Ras el Ma climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Ras el Ma?

Ras el Ma has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 17.5 °C and it receives 560 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Ras el Ma?

The hottest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 10 July 2023, reaching 45.2 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Ras el Ma?

The coldest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1954, at -3.5 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Ras el Ma?

Almost never: Ras el Ma sees virtually no snow, with about 1 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Ras el Ma warmed?

Yes: Ras el Ma warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Ras el Ma?

The wettest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 6 November 1962, with 63 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Ras el Ma?

The windiest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 16 February 1956, with winds reaching 38.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Ras el Ma?

The warmest month in Ras el Ma is August (26.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (9.8 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Ras el Ma?

Ras el Ma receives on average 560 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 85 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Ras el Ma?

Ras el Ma gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Ras el Ma (Morocco) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 17.5 °C and it receives 560 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 August (26.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (9.8 °C). Rainfall peaks in March.

Ras el Ma averages 1 frost days, 81 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 85 rainy days per year.

Ras el Ma has warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.29 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 2 to 0 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 45.2 °C (on 10 July 2023) and the coldest -3.5 °C (on 9 January 1954).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Ras el MaFes-Meknes

coords: 33.97°, -5.10°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CsaHot-summer MediterraneanWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthMarchDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

17.5°C

Average daily high

23.2°C

Average daily low

12.2°C

Annual rainfall

560mm

Sunshine / day

10.7h

Mean relative humidity

65%

Average peak wind

12.1km/h

Seasonal range

16.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

1 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

81 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

85 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.8 cm

Average feels-like high

22.8 °C

Average feels-like low

11.2 °C

Average peak gust

31.6 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

36 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.8 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.4 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.57 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

