Climate and average weather in Sufetula

In Sufetula, the summers are sweltering, 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 Sufetula typically varies from 3°C to 35°C, and is rarely below -0°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 Sufetula for warm-weather activities are from mid March to early June and late September to late November.

Hottest
Jul
35°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Sep
43 mm
Driest
Jul
9 mm
Rain / yr
295 mm
54 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
530 m
35.2°N
Clearest
Jul
20% cloud

Sufetula 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 Sufetula, 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 30°C. The hottest month of the year in Sufetula is July, with an average high of 35°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.8 months, from November 20 to March 15, with daily high temperatures below 18°C. The coldest month of the year in Sufetula is January, with an average low of 3°C and high of 14°C.

Days typically run about 13°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)
Jan143
Feb154
Mar186
Apr229
May2713
Jun3217
Jul3520
Aug3520
Sep3017
Oct2513
Nov198
Dec155

How hot and cold Sufetula 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, Sufetula feels like about 36°C (around July 24). About 79 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan141413
Feb151514
Mar181846
Apr222279
May27271313
Jun32321717
Jul35352020
Aug35352020
Sep30301717
Oct25251313
Nov191968
Dec151525

Average hourly temperature in Sufetula

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

Sufetula 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
Jan14° / 243.79.94.7
Feb15° / 194.110.75.2
Mar18° / 345.311.76.7
Apr22° / 325.112.97.6
May27° / 13°234.913.87.5
Jun32° / 17°163.514.35.0
Jul35° / 20°92.914.12.9
Aug35° / 20°195.113.33.2
Sep30° / 17°437.512.25.8
Oct25° / 13°314.911.17.8
Nov19° / 264.110.17.1
Dec15° / 193.19.75.4

Chance of rain

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

Sufetula gets about 295 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 2.5 months, from around Aug 7 to Oct 20, peaking in September at about 25% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 2.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 43 mm over about 8 wet days; July is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetSep 12 · 25%Jan 2 · 8%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb154
Mar175
Apr175
May165
Jun124
Jul93
Aug175
Sep248
Oct175
Nov134
Dec103

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sufetula collects about 295 mm of rain across 54 wet days — roughly 25 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 43 mm, while July is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec24193432231691943312619
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan244
Feb194
Mar345
Apr325
May235
Jun164
Jul93
Aug195
Sep438
Oct315
Nov264
Dec193

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sufetula, 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 16. 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 17 and lasts for 8.6 months, ending around June 4. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 34% 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%Mar 5 · 64%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb6733
Mar6634
Apr6733
May7030
Jun8218
Jul955
Aug919
Sep7624
Oct6832
Nov6832
Dec7030

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 15, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, 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)
Jan9.97:375:29
Feb10.77:185:58
Mar11.76:416:25
Apr12.95:576:50
May13.85:247:15
Jun14.35:137:35
Jul14.15:247:34
Aug13.35:477:08
Sep12.26:116:24
Oct11.16:365:41
Nov10.17:055:12
Dec9.77:315:09

Sunny days

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

Sufetula averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 13 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Jun 6 to Sep 11. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 14 sunny days — about 44% fewer than the July peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2526 daysMar 813 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar14Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun20Bright
Jul25Brilliant
Aug23Bright
Sep16Bright
Oct15Mixed
Nov15Bright
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 Sufetula, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around July 6 to October 20. The muggiest month is September, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 22% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 21 to July 5, 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 8 · 100%Sep 10 · 74%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr99100
May93700
Jun801820
Jul662770
Aug4733182
Sep4235203
Oct751970
Nov98200
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 Sufetula 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 10 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 3 · 11 km/hAug 22 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov9calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Sufetula

In seasonPeak

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

Sufetula 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 Sufetula

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 22 · 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
Jan4.7fair
Feb5.2fair
Mar6.7good
Apr7.6ideal
May7.4good
Jun5.0fair
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep5.8good
Oct7.8ideal
Nov7.1good
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 times of year to visit Sufetula for hot-weather activities run from late April to mid July and again from mid August to late October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 1 · 8.1

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 Sufetula, 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 14°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Sufetula sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Sufetula 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 Sufetula peaks around July 13 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 13UV 10Dec 22UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar7High
Apr5High
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Sufetula

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
Nov2.50
Dec00

Air quality in Sufetula 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 Sufetula 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%)

Sufetula is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about January 26 to December 28 (337 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeJan 2690%Dec 2890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan8926
Feb920
Mar980
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec944

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. Sufetula banks about 2,788 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb1
Mar60
Apr158
May300
Jun431
Jul545
Aug532
Sep393
Oct267
Nov98
Dec3

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.

Sufetula 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 6.1 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 19. 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 297.6 kWhDec 182.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.0Moderate
Feb3.9Moderate
Mar5.2Bright
Apr6.3Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun7.5Intense
Jul7.5Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep5.4Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov3.2Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Sufetula?

Sufetula sits at 35.2°N, 9.1°E, 530 m above sea level, in Tunisia. The nearest listed city is Kasserine, 27 km away.

ThalaFerianaDahmaniTajerouineTébessaGafsa

Topography around Sufetula

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sufetula has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 170 m around an average of 542 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 714 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,424 m.

The land around Sufetula is covered by grassland (58%) within 3 km, grassland (62%) within 16 km, and grassland (46%) and cropland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km
170 m
16 km
714 m
80 km
1,424 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Kasserine 27 km · Sidi Bouzid 39 km · Thala 56 km · Feriana 60 km · Dahmani 84 km · Tajerouine 90 km · Tébessa 93 km · Gafsa 95 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 Sufetula (35.2315°, 9.1232°, elevation 530 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).