 km · Birine 51 km · Chellalat el Adhaouara 60 km · Khemis Miliana 63 km · Chiffa 64 km · Boû Arfa 64 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 Ksar el Boukhari (35.8889°, 2.749°, elevation 621 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).