Climate and average weather in Akouda

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

Best: late January to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Akouda typically varies from 8°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 4°C or above 40°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 Akouda for warm-weather activities are from late January to late May and early October to late December.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
41 mm
Driest
Jul
2 mm
Rain / yr
283 mm
48 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
33 m
35.9°N
Clearest
Jul
11% cloud

Akouda 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 May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Akouda, 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 9 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in Akouda is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 23°C.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 25 to March 17, with daily high temperatures below 21°C. The coldest month of the year in Akouda is January, with an average low of 8°C and high of 17°C.

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

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan178
Feb188
Mar2110
Apr2413
May2817
Jun3220
Jul3523
Aug3524
Sep3121
Oct2718
Nov2213
Dec189

How hot and cold Akouda 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, Akouda feels like about 37°C (around August 12). About 96 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan171768
Feb181868
Mar2121910
Apr24241313
May28281717
Jun32322020
Jul36352323
Aug37352424
Sep32312121
Oct27271818
Nov22221313
Dec181879

Average hourly temperature in Akouda

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

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

Akouda 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° / 284.49.86.5
Feb18° / 244.810.66.8
Mar21° / 10°375.811.77.3
Apr24° / 13°255.412.97.9
May28° / 17°173.513.97.2
Jun32° / 20°71.614.44.9
Jul35° / 23°20.414.23.2
Aug35° / 24°10213.43.1
Sep31° / 21°415.312.25.0
Oct27° / 18°396.111.17.1
Nov22° / 13°274.310.17.8
Dec18° / 264.69.67.0

Chance of rain

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

Akouda gets about 283 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 3.8 months, from around Sep 1 to Dec 26, peaking in October at about 22% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 6.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 41 mm over about 5 wet days; July is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainOct 14 · 22%Jul 6 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan154
Feb175
Mar196
Apr185
May114
Jun52
Jul10
Aug72
Sep175
Oct206
Nov144
Dec145

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Akouda collects about 283 mm of rain across 48 wet days — roughly 24 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 41 mm, while July is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2824372517721041392726
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan284
Feb245
Mar376
Apr255
May174
Jun72
Jul20
Aug102
Sep415
Oct396
Nov274
Dec265

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Akouda, 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 1 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around September 16. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 98% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 17 and lasts for 8.4 months, ending around May 31. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 32% 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 18 · 99%Jan 22 · 65%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb6832
Mar6931
Apr7129
May7327
Jun8713
Jul982
Aug946
Sep7822
Oct6931
Nov7030
Dec7129

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 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.87:335:22
Feb10.67:135:52
Mar11.76:366:19
Apr12.95:516:45
May13.95:177:11
Jun14.45:057:31
Jul14.25:177:30
Aug13.45:417:03
Sep12.26:056:19
Oct11.16:315:35
Nov10.17:015:05
Dec9.67:275:01

Sunny days

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

Akouda averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around May 29 to Sep 13. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 14 sunny days — about 50% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2129 daysJan 2613 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr15Bright
May17Bright
Jun23Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug26Brilliant
Sep18Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov15Bright
Dec15Bright

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 Akouda, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around June 5 to October 30. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 89% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 31 to June 4, 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 2 · 100%Aug 20 · 8%oppressivemuggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9730000
Apr83160000
May553510000
Jun174234700
Jul523392930
Aug1103046131
Sep4133038140
Oct2025322030
Nov70218100
Dec9550000

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 Akouda is steady company: average speeds sit near 11 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 6 · 12 km/hAug 24 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Akouda

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Akouda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early February, Akouda 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 Akouda for general outdoor tourist activities run from late January to late May and again from early October to mid January, with a peak score in the first week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 7 · 8.0

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
Jan6.5good
Feb6.8good
Mar7.3good
Apr7.9ideal
May7.2good
Jun4.9fair
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep5.0fair
Oct7.1good
Nov7.8ideal
Dec7.0good

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 Akouda for hot-weather activities run from late April to late July and again from mid August to early November, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 27 · 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 Akouda, 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 35°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, Akouda sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Akouda

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

The sea offshore is warmest in August at about 27°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from May 29 to Nov 27 — about 6 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan16Cool
Feb15Bracing
Mar15Bracing
Apr16Cool
May19Cool
Jun22Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug27Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct24Refreshing
Nov21Refreshing
Dec18Cool

UV index (midday) in Akouda 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 Akouda peaks around July 16 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 2 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighHighVery highHighModerateJul 16UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr4Moderate
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug8Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct6High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Akouda

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 5.5 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
Mar5.50
Apr50
May73
Jun85
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53.5
Oct50
Nov1.50
Dec00

Air quality in Akouda 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 Akouda is worst in March — around 28 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1128 µg/m³Jul 2118 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan26Moderate
Feb27Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr25Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun19Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov26Moderate
Dec26Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Akouda 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. Akouda banks about 3,855 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan76
Feb85
Mar166
Apr248
May379
Jun490
Jul596
Aug603
Sep492
Oct384
Nov222
Dec115

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.

Akouda receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 18. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 67% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.7 kWhDec 182.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.7Moderate
Mar5.0Bright
Apr6.2Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.6Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.2Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov3.0Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Akouda?

Akouda sits at 35.9°N, 10.6°E, 33 m above sea level, in Tunisia. The nearest listed city is Kelaa Kebira, 3.0 km away.

Topography around Akouda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Akouda has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 90 m around an average of 29 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 153 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,210 m.

The land around Akouda is covered by artificial surfaces (46%) and grassland (36%) within 3 km, grassland (38%) and water (36%) within 16 km, and water (30%), grassland (29%) and cropland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
90 m
16 km
153 m
80 km
1,210 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Kelaa Kebira 3.0 km · Hammam Sousse 4.0 km · Kalaa Srira 5.0 km · Sousse 8.0 km · Ezzouhour 9.0 km · Zaouiet Sousse 11 km · Msaken 16 km · Maatmeur 17 km

Tunisia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$4,657
2025
Happiness
4.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
65%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
4.7
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
16.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 498
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 Akouda (35.8691°, 10.5653°, elevation 33 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).