Climate and average weather in Tolga

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

Best: late January to late April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tolga typically varies from 7°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 3°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 Tolga for warm-weather activities are from late January to late April and mid October to late December.

Hottest
Jul
41°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
18 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
123 mm
23 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
161 m
34.7°N
Clearest
Jul
12% cloud

Tolga 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 January to late April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.5 months, from May 31 to September 14, with daily high temperatures above 35°C. The hottest month of the year in Tolga is July, with an average high of 41°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 17 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Tolga is January, with an average low of 7°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°50°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan177
Feb198
Mar2311
Apr2715
May3220
Jun3825
Jul4128
Aug4028
Sep3523
Oct2918
Nov2212
Dec188

How hot and cold Tolga 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, Tolga feels like about 41°C (around July 25). About 137 days a year carry some heat stress, and 64 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)
Jan171747
Feb191968
Mar23231111
Apr27271515
May32322020
Jun38382525
Jul41412828
Aug40402728
Sep35352323
Oct29291818
Nov22221112
Dec181868

Average hourly temperature in Tolga

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Tolga 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
Jan17° / 142.49.96.8
Feb19° / 82.110.77.7
Mar23° / 11°142.411.78.5
Apr27° / 15°172.712.87.9
May32° / 20°8213.84.9
Jun38° / 25°30.614.31.5
Jul41° / 28°10.214.10.0
Aug40° / 28°40.913.30.3
Sep35° / 23°182.712.23.3
Oct29° / 18°142.411.17.0
Nov22° / 12°132.210.28.3
Dec18° / 102.49.77.2

Chance of rain

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

Tolga gets about 123 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.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 18 mm over about 3 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmostly drysome rainSep 27 · 10%Jul 16 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan82
Feb72
Mar82
Apr93
May62
Jun21
Jul10
Aug31
Sep83
Oct82
Nov72
Dec82

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tolga collects about 123 mm of rain across 23 wet days — roughly 10 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 18 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1481417831418141310
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan142
Feb82
Mar142
Apr173
May82
Jun31
Jul10
Aug41
Sep183
Oct142
Nov132
Dec102

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tolga, 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 8 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around September 10. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 11 and lasts for 8.9 months, ending around June 7. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 24% 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 25 · 99%Apr 12 · 75%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb7921
Mar7822
Apr7624
May7822
Jun8713
Jul973
Aug946
Sep8020
Oct7624
Nov7624
Dec7822

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 9, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.97:505:45
Feb10.77:326:14
Mar11.76:566:40
Apr12.86:137:05
May13.85:407:29
Jun14.35:297:48
Jul14.15:417:48
Aug13.36:037:22
Sep12.26:266:39
Oct11.16:505:57
Nov10.27:195:28
Dec9.77:445:25

Sunny days

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

Tolga averages about 21 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 18 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.1 months, from around Jun 7 to Sep 7. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is October, down near 19 sunny days — about 33% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2529 daysOct 1518 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr19Bright
May20Bright
Jun23Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep20Bright
Oct19Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec20Bright

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 Tolga, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.1 months, from around July 26 to October 26. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 22% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to July 25, 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 22 · 100%Sep 5 · 76%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr98200
May94510
Jun881110
Jul682930
Aug4838132
Sep4632184
Oct692181
Nov95400
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 Tolga is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Jan 18 to Jun 23. The windiest month is April, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 24 to Jan 17, with August the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeApr 24 · 15 km/hAug 27 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Tolga

In seasonPeak

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

Tolga sees seasonal dust haze (April–September), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Tolga

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early February, Tolga 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 Tolga for general outdoor tourist activities run from late January to late April and again from mid October to late December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 22 · 8.7

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
Jan6.8good
Feb7.7ideal
Mar8.5ideal
Apr7.9ideal
May4.9fair
Jun1.6poor
Jul0.0poor
Aug0.3poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct7.0good
Nov8.2ideal
Dec7.2good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 15 · 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 Tolga, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 17°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Tolga sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Tolga 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 Tolga peaks around June 18 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 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 highHighModerateJun 18UV 9Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar7High
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Tolga

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 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)
Jan00
Feb40
Mar62
Apr60.5
May7.54
Jun85
Jul85
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Tolga 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 Tolga is worst in June — around 48 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.1× the cleanest month (December, 23 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJun 1647 µg/m³Dec 1123 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb25Moderate
Mar33Moderate
Apr40Poor
May42Poor
Jun48Poor
Jul41Poor
Aug38Poor
Sep37Poor
Oct29Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tolga 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
Jan990
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. Tolga banks about 4,583 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan54
Feb95
Mar217
Apr326
May501
Jun643
Jul757
Aug735
Sep567
Oct408
Nov200
Dec81

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.

Tolga receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 7.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 63% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 267.9 kWhDec 172.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.3Moderate
Feb4.3Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr6.8Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.8Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep5.8Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Tolga?

Tolga sits at 34.7°N, 5.4°E, 161 m above sea level, in Algeria. The nearest listed city is Biskra, 35 km away.

Topography around Tolga

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tolga has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 73 m around an average of 152 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 631 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,942 m.

The land around Tolga is covered by trees (63%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 3 km, bare terrain (69%) and trees (20%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (78%) within 80 km.

3 km
73 m
16 km
631 m
80 km
1,942 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Biskra 35 km · Ouled Djellal 44 km · Sidi Okba 48 km · Sidi Khaled 52 km · Barika 74 km · Aïn Touta 87 km · N’Gaous 95 km · El Meghaïer 99 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 Tolga (34.7222°, 5.3784°, elevation 161 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).