Climate and average weather in Kélibia

In Kélibia, the summers are muggy, warm, dry, and clear and the winters are cool, breezy, and mostly clear.

Best: early May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kélibia typically varies from 12°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 30°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while February is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kélibia for warm-weather activities is from early May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Feb
12°
Wettest
Oct
65 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
424 mm
65 wet days
Daylight
9.5–14.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
11 m
36.8°N
Clearest
Jul
8% cloud

Kélibia 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 May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kélibia, 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 20 to September 27, with daily high temperatures above 25°C. The hottest month of the year in Kélibia is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 4.2 months, from December 5 to April 12, with daily high temperatures below 17°C. The coldest month of the year in Kélibia is February, with an average low of 12°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 3°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan1512
Feb1412
Mar1513
Apr1714
May2017
Jun2421
Jul2724
Aug2825
Sep2623
Oct2320
Nov1917
Dec1614

Average hourly temperature in Kélibia

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in February, near 12°C.

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

Kélibia 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
Jan15° / 12°538.19.84.6
Feb14° / 12°467.910.64.5
Mar15° / 13°44711.75.2
Apr17° / 14°305.712.96.4
May20° / 17°163.113.97.8
Jun24° / 21°61.214.59.0
Jul27° / 24°10.114.39.1
Aug28° / 25°61.213.48.5
Sep26° / 23°445.712.37.9
Oct23° / 20°657.5117.4
Nov19° / 17°598.8106.5
Dec16° / 14°569.19.55.3

Chance of rain

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

Kélibia gets about 424 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 7.2 months, from around Sep 13 to Apr 19, peaking in November at about 32% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 9.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 65 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetNov 28 · 32%Jul 9 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb288
Mar237
Apr196
May103
Jun41
Jul00
Aug41
Sep186
Oct258
Nov299
Dec289

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kélibia collects about 424 mm of rain across 65 wet days — roughly 35 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 65 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec534644301661644655956
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan538
Feb468
Mar447
Apr306
May163
Jun61
Jul10
Aug61
Sep446
Oct658
Nov599
Dec569

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kélibia, 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 25 and lasts for 3.8 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 8.2 months, ending around May 24. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 35% 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 22 · 99%Dec 19 · 65%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb6733
Mar7030
Apr7129
May7525
Jun8911
Jul982
Aug946
Sep7822
Oct6832
Nov6733
Dec6535

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 5 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.87:335:17
Feb10.67:125:48
Mar11.76:346:17
Apr12.95:486:44
May13.95:137:11
Jun14.55:017:31
Jul14.35:127:30
Aug13.45:377:02
Sep12.36:036:17
Oct11.06:295:32
Nov10.07:015:01
Dec9.57:274:56

Sunny days

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

Kélibia 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 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around May 9 to Sep 20. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 29 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 13 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the July peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2229 daysJan 2512 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr16Bright
May19Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep19Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec13Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around May 19 to November 3. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 4 to May 18, 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 4 · 100%Jul 29 · 0%miserablecomfortableoppressivehumidmuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9820000
Feb9910000
Mar9280000
Apr61382000
May184535300
Jun112384370
Jul011145412
Aug00628588
Sep052335324
Oct621333190
Nov393819400
Dec84151000

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 Kélibia is typically light breeze, near 17 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 1 to May 7. The windiest month is February, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 8 to Oct 31, with August the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyFeb 2 · 20 km/hAug 17 · 14 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan19light breeze
Feb19light breeze
Mar19light breeze
Apr18light breeze
May17light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov19light breeze
Dec19light breeze

Hazard calendar for Kélibia

In seasonPeak

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

Kélibia sees seasonal dust haze (June), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Kélibia

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early October, Kélibia 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 time of year to visit Kélibia for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 25 · 9.3

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
Jan4.6fair
Feb4.5fair
Mar5.2fair
Apr6.4good
May7.8ideal
Jun9.0ideal
Jul9.1ideal
Aug8.5ideal
Sep7.9ideal
Oct7.4good
Nov6.5good
Dec5.4fair

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 Kélibia for hot-weather activities is from mid June to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 28 · 9.2

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 Kélibia, 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 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around February (highs near 14°C), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Kélibia sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Kélibia

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 26°C and coldest in February near 15°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 5 to Nov 17 — about 5.5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan16Cool
Feb15Bracing
Mar15Bracing
Apr16Cool
May18Cool
Jun21Refreshing
Jul25Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct23Refreshing
Nov20Refreshing
Dec17Cool

UV index (midday) in Kélibia 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 Kélibia peaks around July 16 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighModerateHighVery highHighModerateJul 16UV 10Dec 21UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug8Very high
Sep7High
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Kélibia

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
Feb3.50
Mar5.50
Apr4.50
May6.51
Jun85
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.52.5
Oct50
Nov10
Dec00

Air quality in Kélibia 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 Kélibia is worst in March — around 22 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.7× the cleanest month (August, 13 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1622 µg/m³Aug 1813 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May18Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug13Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov15Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kélibia 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. Kélibia banks about 3,258 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)
Jan102
Feb81
Mar122
Apr172
May270
Jun369
Jul470
Aug502
Sep428
Oct356
Nov237
Dec150

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.

Kélibia receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.2 and 7.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 19 to Sep 18. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.5 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.3 kWh/m² — roughly 70% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 27.6 kWhDec 172.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.6Moderate
Feb3.5Moderate
Mar4.8Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May6.9Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.5Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.1Bright
Oct3.8Moderate
Nov2.7Moderate
Dec2.2Moderate

Where is Kélibia?

Kélibia sits at 36.8°N, 11.1°E, 11 m above sea level, in Tunisia. The nearest listed city is Menzel Temime, 12 km away.

Mennzel Bou ZelfaBeni KhalledBeni KhiarDar ChabanneDouane

Topography around Kélibia

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kélibia has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 74 m around an average of 16 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 738 m.

The land around Kélibia is covered by artificial surfaces (27%), grassland (23%) and cropland (23%) within 3 km, water (59%) and cropland (25%) within 16 km, and water (74%) within 80 km.

3 km
74 m
16 km
220 m
80 km
738 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Menzel Temime 12 km · Korba 37 km · Takelsa 42 km · Mennzel Bou Zelfa 49 km · Beni Khalled 50 km · Beni Khiar 50 km · Dar Chabanne 52 km · Douane 54 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 Kélibia (36.8476°, 11.0939°, elevation 11 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).