Climate and average weather in Azrou

In Azrou, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late August to early November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Azrou typically varies from 2°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -2°C or above 34°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 Azrou for warm-weather activities are from late April to early July and late August to early November.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Mar
77 mm
Driest
Jul
19 mm
Rain / yr
635 mm
103 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,277 m
33.4°N
Clearest
Jul
27% cloud

Azrou 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 August to early November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.9 months, from June 18 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in Azrou is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 17 to March 13, with daily high temperatures below 15°C. The coldest month of the year in Azrou is January, with an average low of 2°C and high of 12°C.

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

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan122
Feb133
Mar155
Apr187
May2110
Jun2614
Jul3018
Aug3018
Sep2614
Oct2111
Nov166
Dec133

How hot and cold Azrou 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around January 19), with roughly 39 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan1212-12
Feb131303
Mar151535
Apr171857
May21211010
Jun26261414
Jul30301818
Aug30301818
Sep26261414
Oct21211011
Nov161646
Dec131313

Average hourly temperature in Azrou

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Azrou 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° / 677.83.6103.5
Feb13° / 668.6310.83.9
Mar15° / 7710.81.811.74.8
Apr18° / 7410.20.412.85.8
May21° / 10°60110.113.76.6
Jun26° / 14°287.4014.27.5
Jul30° / 18°197.70145.7
Aug30° / 18°239.2013.25.5
Sep26° / 14°367.7012.27.4
Oct21° / 11°517.20.111.27.1
Nov16° / 7180.810.35.3
Dec13° / 647.81.69.84.1

Chance of rain

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

Azrou gets about 635 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 4.4 months, from around Jan 21 to Jun 4, peaking in April at about 36% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 2.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 77 mm over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 19 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 19 · 36%Jan 2 · 21%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb319
Mar3511
Apr3510
May3411
Jun267
Jul258
Aug289
Sep258
Oct247
Nov278
Dec258

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Azrou collects about 635 mm of rain across 103 wet days — roughly 53 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 77 mm, while July is the driest at just 19 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec676677746028192336517164
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan6784
Feb6693
Mar77112
Apr74100
May60110
Jun2870
Jul1980
Aug2390
Sep3680
Oct5170
Nov7181
Dec6482

Snow in Azrou

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Azrou averages about 11 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 8 to Apr 11 — about 5.1 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 20 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 56 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 23
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan420
Feb317
Mar26
Apr02
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov13
Dec28

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Azrou, 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 30 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around October 4. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 5 and lasts for 7.8 months, ending around May 29. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 43% 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 17 · 90%Mar 28 · 55%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6040
Feb6238
Mar5743
Apr5842
May6139
Jun7921
Jul8911
Aug8515
Sep7525
Oct6139
Nov6040
Dec6139

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 10, brings about 14 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:305:30
Feb10.87:135:58
Mar11.76:386:23
Apr12.85:566:46
May13.75:257:09
Jun14.25:157:27
Jul14.05:267:27
Aug13.25:477:02
Sep12.26:096:21
Oct11.26:315:41
Nov10.36:595:13
Dec9.87:235:11

Sunny days

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

Azrou averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Jun 5 to Sep 22. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is March, down near 13 sunny days — about 29% fewer than the June peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2921 daysMar 2912 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov15Mixed
Dec15Mixed

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 Azrou, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 5% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May9730
Jun79201
Jul67285
Aug73234
Sep87130
Oct9910
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.

Wind in Azrou 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 2 · 10 km/hJul 26 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Azrou

In seasonPeak

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

Azrou sees seasonal dust haze (July–August), heaviest in July.

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

Best time to visit Azrou

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Azrou 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 times of year to visit Azrou for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to early July and again from late August to early November, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 30 · 7.6

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
Jan3.6fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar4.8fair
Apr5.8good
May6.7good
Jun7.4good
Jul5.7good
Aug5.6good
Sep7.3good
Oct7.1good
Nov5.3fair
Dec4.1fair

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 Azrou for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the first week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 5 · 7.8

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 Azrou, 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 30°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, Azrou sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Azrou 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 Azrou peaks around July 19 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 3 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateVery highExtremeVery highModerateJul 19UV 11Dec 18UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr10Very high
May9Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep8Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Azrou

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 6.5 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
Feb3.50
Mar74
Apr7.55
May85.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56.5
Aug85.5
Sep74.5
Oct62.5
Nov3.50
Dec00

Air quality in Azrou 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 Azrou is worst in August — around 25 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateAug 1725 µg/m³Jun 1618 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb25Moderate
Mar23Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep21Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov19Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Azrou is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 26 to December 7 (285 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2690%Dec 790%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7631
Feb8327
Mar950
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov970
Dec8828

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. Azrou banks about 1,927 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar13
Apr66
May177
Jun296
Jul428
Aug431
Sep299
Oct181
Nov34
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.

Azrou receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.9 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 24. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.0 kWh/m² — roughly 60% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 17.6 kWhDec 172.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.3Moderate
Feb4.2Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.5Intense
Aug6.8Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.5Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec3.0Moderate

Where is Azrou?

Azrou sits at 33.4°N, 5.2°W, 1,277 m above sea level, in Morocco. The nearest listed city is Ifrane, 15 km away.

Topography around Azrou

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Azrou has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 650 m around an average of 1,365 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,158 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,617 m.

The land around Azrou is covered by cropland (33%), trees (30%) and grassland (22%) within 3 km, grassland (47%), trees (29%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and grassland (44%) and cropland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
650 m
16 km
1,158 m
80 km
2,617 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Ifrane 15 km · El Hajeb 31 km · Imouzzer Kandar 38 km · Agouraï 40 km · Mrirt 44 km · Sabaa Aiyoun 54 km · Aïn Taoujdat 56 km · Sefrou 57 km

Morocco travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 42% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$4,672
2025
Happiness
4.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
80%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.7
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
17
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 492
Religion
Muslim 99%other 1%

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 Azrou (33.4344°, -5.2213°, elevation 1,277 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).