Climate averages 1991–2020
El Achir weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in El Achir: daytime highs average 10.6°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 46 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bordj Bou Arreridj (12 km away). In December its highs average 10.8°C, about as warm as El Achir, with 29 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, El Achir ranks joint 51st of 55 for the warmest December highs and joint 22nd of 55 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 55 cities is 14.1°C; El Achir is 3.5°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 9.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 29 mm to 34 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
El Achir climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.9°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 34 | 7.0 | 10.010 h |
| February | 11.0°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 29 | 7.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 14.6°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 41 | 7.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.2°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 44 | 8.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.4°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 39 | 6.8 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 20 | 4.5 | 14.615 h |
| July | 33.6°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 8.4 | 2.7 | 14.414 h |
| August | 32.8°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 16 | 5.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 26.6°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 38 | 7.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.1°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 33 | 6.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 34 | 6.5 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 10.6°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 29 | 6.2 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Bordj Bou Arreridj in DecemberAlgeria · 12 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 2.3°C · 29 mm rain
- M'Sila in DecemberAlgeria · 40 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.4°C · 20 mm rain
- Sétif in DecemberAlgeria · 72 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Béjaïa in DecemberAlgeria · 87 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 9.4°C · 85 mm rain
- Tizi Ouzou in DecemberAlgeria · 89 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 6.4°C · 109 mm rain
- El Eulma in DecemberAlgeria · 96 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.0°C · 50 mm rain
- Barika in DecemberAlgeria · 100 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 3.4°C · 19 mm rain
- Bou Saâda in DecemberAlgeria · 104 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 3.8°C · 18 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 El Achir) is explained once on the El Achir year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bordj Bou Arreridj lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.