Climate averages 1991–2020
Aflou weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Aflou: daytime highs average 9.2°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 18 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Laghouat (78 km away). In January its highs average 13.1°C, 3.9°C warmer than Aflou, with 11 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, Aflou ranks 55th of 55 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; Aflou is 4.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 10.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 18 mm to 19 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Aflou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 18 | 4.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.7°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 19 | 4.6 | 10.911 h |
| March | 14.6°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 23 | 5.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.3°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 30 | 5.5 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 25 | 5.4 | 13.914 h |
| June | 29.2°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 15 | 4.0 | 14.414 h |
| July | 33.4°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 8.5 | 2.8 | 14.214 h |
| August | 32.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 15 | 5.2 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 38 | 6.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.4°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 32 | 5.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 13.6°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 19 | 3.5 | 10.410 h |
| December | 10.0°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 16 | 3.6 | 9.910 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Laghouat in JanuaryAlgeria · 78 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 1.6°C · 11 mm rain
- El Bayadh in JanuaryAlgeria · 111 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 0.4°C · 20 mm rain
- Djelfa in JanuaryAlgeria · 123 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 29 mm rain
- Messaad in JanuaryAlgeria · 129 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.5°C · 14 mm rain
- Sougueur in JanuaryAlgeria · 132 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 1.8°C · 40 mm rain
- Hassi Bahbah in JanuaryAlgeria · 136 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 1.9°C · 27 mm rain
- Tiaret in JanuaryAlgeria · 157 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 1.3°C · 51 mm rain
- Aïn Oussera in JanuaryAlgeria · 166 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 1.7°C · 21 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Aflou) is explained once on the Aflou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.