Climate and average weather in El Gara

In El Gara, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are mild and mostly clear.

Best: mid February to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in El Gara typically varies from 7°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 3°C or above 36°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit El Gara for warm-weather activities are from mid February to mid July and late August to late December.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
49 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
315 mm
52 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
349 m
33.3°N
Clearest
Jul
11% cloud

El Gara 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 mid February to mid July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from June 10 to September 18, with daily high temperatures above 27°C. The hottest month of the year in El Gara is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 24 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 20°C. The coldest month of the year in El Gara is January, with an average low of 7°C and high of 17°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan177
Feb188
Mar2010
Apr2211
May2514
Jun2817
Jul3019
Aug3019
Sep2817
Oct2515
Nov2111
Dec189

Average hourly temperature in El Gara

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 August 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

El Gara 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° / 416.3106.2
Feb18° / 386.110.86.6
Mar20° / 10°41711.77.1
Apr22° / 11°346.212.87.4
May25° / 14°204.613.78.0
Jun28° / 17°41.214.28.0
Jul30° / 19°10.4146.7
Aug30° / 19°20.513.26.5
Sep28° / 17°122.412.27.7
Oct25° / 15°314.911.27.9
Nov21° / 11°496.210.37.3
Dec18° / 426.29.86.8

Chance of rain

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

El Gara gets about 315 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 7.2 months, from around Oct 12 to May 17, peaking in February at about 24% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 15.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 49 mm over about 6 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetFeb 28 · 24%Jul 15 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb226
Mar237
Apr216
May145
Jun51
Jul10
Aug21
Sep82
Oct165
Nov216
Dec206

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, El Gara collects about 315 mm of rain across 52 wet days — roughly 26 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 49 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec413841342041212314942
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan416
Feb386
Mar417
Apr346
May205
Jun41
Jul10
Aug21
Sep122
Oct315
Nov496
Dec426

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In El Gara, 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 21 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around September 26. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 96% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 27 and lasts for 7.8 months, ending around May 20. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 38% 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 20 · 97%Dec 2 · 61%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6436
Feb6436
Mar6337
Apr6436
May7228
Jun8713
Jul964
Aug937
Sep7921
Oct6634
Nov6535
Dec6238

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 11, 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)
Jan10.07:385:39
Feb10.87:206:07
Mar11.76:466:31
Apr12.86:046:54
May13.75:347:17
Jun14.25:247:35
Jul14.05:347:35
Aug13.25:567:10
Sep12.26:176:29
Oct11.26:395:49
Nov10.37:075:22
Dec9.87:315:19

Sunny days

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

El Gara averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around May 26 to Sep 19. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 13 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2428 daysMar 2712 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May16Bright
Jun22Bright
Jul28Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep19Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov14Mixed
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 El Gara, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.2 months, from around June 8 to October 14. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 86% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 15 to June 7, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 8 · 100%Aug 12 · 13%muggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan982000
Feb982000
Mar937000
Apr8415100
May5836600
Jun17483140
Jul22454191
Aug11355282
Sep62953120
Oct33432310
Nov8315200
Dec955000

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 El Gara is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 24 · 10 km/hSep 29 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for El Gara

In seasonPeak

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

El Gara 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 El Gara

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, El Gara 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 El Gara for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid February to mid July and again from late August to early January, with a peak score in the first week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 5 · 8.3

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
Feb6.6good
Mar7.1good
Apr7.4good
May8.0ideal
Jun8.0ideal
Jul6.7good
Aug6.5good
Sep7.7ideal
Oct7.9ideal
Nov7.3good
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 time of year to visit El Gara for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 4 · 9.3

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 El Gara, 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 August (highs near 30°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 August, El Gara sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near El Gara

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 53 km away) is warmest in August at about 23°C and coldest in February near 17°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from May 30 to Nov 5 — about 5.3 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan17Cool
Feb17Cool
Mar17Cool
Apr18Cool
May19Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul22Refreshing
Aug23Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct21Refreshing
Nov19Cool
Dec18Cool

UV index (midday) in El Gara 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 El Gara peaks around July 19 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 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 highHighModerateJul 19UV 11Dec 17UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr9Very high
May9Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep7Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in El Gara

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)
Jan2.50
Feb3.50
Mar6.53.5
Apr7.55
May85
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug85.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct62.5
Nov3.50
Dec00

Air quality in El Gara 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 El Gara is worst in January — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.4× the cleanest month (June, 18 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorJan 1543 µg/m³Jun 1618 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan43Poor
Feb41Poor
Mar32Moderate
Apr27Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul21Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct34Moderate
Nov36Poor
Dec41Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

El Gara 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. El Gara banks about 3,038 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan62
Feb84
Mar161
Apr198
May291
Jun365
Jul449
Aug458
Sep378
Oct311
Nov178
Dec104

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.

El Gara receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.8 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 21 to Sep 23. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 kWh/m² — roughly 62% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 107.7 kWhDec 172.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.2Moderate
Feb4.1Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun7.6Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.4Bright
Nov3.3Moderate
Dec2.8Moderate

Where is El Gara?

El Gara sits at 33.3°N, 7.2°W, 349 m above sea level, in Morocco. The nearest listed city is Ben Ahmed, 23 km away.

Topography around El Gara

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around El Gara has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 155 m around an average of 357 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 539 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,070 m.

The land around El Gara is covered by cropland (91%) within 3 km, cropland (86%) within 16 km, and cropland (61%) within 80 km.

3 km
155 m
16 km
539 m
80 km
1,070 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Ben Ahmed 23 km · Ad Darwa 30 km · Mediouna 33 km · Berrechid 33 km · Zawyat an Nwaçer 38 km · Benslimane 39 km · Tit Mellil 39 km · Lahraouyine 40 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 El Gara (33.2773°, -7.2324°, elevation 349 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).