Climate and average weather in Sefrou

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

Best: early April to early July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sefrou typically varies from 3°C to 31°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 37°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 Sefrou for warm-weather activities are from early April to early July and early September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Apr
79 mm
Driest
Jul
13 mm
Rain / yr
619 mm
100 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
809 m
33.8°N
Clearest
Jul
28% cloud

Sefrou is city in Morocco.

Density
8,308/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Sefrou 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 April to early July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Sefrou, 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 17 to September 11, with daily high temperatures above 28°C. The hottest month of the year in Sefrou is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 18°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 17 to March 12, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Sefrou is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan143
Feb154
Mar176
Apr198
May2311
Jun2715
Jul3118
Aug3118
Sep2715
Oct2311
Nov187
Dec154

How hot and cold Sefrou 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, Sefrou feels like about 32°C (around July 26). About 21 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan141413
Feb151524
Mar171746
Apr191978
May23231111
Jun27271515
Jul31311818
Aug31311818
Sep27271515
Oct23231111
Nov181867
Dec151534

Average hourly temperature in Sefrou

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Sefrou 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
Jan14° / 5182.2104.4
Feb15° / 578.71.710.74.8
Mar17° / 6810.90.711.75.7
Apr19° / 7911.50.112.86.1
May23° / 11°7111.3013.76.8
Jun27° / 15°306.3014.27.1
Jul31° / 18°133.50145.3
Aug31° / 18°226013.35.0
Sep27° / 15°518.9012.26.8
Oct23° / 11°678.40.111.17.2
Nov18° / 608.30.410.26.0
Dec15° / 5080.99.85.0

Chance of rain

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

Sefrou gets about 619 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 4.5 months, from around Jan 17 to Jun 3, peaking in April at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 26.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 79 mm over about 12 wet days; July is the driest, with 13 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 19 · 40%Jul 26 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan268
Feb319
Mar3511
Apr3912
May3611
Jun216
Jul124
Aug196
Sep289
Oct288
Nov288
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sefrou collects about 619 mm of rain across 100 wet days — roughly 52 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 79 mm, while July is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec515768797130132251676050
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan5182
Feb5792
Mar68111
Apr79120
May71110
Jun3060
Jul1340
Aug2260
Sep5190
Oct6780
Nov6080
Dec5081

Snow in Sefrou

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.

Sefrou averages about 6 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 14 to Mar 28 — about 4.4 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 2 days of snow and an estimated 7 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 18 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 21
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan27
Feb26
Mar12
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec13

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sefrou, 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 June 3 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around October 4. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 5 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around June 2. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 44% 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 16 · 88%Apr 20 · 56%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb6337
Mar6040
Apr5644
May5941
Jun7822
Jul8812
Aug8416
Sep7327
Oct6238
Nov6337
Dec6337

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 20, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 20, 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)
Jan10.07:295:28
Feb10.77:125:56
Mar11.76:376:21
Apr12.85:546:45
May13.75:237:08
Jun14.25:127:27
Jul14.05:247:26
Aug13.35:457:01
Sep12.26:076:20
Oct11.16:305:39
Nov10.26:585:11
Dec9.87:235:08

Sunny days

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

Sefrou averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Jun 5 to Oct 1. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is March, down near 13 sunny days — about 32% fewer than the June peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2922 daysMar 3111 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb14Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
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 Sefrou, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.3 months, from around June 13 to September 19. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 19% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 20 to June 12, and April 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 14 · 100%Jul 20 · 79%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9910
May87130
Jun57376
Jul394319
Aug414117
Sep58366
Oct89110
Nov9910
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 Sefrou is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 1 · 8 km/hAug 21 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Sefrou

In seasonPeak

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

Sefrou 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 Sefrou

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid April, Sefrou 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 Sefrou for general outdoor tourist activities run from early April to early July and again from early September to mid November, with a peak score in the first week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 4 · 7.5

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb4.8fair
Mar5.7good
Apr6.1good
May6.8good
Jun7.1good
Jul5.3fair
Aug5.1fair
Sep6.8good
Oct7.2good
Nov6.0good
Dec5.0fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 30 · 8.4

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 Sefrou, 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 31°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Sefrou sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Sefrou 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 Sefrou 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 highHighModerateJul 19UV 11Dec 18UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar8Very high
Apr9Very high
May9Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct7High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Sefrou

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)
Jan20
Feb2.50
Mar6.53.5
Apr7.54.5
May85
Jun85
Jul8.56
Aug85
Sep73.5
Oct5.51.5
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Sefrou 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 Sefrou is worst in August — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 14 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateAug 1626 µg/m³Dec 1415 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr23Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct19Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec14Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Sefrou is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 9 to December 29 (324 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 990%Dec 2990%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8731
Feb9210
Mar980
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov990
Dec940

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. Sefrou banks about 2,226 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
Feb1
Mar51
Apr108
May216
Jun329
Jul453
Aug457
Sep328
Oct216
Nov67
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.

Sefrou receives about 5.3 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 18 to Sep 23. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.9 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
May6.8Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.5Intense
Aug6.8Intense
Sep5.7Bright
Oct4.4Bright
Nov3.4Moderate
Dec2.9Moderate

Where is Sefrou?

Sefrou sits at 33.8°N, 4.8°W, 809 m above sea level, in Morocco. The nearest listed city is Oulad Tayeb, 20 km away.

Topography around Sefrou

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sefrou has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 416 m around an average of 850 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,456 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,113 m.

The land around Sefrou is covered by grassland (44%) within 3 km, grassland (45%) and cropland (29%) within 16 km, and grassland (42%) and cropland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
416 m
16 km
1,456 m
80 km
3,113 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Oulad Tayeb 20 km · Imouzzer Kandar 20 km · Fez 27 km · Fès al Bali 29 km · Ras el Ma 29 km · New Fes 30 km · Aïn Taoujdat 37 km · Ribat Al Khayr 39 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 Sefrou (33.8319°, -4.828°, elevation 809 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).