Taourirt climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Taourirt?

Taourirt has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.7 °C and it receives 181 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Taourirt?

The hottest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 10 July 2023, reaching 46.8 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Taourirt?

The coldest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 10 January 1954, at -4.5 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Taourirt?

Almost never: Taourirt sees virtually no snow, with about 2 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Taourirt warmed?

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

Q: What is the wettest day in Taourirt?

The wettest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 10 May 1968, with 72 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Taourirt?

The windiest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 28 February 1946, with winds reaching 48.6 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Taourirt?

The warmest month in Taourirt is August (27.9 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.4 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Taourirt?

Taourirt receives on average 181 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 37 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Taourirt?

Taourirt gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Taourirt (Morocco) has a hot desert climate (BWh) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 18.7 °C and it receives 181 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 (27.9 °C on average) and the coldest is January (10.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in April.

Taourirt averages 2 frost days, 115 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 37 rainy days per year.

Taourirt 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 4 to 0 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 46.8 °C (on 10 July 2023) and the coldest -4.5 °C (on 10 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

TaourirtOriental

coords: 34.41°, -2.90°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

BWhHot desertWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthAprilDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

18.7°C

Average daily high

25.2°C

Average daily low

13.4°C

Annual rainfall

181mm

Sunshine / day

10.9h

Mean relative humidity

60%

Average peak wind

18.1km/h

Seasonal range

17.5°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

2 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

115 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

37 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.4 cm

Average feels-like high

24.0 °C

Average feels-like low

12.4 °C

Average peak gust

34.3 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

67 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.4 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.66 · 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

