Medea climate — normals and trends
Medea has a hot-summer mediterranean climate, averaging 15.8 °C annually with 544 mm of rain per year.
Climate normals · ERA5
MedeaMedea Province
- coords
- 36.26°, 2.75°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
The normals for this period
The average of every indicator across the whole window: temperature, water, sky, wind and notable days.
Mean daily temperature
15.8°C
Average daily high
21.6°C
Average daily low
10.6°C
Annual rainfall
544mm
Sunshine / day
10.5h
Mean relative humidity
67%
Average peak wind
13.0km/h
Seasonal range
18.7°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
11 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
76 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
91 d/yr
Annual snowfall
9.6 cm
Average feels-like high
20.9 °C
Average feels-like low
9.2 °C
Average peak gust
36.4 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
33 d/yr
Solar radiation
18.0 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
What the yearly averages say about warming here, and whether the slope is statistically solid.
+2.6 °C
since 1940
+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.58 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Climate month by month
How an average year unfolds: when it rains, when it turns hot, when the sun is out.
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
The most extreme days ever measured here, then the year-by-year detail.
Hottest day
43.6 °C
23 July 2023
Coldest day
-12.8 °C
27 January 2005
Wettest day
92 mm
27 November 1971
Windiest day
35.0 km/h
6 February 1996
Strongest gust
111.2 km/h
31 January 2015
Hottest feels-like
43.5 °C
10 July 2023
Coldest feels-like
-16.8 °C
27 January 2005
Snowiest day
14.8 cm
24 January 1946
Sunniest day
14.0 h
3 June 1940
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
A specific year
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 14.1 °C | +2.1 °C | 90 mm | +23 mm |
| Feb | 16.1 °C | +2.7 °C | 29 mm | -31 mm |
| Mar | 18.1 °C | +2.0 °C | 49 mm | -18 mm |
| Apr | 22.2 °C | +3.3 °C | 67 mm | -1 mm |
| May | 24.8 °C | +1.6 °C | 66 mm | +16 mm |
| Jun | 34.0 °C | +5.6 °C | 5 mm | -13 mm |
| Jul | 34.1 °C | +1.4 °C | 8 mm | +3 mm |
| Aug | 34.4 °C | +1.6 °C | 3 mm | -8 mm |
| Sep | 30.7 °C | +2.1 °C | 38 mm | +7 mm |
| Oct | 25.8 °C | +2.8 °C | 26 mm | -24 mm |
| Nov | 18.6 °C | +1.7 °C | 37 mm | -17 mm |
| Dec | 14.1 °C | +1.2 °C | 50 mm | -16 mm |
The year's extremes
What was the weather like that day?
The weather actually measured on a given date, anywhere in the covered window.
Climate at a glance
What these normals say about the place, in a few sentences, and the notions needed to read them.
Medea (Algeria) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 15.8 °C and it receives 544 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (25.9 °C on average) and the coldest is January (7.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in April.
Medea averages 11 frost days, 76 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 91 rainy days per year.
Medea has warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.31 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 19 to 3 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 43.6 °C (on 23 July 2023) and the coldest -12.8 °C (on 27 January 2005).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Medea?
Medea has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 15.8 °C and it receives 544 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Medea?
The hottest day measured in Medea between 1940 and 2025 was 23 July 2023, reaching 43.6 °C.
What is the coldest day in Medea?
The coldest day measured in Medea between 1940 and 2025 was 27 January 2005, at -12.8 °C.
Does it snow in Medea?
Yes. Medea gets on average 9.6 cm of snow per year and has around 11 frost days.
Has the climate of Medea warmed?
Yes: Medea warmed by +2.6 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Medea?
The wettest day measured in Medea between 1940 and 2025 was 27 November 1971, with 92 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Medea?
The windiest day measured in Medea between 1940 and 2025 was 6 February 1996, with winds reaching 35.0 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Medea?
The warmest month in Medea is July (25.9 °C on average); the coldest is January (7.2 °C).
How much does it rain in Medea?
Medea receives on average 544 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 91 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Medea?
Medea gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Medea?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Medea between 1940 and 2025 was 24 January 1946, with 14.8 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Medea?
Yes: Medea has on average 33 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Medea?
In Medea, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 43.5 °C on 10 July 2023, and the lowest was -16.8 °C on 27 January 2005.
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