Climate and average weather in Kasserine

In Kasserine, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and clear and the winters are cool and mostly clear.

Best: mid March to early June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kasserine typically varies from 3°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -1°C or above 39°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 Kasserine for warm-weather activities are from mid March to early June and mid September to late November.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
40 mm
Driest
Jul
10 mm
Rain / yr
294 mm
59 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
674 m
35.2°N
Clearest
Jul
22% cloud

Kasserine 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 March to early June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from June 7 to September 12, with daily high temperatures above 29°C. The hottest month of the year in Kasserine is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 20 to March 15, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Kasserine is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 13°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan133
Feb143
Mar175
Apr218
May2612
Jun3116
Jul3519
Aug3419
Sep2916
Oct2412
Nov187
Dec144

How hot and cold Kasserine 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, Kasserine feels like about 35°C (around July 25). About 71 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around January 18), with roughly 47 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)
Jan131303
Feb141403
Mar171735
Apr212168
May26261212
Jun31311616
Jul35351919
Aug34341919
Sep29291616
Oct24241212
Nov181857
Dec141414

Average hourly temperature in Kasserine

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

Kasserine 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
Jan13° / 2349.94.0
Feb14° / 183.910.74.6
Mar17° / 325.911.76.2
Apr21° / 325.612.97.3
May26° / 12°265.613.87.6
Jun31° / 16°194.214.35.3
Jul35° / 19°103.714.13.3
Aug34° / 19°215.713.33.6
Sep29° / 16°407.712.26.1
Oct24° / 12°285.111.17.8
Nov18° / 254.210.26.6
Dec14° / 193.39.74.7

Chance of rain

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

Kasserine gets about 294 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 2.3 months, from around Aug 4 to Oct 13, peaking in September at about 26% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 40 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 10 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetSep 13 · 26%Jan 1 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb144
Mar196
Apr196
May186
Jun144
Jul124
Aug196
Sep258
Oct175
Nov134
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kasserine collects about 294 mm of rain across 59 wet days — roughly 24 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 40 mm, while July is the driest at just 10 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec231832322619102140282519
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan234
Feb184
Mar326
Apr326
May266
Jun194
Jul104
Aug216
Sep408
Oct285
Nov254
Dec193

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kasserine, 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 5 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around September 17. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 18 and lasts for 8.5 months, ending around June 4. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 37% 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 23 · 97%Jan 22 · 60%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb6436
Mar6436
Apr6535
May6832
Jun8119
Jul955
Aug919
Sep7525
Oct6733
Nov6634
Dec6733

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 16, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan9.97:385:30
Feb10.77:196:00
Mar11.76:436:26
Apr12.95:586:51
May13.85:267:16
Jun14.35:147:36
Jul14.15:267:35
Aug13.35:497:09
Sep12.26:126:26
Oct11.16:375:43
Nov10.27:065:13
Dec9.77:325:10

Sunny days

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

Kasserine averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around Jun 4 to Sep 12. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 13 sunny days — about 45% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2424 daysMar 913 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun19Bright
Jul24Brilliant
Aug21Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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 Kasserine, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 11% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 28 · 100%Sep 8 · 86%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May96400
Jun881110
Jul781840
Aug5929111
Sep5534110
Oct821520
Nov99100
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 Kasserine is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 9 to May 17. The windiest month is February, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 18 to Nov 8, with August the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 4 · 11 km/hAug 20 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Kasserine

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Kasserine

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Kasserine 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 Kasserine for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to early June and again from mid September to late November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 17 · 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
Jan4.1fair
Feb4.6fair
Mar6.2good
Apr7.3good
May7.5ideal
Jun5.3fair
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.6fair
Sep6.1good
Oct7.8ideal
Nov6.6good
Dec4.7fair

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 Kasserine for hot-weather activities is from early May to late October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 7 · 7.9

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 Kasserine, 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 13°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kasserine sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 19°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kasserine 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 Kasserine peaks around July 14 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJul 14UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar7High
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kasserine

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)
Jan00
Feb4.50
Mar62
Apr60
May7.54
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.56
Aug7.55
Sep74
Oct5.50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Kasserine 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 Kasserine is worst in April — around 26 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1925 µg/m³Dec 2018 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar23Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun24Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep24Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov21Moderate
Dec18Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Kasserine is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about February 25 to December 17 (296 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeFeb 2590%Dec 1790%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8331
Feb8724
Mar970
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov990
Dec9114

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. Kasserine banks about 2,565 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar33
Apr133
May277
Jun410
Jul524
Aug509
Sep369
Oct241
Nov69
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.

Kasserine receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 20. The brightest month is June, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.7 kWh/m² — roughly 64% less than the June peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 307.6 kWhDec 192.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.0Moderate
Feb3.9Moderate
Mar5.2Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun7.4Intense
Jul7.5Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.1Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Kasserine?

Kasserine sits at 35.2°N, 8.8°E, 674 m above sea level, in Tunisia. The nearest listed city is Sufetula, 27 km away.

ThalaSidi BouzidTébessaGafsaTajerouineBir el Ater

Topography around Kasserine

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kasserine has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 123 m around an average of 680 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 985 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,509 m.

The land around Kasserine is covered by artificial surfaces (33%) and grassland (32%) within 3 km, grassland (70%) within 16 km, and grassland (47%) and cropland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
123 m
16 km
985 m
80 km
1,509 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Sufetula 27 km · Feriana 35 km · Thala 47 km · Sidi Bouzid 61 km · Tébessa 70 km · Gafsa 83 km · Tajerouine 85 km · Bir el Ater 85 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 Kasserine (35.1676°, 8.8365°, elevation 674 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).