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

Hottest day

45.2 °C

10 July 2023

Coldest day

-3.5 °C

9 January 1954

Wettest day

63 mm

6 November 1962

Windiest day

38.1 km/h

16 February 1956

Strongest gust

105.8 km/h

16 January 1972

Hottest feels-like

46.3 °C

10 July 2023

Coldest feels-like

-7.3 °C

28 January 2005

Snowiest day

9.3 cm

13 December 1949

Sunniest day

13.8 h

26 June 2023

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	41.5 °C12 August 2025	0.6 °C1 January 2025	19.0 °C	600 mm	113	0
2024	43.0 °C23 July 2024	0.4 °C11 December 2024	19.4 °C	475 mm	105	0
2023	45.2 °C10 July 2023	-1.0 °C26 January 2023	19.8 °C	341 mm	122	2
2022	42.2 °C24 July 2022	1.8 °C20 January 2022	19.8 °C	410 mm	129	0
2021	44.8 °C10 July 2021	-0.4 °C4 January 2021	18.5 °C	470 mm	111	1
2020	42.0 °C7 July 2020	1.6 °C13 January 2020	19.3 °C	422 mm	121	0
2019	41.1 °C23 August 2019	-0.5 °C8 January 2019	18.4 °C	373 mm	116	1
2018	40.0 °C2 August 2018	0.4 °C28 January 2018	17.6 °C	689 mm	92	0
2017	43.5 °C12 July 2017	-0.5 °C16 January 2017	19.8 °C	344 mm	136	1
2016	43.0 °C19 July 2016	2.3 °C11 March 2016	19.2 °C	468 mm	119	0
2015	40.7 °C27 June 2015	0.9 °C2 February 2015	18.9 °C	423 mm	105	0
2014	40.0 °C16 July 2014	1.2 °C31 December 2014	18.3 °C	495 mm	106	0
2013	41.4 °C31 July 2013	0.4 °C8 February 2013	17.8 °C	560 mm	97	0
2012	42.4 °C16 July 2012	-1.6 °C5 February 2012	18.1 °C	563 mm	111	5
2011	41.6 °C20 August 2011	-0.3 °C2 February 2011	18.2 °C	634 mm	114	2
2010	42.1 °C26 August 2010	2.1 °C10 January 2010	18.6 °C	830 mm	97	0
2009	42.8 °C21 July 2009	1.9 °C13 January 2009	18.5 °C	613 mm	109	0
2008	40.9 °C23 July 2008	1.6 °C3 December 2008	18.1 °C	576 mm	96	0
2007	41.5 °C4 August 2007	-0.8 °C27 January 2007	18.0 °C	425 mm	86	1
2006	41.7 °C10 July 2006	0.8 °C10 January 2006	18.5 °C	483 mm	97	0
2005	43.2 °C20 July 2005	-3.5 °C28 January 2005	18.5 °C	322 mm	122	7
2004	42.4 °C28 June 2004	-0.4 °C20 January 2004	18.1 °C	408 mm	109	2
2003	42.5 °C29 July 2003	-1.1 °C16 January 2003	18.3 °C	720 mm	106	4
2002	39.5 °C28 July 2002	2.2 °C8 December 2002	18.1 °C	551 mm	78	0
2001	40.9 °C22 July 2001	2.0 °C28 December 2001	18.5 °C	337 mm	94	0
2000	40.6 °C31 July 2000	-0.2 °C11 January 2000	18.1 °C	444 mm	93	1
1999	40.4 °C1 July 1999	0.1 °C18 December 1999	17.7 °C	433 mm	83	0
1998	38.7 °C10 August 1998	0.2 °C7 December 1998	17.7 °C	457 mm	67	0
1997	37.1 °C14 August 1997	4.4 °C26 January 1997	18.0 °C	694 mm	52	0
1996	40.3 °C24 July 1996	-1.3 °C23 February 1996	17.3 °C	907 mm	65	1
1995	41.8 °C23 July 1995	-0.5 °C9 January 1995	18.3 °C	415 mm	73	1
1994	40.8 °C3 July 1994	1.1 °C26 December 1994	17.7 °C	347 mm	74	0
1993	39.0 °C4 August 1993	-0.2 °C9 January 1993	16.5 °C	524 mm	57	1
1992	38.6 °C24 August 1992	-0.8 °C25 January 1992	16.9 °C	403 mm	61	2
1991	39.5 °C20 August 1991	0.0 °C5 February 1991	16.8 °C	524 mm	79	0
1990	39.5 °C3 August 1990	1.6 °C22 January 1990	17.7 °C	539 mm	69	0
1989	39.8 °C21 July 1989	-0.2 °C4 January 1989	18.0 °C	682 mm	85	1
1988	42.1 °C28 July 1988	0.8 °C19 December 1988	17.6 °C	471 mm	73	0
1987	38.6 °C27 July 1987	-0.4 °C18 January 1987	18.0 °C	650 mm	72	1
1986	40.4 °C29 July 1986	0.1 °C12 December 1986	17.3 °C	447 mm	73	0
1985	41.7 °C4 August 1985	-2.3 °C16 January 1985	17.9 °C	495 mm	91	4
1984	39.5 °C23 July 1984	-0.6 °C16 February 1984	16.8 °C	490 mm	65	2
1983	36.5 °C13 June 1983	-0.7 °C13 February 1983	17.6 °C	440 mm	63	2
1982	41.6 °C19 August 1982	0.4 °C31 December 1982	16.8 °C	608 mm	55	0
1981	40.6 °C29 July 1981	-1.6 °C15 January 1981	17.8 °C	373 mm	79	4
1980	40.8 °C22 July 1980	-1.4 °C3 December 1980	17.3 °C	543 mm	83	1
1979	41.6 °C28 July 1979	0.2 °C31 March 1979	16.8 °C	633 mm	58	0
1978	40.5 °C17 July 1978	0.0 °C15 January 1978	17.1 °C	507 mm	73	0
1977	34.5 °C19 July 1977	-0.2 °C24 November 1977	16.6 °C	612 mm	39	1
1976	39.0 °C8 August 1976	-2.1 °C28 January 1976	16.1 °C	807 mm	46	3
1975	39.6 °C15 July 1975	1.4 °C8 January 1975	16.2 °C	653 mm	59	0
1974	38.8 °C6 August 1974	1.0 °C5 March 1974	16.4 °C	557 mm	75	0
1973	39.1 °C27 July 1973	0.6 °C4 February 1973	16.8 °C	633 mm	72	0
1972	37.3 °C18 August 1972	-0.2 °C25 January 1972	15.4 °C	913 mm	31	1
1971	36.7 °C31 July 1971	-0.1 °C2 January 1971	16.1 °C	853 mm	56	1
1970	38.6 °C26 July 1970	-0.4 °C16 February 1970	17.5 °C	623 mm	78	1
1969	37.2 °C16 July 1969	0.7 °C3 December 1969	16.9 °C	1,045 mm	57	0
1968	40.9 °C9 July 1968	1.3 °C5 February 1968	17.3 °C	776 mm	82	0
1967	40.1 °C19 July 1967	-0.7 °C13 December 1967	17.0 °C	687 mm	66	2
1966	39.7 °C11 July 1966	1.2 °C28 November 1966	17.1 °C	448 mm	70	0
1965	40.6 °C5 August 1965	-0.1 °C10 January 1965	16.9 °C	652 mm	56	1
1964	37.8 °C2 September 1964	-1.0 °C28 January 1964	17.2 °C	475 mm	108	3
1963	37.3 °C15 July 1963	-0.4 °C24 December 1963	16.6 °C	853 mm	54	1
1962	40.0 °C20 August 1962	-0.4 °C10 February 1962	17.0 °C	705 mm	79	2
1961	40.6 °C25 July 1961	-0.6 °C15 January 1961	17.7 °C	449 mm	72	1
1960	36.9 °C28 August 1960	-1.1 °C18 January 1960	16.8 °C	756 mm	58	1
1959	38.4 °C16 August 1959	1.5 °C4 January 1959	16.5 °C	596 mm	48	0
1958	38.5 °C16 August 1958	1.7 °C28 February 1958	17.3 °C	415 mm	65	0
1957	37.7 °C10 July 1957	-1.5 °C21 January 1957	16.6 °C	637 mm	69	5
1956	39.1 °C1 August 1956	-2.9 °C21 February 1956	15.8 °C	764 mm	65	7
1955	39.6 °C4 July 1955	1.0 °C13 March 1955	17.9 °C	752 mm	93	0
1954	41.3 °C19 August 1954	-3.5 °C9 January 1954	16.3 °C	509 mm	81	9
1953	41.4 °C20 July 1953	-2.0 °C10 January 1953	16.7 °C	599 mm	84	7
1952	40.8 °C11 July 1952	-1.8 °C7 February 1952	16.6 °C	463 mm	76	7
1951	39.9 °C27 July 1951	-0.4 °C31 January 1951	16.4 °C	641 mm	65	1
1950	38.8 °C22 August 1950	0.7 °C20 January 1950	17.1 °C	464 mm	78	0
1949	38.6 °C10 August 1949	0.8 °C15 January 1949	17.2 °C	536 mm	60	0
1948	40.0 °C25 July 1948	0.8 °C18 January 1948	17.4 °C	372 mm	79	0
1947	39.0 °C31 July 1947	0.2 °C20 December 1947	17.4 °C	640 mm	64	0
1946	41.3 °C13 July 1946	-0.1 °C26 December 1946	16.5 °C	466 mm	78	1
1945	40.1 °C21 July 1945	-1.5 °C7 January 1945	18.0 °C	391 mm	78	5
1944	41.5 °C31 July 1944	-0.7 °C21 February 1944	16.8 °C	324 mm	55	1
1943	39.7 °C15 August 1943	-0.2 °C20 November 1943	16.9 °C	656 mm	87	1
1942	41.4 °C16 July 1942	0.0 °C31 December 1942	16.9 °C	714 mm	83	0
1941	40.9 °C21 July 1941	-2.6 °C4 January 1941	16.6 °C	524 mm	78	6
1940	39.8 °C16 August 1940	-2.0 °C29 December 1940	16.2 °C	607 mm	77	6

