Climate and average weather in Reggane

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

Best: early January to mid March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Reggane typically varies from 8°C to 46°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 48°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 Reggane for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and early November to late December.

Hottest
Jul
46°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Jan
2 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
11 mm
2 wet days
Daylight
10.3–13.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
210 m
26.7°N
Clearest
Jul
8% cloud

Reggane 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 March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 25 to September 23, with daily high temperatures above 40°C. The hottest month of the year in Reggane is July, with an average high of 46°C and low of 31°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from November 21 to February 25, with daily high temperatures below 26°C. The coldest month of the year in Reggane is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 21°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan218
Feb2410
Mar2914
Apr3419
May3824
Jun4328
Jul4631
Aug4430
Sep4127
Oct3521
Nov2714
Dec229

How hot and cold Reggane 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, Reggane feels like about 46°C (around July 8). About 208 days a year carry some heat stress, and 130 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan212158
Feb2424910
Mar29291414
Apr34341919
May38382424
Jun43432828
Jul45463131
Aug44443030
Sep41412727
Oct35352121
Nov27271414
Dec222279

Average hourly temperature in Reggane

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 46°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Reggane 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
Jan21° / 20.210.58.8
Feb24° / 10°10.311.19.2
Mar29° / 14°10.311.87.5
Apr34° / 19°20.212.64.1
May38° / 24°0013.31.1
Jun43° / 28°0013.60.0
Jul46° / 31°0013.50.0
Aug44° / 30°10.212.90.0
Sep41° / 27°10.312.20.2
Oct35° / 21°10.211.43.5
Nov27° / 14°10.210.78.2
Dec22° / 10.210.49.0

Chance of rain

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

Reggane gets about 11 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 2 mm over about 0 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainFeb 11 · 1%May 3 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar10
Apr10
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Reggane collects about 11 mm of rain across 2 wet days — roughly 1 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 2 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total.

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Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20
Feb10
Mar10
Apr20
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep10
Oct10
Nov10
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Reggane, 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 3 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around September 23. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 99% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 18 and lasts for 2.5 months, ending around June 2. The cloudiest month is April, 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 19 · 99%May 17 · 78%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8515
Feb8515
Mar8614
Apr7921
May8020
Jun946
Jul991
Aug973
Sep9010
Oct8218
Nov8020
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 13, brings about 13 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 10 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 3 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.57:546:23
Feb11.17:426:46
Mar11.87:157:03
Apr12.66:417:18
May13.36:167:35
Jun13.66:097:50
Jul13.56:197:51
Aug12.96:357:32
Sep12.26:496:58
Oct11.47:046:25
Nov10.77:256:04
Dec10.47:466:05

Sunny days

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

Reggane averages about 24 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 21 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Jun 5 to Sep 17. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is May, down near 21 sunny days — about 21% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2929 daysMay 1821 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan24Brilliant
Feb21Brilliant
Mar25Brilliant
Apr22Bright
May22Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul30Brilliant
Aug29Brilliant
Sep25Brilliant
Oct22Bright
Nov21Bright
Dec23Bright

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 Reggane, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 2% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9910
May10000
Jun10000
Jul10000
Aug9631
Sep9351
Oct9631
Nov10000
Dec10000

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 Reggane is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.8 months, from around Jun 13 to Sep 4. The windiest month is July, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 5 to Feb 18, with November the calmest month at about 15 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyJul 23 · 19 km/hNov 21 · 14 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May17light breeze
Jun17light breeze
Jul19light breeze
Aug18light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Reggane

In seasonPeak

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

Reggane sees seasonal dust haze (February–October), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Reggane

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early March, Reggane is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Reggane for general outdoor tourist activities is from early November to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 10 · 9.2

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
Jan8.9ideal
Feb9.1ideal
Mar7.5good
Apr4.1fair
May1.2poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.0poor
Sep0.3poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov8.1ideal
Dec9.0ideal

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 Reggane for hot-weather activities run from mid February to late April and again from mid October to early December, with a peak score in the third week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 16 · 9.2

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 Reggane, 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 46°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 21°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Reggane sees daytime highs around 46°C and nights near 31°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Reggane 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 Reggane peaks around September 14 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 5 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecHighVery highHighModerateSep 14UV 10Dec 18UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan6High
Feb6High
Mar9Very high
Apr8Very high
May10Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep10Very high
Oct7High
Nov6High
Dec5Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Reggane

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 September the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 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)
Jan50
Feb62
Mar74
Apr7.54.5
May85
Jun85
Jul85
Aug7.54.5
Sep7.55
Oct63
Nov5.50
Dec40

Air quality in Reggane 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 Reggane is worst in July — around 79 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 1.9× the cleanest month (November, 42 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorJul 1978 µg/m³Nov 1744 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan49Poor
Feb74Unhealthy
Mar67Unhealthy
Apr73Unhealthy
May71Unhealthy
Jun69Unhealthy
Jul79Unhealthy
Aug74Unhealthy
Sep65Unhealthy
Oct62Unhealthy
Nov42Poor
Dec58Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Reggane 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
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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. Reggane banks about 6,095 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan141
Feb205
Mar359
Apr486
May651
Jun765
Jul874
Aug849
Sep721
Oct554
Nov313
Dec177

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.

Reggane receives about 6.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 8.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Mar 12 to Sep 24. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 4.2 kWh/m² — roughly 47% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 218.0 kWhDec 194.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.5Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar6.4Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.7Intense
Jun8.0Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.3Intense
Sep6.6Intense
Oct5.6Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec4.2Bright

Where is Reggane?

Reggane sits at 26.7°N, 0.2°E, 210 m above sea level, in Algeria. The nearest listed city is Aoulef, 95 km away.

AdrarIn SalahTimimounEl MeniaBécharMerzougaMoulay Ali Cherif

Topography around Reggane

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Reggane has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m around an average of 205 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 144 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 274 m.

The land around Reggane is covered by bare terrain (89%) within 3 km, bare terrain (99%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (100%) within 80 km.

3 km
66 m
16 km
144 m
80 km
274 m
treesartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Aoulef 95 km · Adrar 137 km · In Salah 235 km · Timimoun 283 km · El Menia 504 km · Béchar 592 km · Merzouga 635 km · Moulay Ali Cherif 666 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 Reggane (26.7158°, 0.1714°, elevation 210 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).