46.8 °C

10 July 2023

Coldest day

-4.5 °C

10 January 1954

Wettest day

72 mm

10 May 1968

Windiest day

48.6 km/h

28 February 1946

Strongest gust

93.2 km/h

14 February 2016

Hottest feels-like

47.4 °C

13 August 2021

Coldest feels-like

-8.0 °C

28 January 2005

Snowiest day

7.8 cm

31 December 1942

Sunniest day

13.9 h

22 June 2025

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	41.9 °C8 June 2025	0.7 °C14 January 2025	20.5 °C	179 mm	142	0
2024	42.8 °C1 August 2024	2.0 °C28 December 2024	20.9 °C	110 mm	137	0
2023	46.8 °C10 July 2023	-0.2 °C1 February 2023	20.8 °C	107 mm	145	1
2022	43.9 °C14 August 2022	0.9 °C14 January 2022	20.8 °C	141 mm	156	0
2021	46.2 °C13 August 2021	-0.7 °C4 January 2021	20.1 °C	132 mm	132	1
2020	43.8 °C8 July 2020	0.7 °C13 January 2020	20.3 °C	144 mm	140	0
2019	43.3 °C6 August 2019	-1.7 °C8 January 2019	19.6 °C	169 mm	140	3
2018	41.2 °C27 August 2018	3.2 °C13 January 2018	19.2 °C	214 mm	115	0
2017	45.5 °C12 July 2017	0.1 °C1 January 2017	20.0 °C	91 mm	151	0
2016	43.7 °C5 September 2016	0.8 °C31 December 2016	20.0 °C	172 mm	135	0
2015	42.7 °C28 July 2015	-0.4 °C2 January 2015	20.0 °C	178 mm	138	1
2014	41.5 °C17 July 2014	-1.5 °C31 December 2014	20.1 °C	134 mm	157	1
2013	42.0 °C7 August 2013	-0.3 °C8 February 2013	19.1 °C	209 mm	132	1
2012	44.7 °C17 August 2012	-2.6 °C14 February 2012	19.4 °C	200 mm	147	3
2011	42.9 °C8 August 2011	-0.4 °C4 February 2011	19.7 °C	155 mm	135	1
2010	44.4 °C8 July 2010	-0.8 °C17 December 2010	19.9 °C	261 mm	125	1
2009	44.5 °C21 July 2009	1.6 °C10 January 2009	20.0 °C	149 mm	130	0
2008	40.6 °C7 August 2008	1.4 °C26 November 2008	19.1 °C	207 mm	120	0
2007	42.5 °C28 August 2007	-0.3 °C27 January 2007	18.9 °C	223 mm	123	1
2006	42.2 °C27 July 2006	0.6 °C4 January 2006	19.9 °C	147 mm	151	0
2005	43.4 °C7 August 2005	-4.4 °C28 January 2005	18.9 °C	116 mm	133	17
2004	44.3 °C23 August 2004	0.2 °C3 March 2004	19.3 °C	167 mm	135	0
2003	43.2 °C19 July 2003	-1.8 °C2 February 2003	19.6 °C	226 mm	134	2
2002	40.7 °C16 June 2002	1.8 °C7 December 2002	19.3 °C	198 mm	128	0
2001	44.9 °C23 July 2001	1.2 °C21 January 2001	19.9 °C	122 mm	139	0
2000	43.4 °C19 August 2000	-1.5 °C3 January 2000	19.2 °C	147 mm	120	3
1999	44.1 °C2 July 1999	-1.1 °C2 February 1999	19.3 °C	150 mm	135	2
1998	40.6 °C14 July 1998	0.1 °C1 December 1998	19.3 °C	91 mm	115	0
1997	38.0 °C26 July 1997	3.6 °C28 December 1997	19.6 °C	125 mm	115	0
1996	42.5 °C24 July 1996	-0.9 °C23 February 1996	18.7 °C	248 mm	97	1
1995	42.5 °C22 July 1995	-2.1 °C15 January 1995	19.3 °C	258 mm	96	2
1994	43.3 °C15 July 1994	-0.8 °C26 December 1994	19.6 °C	116 mm	114	2
1993	43.4 °C25 July 1993	-2.1 °C9 January 1993	18.1 °C	179 mm	87	6
1992	41.4 °C25 August 1992	-0.7 °C25 January 1992	18.2 °C	156 mm	97	3
1991	43.3 °C25 August 1991	-0.4 °C27 December 1991	18.1 °C	207 mm	103	1
1990	40.0 °C24 July 1990	2.1 °C1 December 1990	19.3 °C	135 mm	116	0
1989	43.0 °C10 August 1989	-0.8 °C2 January 1989	19.6 °C	150 mm	105	1
1988	44.0 °C2 August 1988	0.1 °C22 December 1988	18.9 °C	120 mm	98	0
1987	38.5 °C28 July 1987	-0.4 °C20 January 1987	19.2 °C	126 mm	106	2
1986	40.7 °C22 August 1986	-1.0 °C12 December 1986	18.4 °C	171 mm	110	2
1985	41.9 °C5 August 1985	-1.4 °C1 January 1985	19.0 °C	175 mm	116	6
1984	43.0 °C10 July 1984	-1.6 °C31 December 1984	18.2 °C	126 mm	97	5
1983	40.7 °C13 June 1983	-1.3 °C3 January 1983	19.2 °C	81 mm	126	3
1982	42.4 °C19 August 1982	-0.4 °C29 January 1982	18.3 °C	185 mm	100	2
1981	42.2 °C30 July 1981	-1.7 °C3 February 1981	18.6 °C	132 mm	114	6
1980	42.0 °C15 July 1980	-2.9 °C3 December 1980	18.6 °C	182 mm	115	3
1979	44.5 °C10 July 1979	1.4 °C3 March 1979	18.2 °C	134 mm	82	0
1978	45.6 °C17 July 1978	-1.5 °C15 January 1978	18.5 °C	146 mm	100	1
1977	36.3 °C26 June 1977	3.2 °C14 January 1977	18.3 °C	213 mm	86	0
1976	42.5 °C5 August 1976	-2.2 °C28 January 1976	17.7 °C	282 mm	90	4
1975	43.7 °C14 July 1975	-0.8 °C24 December 1975	17.8 °C	290 mm	96	7
1974	41.4 °C7 August 1974	1.1 °C23 December 1974	17.8 °C	179 mm	109	0
1973	41.7 °C14 September 1973	-3.2 °C24 January 1973	17.8 °C	356 mm	107	3
1972	40.4 °C23 July 1972	0.5 °C24 December 1972	17.6 °C	216 mm	87	0
1971	42.7 °C16 August 1971	-0.7 °C2 January 1971	17.7 °C	337 mm	98	1
1970	41.8 °C8 August 1970	-0.6 °C16 February 1970	18.8 °C	139 mm	112	2
1969	40.7 °C1 August 1969	-0.1 °C4 January 1969	18.0 °C	291 mm	86	1
1968	44.8 °C9 July 1968	0.4 °C12 January 1968	18.5 °C	337 mm	113	0
1967	43.8 °C1 August 1967	-2.6 °C15 December 1967	18.6 °C	275 mm	117	4
1966	43.1 °C11 July 1966	-0.9 °C28 November 1966	18.6 °C	135 mm	111	3
1965	41.2 °C30 July 1965	-2.0 °C9 January 1965	18.4 °C	285 mm	94	3
1964	41.0 °C25 July 1964	-2.2 °C31 December 1964	18.2 °C	167 mm	144	8
1963	40.7 °C24 August 1963	-0.7 °C26 December 1963	17.8 °C	256 mm	87	3
1962	42.1 °C20 August 1962	0.1 °C1 December 1962	18.2 °C	289 mm	102	0
1961	43.1 °C26 July 1961	-0.4 °C6 January 1961	18.9 °C	112 mm	103	1
1960	39.8 °C22 June 1960	1.1 °C16 December 1960	18.4 °C	202 mm	98	0
1959	42.1 °C28 July 1959	1.0 °C20 February 1959	18.0 °C	166 mm	85	0
1958	40.5 °C17 August 1958	2.0 °C19 January 1958	18.3 °C	162 mm	100	0
1957	40.3 °C8 August 1957	-1.3 °C27 December 1957	17.7 °C	230 mm	98	7
1956	40.3 °C8 September 1956	-2.9 °C5 February 1956	17.0 °C	211 mm	100	16
1955	41.7 °C24 July 1955	1.6 °C11 March 1955	19.0 °C	220 mm	122	0
1954	41.1 °C20 August 1954	-4.5 °C10 January 1954	17.4 °C	235 mm	111	10
1953	42.0 °C25 July 1953	-2.4 °C11 January 1953	17.9 °C	179 mm	110	9
1952	40.7 °C13 August 1952	-4.4 °C7 February 1952	18.3 °C	126 mm	119	4
1951	39.3 °C29 July 1951	0.1 °C27 February 1951	17.6 °C	161 mm	101	0
1950	40.6 °C29 July 1950	-0.1 °C4 March 1950	18.1 °C	213 mm	98	1
1949	41.8 °C4 July 1949	0.4 °C14 January 1949	18.1 °C	224 mm	102	0
1948	40.2 °C29 June 1948	2.3 °C14 January 1948	18.2 °C	201 mm	93	0
1947	40.2 °C7 August 1947	-0.7 °C27 December 1947	18.9 °C	206 mm	127	2
1946	42.5 °C13 July 1946	0.8 °C23 December 1946	18.0 °C	106 mm	110	0
1945	42.8 °C7 September 1945	-2.8 °C3 January 1945	18.8 °C	91 mm	132	2
1944	42.1 °C31 July 1944	-1.4 °C21 February 1944	17.5 °C	105 mm	97	2
1943	39.9 °C16 July 1943	-0.1 °C21 November 1943	17.8 °C	206 mm	120	1
1942	41.5 °C9 July 1942	0.1 °C8 January 1942	18.5 °C	249 mm	117	0
1941	42.1 °C20 July 1941	-3.0 °C7 January 1941	18.0 °C	94 mm	105	11
1940	42.3 °C10 August 1940	-3.5 °C28 December 1940	17.6 °C	154 mm	110	12

