Climate averages 1991–2020
El Achir 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 El Achir: daytime highs average 9.9°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 7 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 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bordj Bou Arreridj (12 km away). In January its highs average 10.1°C, about as warm as El Achir, with 34 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, El Achir ranks joint 50th of 55 for the warmest January highs and joint 22nd of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; El Achir is 3.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 11.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 34 mm to 29 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
El Achir climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Bordj Bou Arreridj in JanuaryAlgeria · 12 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.0°C · 34 mm rain
- M'Sila in JanuaryAlgeria · 40 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.3°C · 23 mm rain
- Sétif in JanuaryAlgeria · 72 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Béjaïa in JanuaryAlgeria · 87 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Tizi Ouzou in JanuaryAlgeria · 89 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.0°C · 111 mm rain
- El Eulma in JanuaryAlgeria · 96 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 1.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Barika in JanuaryAlgeria · 100 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 22 mm rain
- Bou Saâda in JanuaryAlgeria · 104 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.7°C · 23 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.