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

25.2 °C

+2.0 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

113 d/yr

+32

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

-1

Annual rainfall

600 mm

+40 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	17.3 °C	+2.4 °C	45 mm	-16 mm
Feb	17.7 °C	+1.4 °C	53 mm	-13 mm
Mar	17.8 °C	-0.8 °C	160 mm	+87 mm
Apr	22.1 °C	+1.6 °C	79 mm	+11 mm
May	26.7 °C	+2.5 °C	20 mm	-28 mm
Jun	33.6 °C	+4.9 °C	9 mm	-12 mm
Jul	35.1 °C	+2.0 °C	1 mm	-3 mm
Aug	35.9 °C	+2.8 °C	7 mm	+1 mm
Sep	31.7 °C	+2.4 °C	14 mm	-11 mm
Oct	28.6 °C	+4.0 °C	9 mm	-46 mm
Nov	21.0 °C	+1.7 °C	49 mm	-17 mm
Dec	14.6 °C	-1.1 °C	155 mm	+87 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

41.5 °C

12 Aug 2025

Coldest day

0.6 °C

1 Jan 2025

Wettest day

29.8 mm

12 Mar 2025

Windiest day

29.7 km/h

14 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

79.2 km/h

14 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

41.8 °C

8 Jun 2025

Coldest feels-like

-2.9 °C

1 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

13.8 h

8 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Ras el Ma?

Ras el Ma has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 17.5 °C and it receives 560 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Ras el Ma?

The hottest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 10 July 2023, reaching 45.2 °C.

What is the coldest day in Ras el Ma?

The coldest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1954, at -3.5 °C.

Does it snow in Ras el Ma?

Almost never: Ras el Ma sees virtually no snow, with about 1 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Ras el Ma warmed?

Yes: Ras el Ma warmed by +2.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Ras el Ma?

The wettest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 6 November 1962, with 63 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Ras el Ma?

The windiest day measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 16 February 1956, with winds reaching 38.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Ras el Ma?

The warmest month in Ras el Ma is August (26.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (9.8 °C).

How much does it rain in Ras el Ma?

Ras el Ma receives on average 560 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 85 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Ras el Ma?

Ras el Ma gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Ras el Ma?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Ras el Ma between 1940 and 2025 was 13 December 1949, with 9.3 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Ras el Ma?

Yes: Ras el Ma has on average 36 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Ras el Ma?

In Ras el Ma, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 46.3 °C on 10 July 2023, and the lowest was -7.3 °C on 28 January 2005.

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