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.1 °C

+1.9 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

142 d/yr

+27

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

-2

Annual rainfall

179 mm

-2 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	18.5 °C	+2.4 °C	14 mm	-6 mm
Feb	20.1 °C	+2.0 °C	16 mm	-4 mm
Mar	21.0 °C	+0.1 °C	30 mm	+6 mm
Apr	25.4 °C	+2.2 °C	25 mm	0 mm
May	29.2 °C	+2.3 °C	29 mm	+10 mm
Jun	36.2 °C	+4.9 °C	1 mm	-5 mm
Jul	36.3 °C	+0.9 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Aug	37.1 °C	+1.6 °C	1 mm	-0 mm
Sep	32.6 °C	+1.2 °C	5 mm	-3 mm
Oct	29.1 °C	+2.9 °C	3 mm	-12 mm
Nov	22.8 °C	+2.2 °C	3 mm	-17 mm
Dec	16.2 °C	-0.5 °C	53 mm	+31 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

41.9 °C

8 Jun 2025

Coldest day

0.7 °C

14 Jan 2025

Wettest day

20.7 mm

13 Apr 2025

Windiest day

38.9 km/h

13 Nov 2025

Strongest gust

73.4 km/h

11 Apr 2025

Hottest feels-like

42.3 °C

18 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-2.1 °C

14 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

13.9 h

22 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Taourirt?

Taourirt has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.7 °C and it receives 181 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Taourirt?

The hottest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 10 July 2023, reaching 46.8 °C.

What is the coldest day in Taourirt?

The coldest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 10 January 1954, at -4.5 °C.

Does it snow in Taourirt?

Almost never: Taourirt sees virtually no snow, with about 2 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Taourirt warmed?

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

What is the wettest day in Taourirt?

The wettest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 10 May 1968, with 72 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Taourirt?

The windiest day measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 28 February 1946, with winds reaching 48.6 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Taourirt?

The warmest month in Taourirt is August (27.9 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.4 °C).

How much does it rain in Taourirt?

Taourirt receives on average 181 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 37 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Taourirt?

Taourirt gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Taourirt?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Taourirt between 1940 and 2025 was 31 December 1942, with 7.8 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Taourirt?

Yes: Taourirt has on average 67 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Taourirt?

In Taourirt, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 47.4 °C on 13 August 2021, and the lowest was -8.0 °C on 28 January 2005.

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