Climate and average weather in Zeribet el Oued

In Zeribet el Oued, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: early February to early May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Zeribet el Oued typically varies from 6°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 44°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 Zeribet el Oued for warm-weather activities are from early February to early May and mid October to mid December.

Hottest
Jul
40°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Apr
17 mm
Driest
Jul
2 mm
Rain / yr
120 mm
24 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
47 m
34.7°N
Clearest
Jul
12% cloud

Zeribet el Oued 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 February to early May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 30 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 34°C. The hottest month of the year in Zeribet el Oued is July, with an average high of 40°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Zeribet el Oued is January, with an average low of 6°C and high of 16°C.

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

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan166
Feb188
Mar2211
Apr2615
May3220
Jun3725
Jul4028
Aug3928
Sep3423
Oct2818
Nov2111
Dec178

How hot and cold Zeribet el Oued 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, Zeribet el Oued feels like about 40°C (around July 8). About 129 days a year carry some heat stress, and 51 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)
Jan161656
Feb181868
Mar22221111
Apr26261515
May32322020
Jun37372525
Jul40402828
Aug39392828
Sep34342323
Oct28281818
Nov21211111
Dec171768

Average hourly temperature in Zeribet el Oued

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 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Zeribet el Oued 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
Jan16° / 132.49.96.3
Feb18° / 82.110.77.4
Mar22° / 11°162.811.78.3
Apr26° / 15°173.212.88.1
May32° / 20°9213.85.3
Jun37° / 25°3114.32.1
Jul40° / 28°20.214.10.2
Aug39° / 28°5113.30.8
Sep34° / 23°142.512.23.9
Oct28° / 18°132.311.17.4
Nov21° / 11°122.310.28.2
Dec17° / 102.39.76.8

Chance of rain

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

Zeribet el Oued gets about 120 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around Jan 3 to May 14, peaking in April at about 11% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 2.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 17 mm over about 3 wet days; July is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainApr 3 · 11%Jul 2 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan82
Feb72
Mar93
Apr103
May72
Jun31
Jul10
Aug31
Sep83
Oct82
Nov72
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Zeribet el Oued collects about 120 mm of rain across 24 wet days — roughly 10 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 17 mm, while July is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1381617932514131210
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan132
Feb82
Mar163
Apr173
May92
Jun31
Jul20
Aug51
Sep143
Oct132
Nov122
Dec102

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Zeribet el Oued, 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 7 and lasts for 3.2 months, ending around September 12. 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 September 13 and lasts for 8.8 months, ending around June 6. 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 21 · 100%Apr 18 · 75%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb7921
Mar7822
Apr7723
May7822
Jun8812
Jul991
Aug955
Sep8119
Oct7624
Nov7822
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)
Jan9.97:465:41
Feb10.77:276:10
Mar11.76:526:36
Apr12.86:087:00
May13.85:367:24
Jun14.35:257:44
Jul14.15:367:43
Aug13.35:597:17
Sep12.26:226:35
Oct11.16:465:52
Nov10.27:155:24
Dec9.77:405:21

Sunny days

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

Zeribet el Oued 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 8 to Sep 10. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is October, down near 19 sunny days — about 35% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2329 daysOct 1818 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr19Bright
May20Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug28Brilliant
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 Zeribet el Oued, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around July 16 to October 21. 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 22 to July 15, 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 20 · 100%Sep 5 · 81%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr98200
May94500
Jun871300
Jul682830
Aug4939111
Sep4638142
Oct742150
Nov97300
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 Zeribet el Oued is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Feb 21 to Aug 16. The windiest month is May, averaging about 12 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 17 to Feb 20, with December the calmest month at about 9 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeMay 3 · 12 km/hDec 29 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar11calm
Apr12calm
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct9calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Zeribet el Oued

In seasonPeak

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

Zeribet el Oued 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 Zeribet el Oued

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid February, Zeribet el Oued 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 Zeribet el Oued for general outdoor tourist activities run from early February to early May and again from mid October to mid December, with a peak score in the last week of March.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 27 · 8.5

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
Jan6.3good
Feb7.4good
Mar8.2ideal
Apr8.0ideal
May5.3fair
Jun2.1poor
Jul0.2poor
Aug0.9poor
Sep3.9fair
Oct7.3good
Nov8.1ideal
Dec6.8good

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 Zeribet el Oued for hot-weather activities run from late March to early June and again from mid September to early November, with a peak score in the second week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 12 · 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 Zeribet el Oued, 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 40°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 16°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Zeribet el Oued sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Zeribet el Oued 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 Zeribet el Oued peaks around June 20 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 3 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 20UV 9Dec 22UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr6High
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Zeribet el Oued

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
Feb4.50
Mar60
Apr60
May7.53.5
Jun85
Jul84.5
Aug7.54
Sep6.53
Oct5.50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Zeribet el Oued 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 Zeribet el Oued is worst in June — around 44 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.4× the cleanest month (December, 18 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJun 1643 µg/m³Dec 1619 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan21Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr38Poor
May37Poor
Jun44Poor
Jul37Poor
Aug35Poor
Sep34Moderate
Oct28Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec18Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Zeribet el Oued 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. Zeribet el Oued banks about 4,424 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan37
Feb81
Mar202
Apr316
May492
Jun630
Jul740
Aug718
Sep555
Oct398
Nov189
Dec66

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.

Zeribet el Oued receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 7.8 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 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

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

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 287.8 kWhDec 182.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb4.3Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr6.7Intense
May7.3Intense
Jun7.7Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.9Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec2.8Moderate

Where is Zeribet el Oued?

Zeribet el Oued sits at 34.7°N, 6.5°E, 47 m above sea level, in Algeria. The nearest listed city is Sidi Okba, 56 km away.

Topography around Zeribet el Oued

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Zeribet el Oued has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 35 m around an average of 46 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 280 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,333 m.

The land around Zeribet el Oued is covered by bare terrain (75%) within 3 km, bare terrain (87%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (69%) within 80 km.

3 km
35 m
16 km
280 m
80 km
2,333 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwetland
Nearby: Sidi Okba 56 km · Arris 66 km · Biskra 74 km · Tazoult-Lambese 92 km · Aïn Touta 95 km · El Meghaïer 98 km · Kaïs 98 km · Khenchela 102 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 Zeribet el Oued (34.6828°, 6.5111°, elevation 47 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).