Climate averages 1991–2020
Batna weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Batna: daytime highs average 10.4°C and nights cool to about 0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 38 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 03 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Barika (76 km away). In January its highs average 12.5°C, 2.0°C warmer than Batna, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, Batna ranks joint 45th of 55 for the warmest January highs and 25th of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; Batna is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 11.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 38 mm to 31 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
Batna climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.4°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 38 | 7.5 | 10.010 h |
| February | 11.4°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 31 | 7.2 | 10.911 h |
| March | 15.0°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 51 | 9.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.7°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 54 | 9.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.7°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 57 | 9.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 28.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 28 | 6.8 | 14.515 h |
| July | 32.9°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 16 | 5.0 | 14.314 h |
| August | 32.1°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 26 | 7.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 26.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 46 | 9.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 38 | 7.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.1°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 34 | 6.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 11.2°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 34 | 6.3 | 9.810 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
- Barika in JanuaryAlgeria · 76 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 22 mm rain
- El Eulma in JanuaryAlgeria · 79 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 1.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Biskra in JanuaryAlgeria · 88 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 5.2°C · 13 mm rain
- Khenchela in JanuaryAlgeria · 89 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.4°C · 33 mm rain
- El Khroub in JanuaryAlgeria · 92 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Constantine in JanuaryAlgeria · 98 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Sétif in JanuaryAlgeria · 98 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Aïn Beïda in JanuaryAlgeria · 113 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 1.4°C · 33 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 Batna) is explained once on the Batna year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.