Climate averages 1991–2020
Jijel weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Jijel: daytime highs average 14.8°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 128 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Béjaïa (61 km away). In January its highs average 14.7°C, about as warm as Jijel, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, Jijel ranks joint 20th of 55 for the warmest January highs and 55th of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; Jijel is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 15.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 128 mm to 111 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
Jijel climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.8°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 128 | 13.8 | 9.910 h |
| February | 15.0°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 111 | 13.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.1°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 96 | 11.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 88 | 10.8 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.2°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 62 | 8.1 | 14.114 h |
| June | 26.1°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 18 | 3.1 | 14.615 h |
| July | 29.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 3.0 | 0.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 30.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 16 | 2.5 | 13.614 h |
| September | 27.1°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 65 | 9.0 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.8°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 87 | 10.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 19.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 127 | 13.4 | 10.210 h |
| December | 15.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 136 | 13.4 | 9.710 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
- Béjaïa in JanuaryAlgeria · 61 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 87 mm rain
- El Eulma in JanuaryAlgeria · 75 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 1.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Sétif in JanuaryAlgeria · 77 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Constantine in JanuaryAlgeria · 91 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Skikda in JanuaryAlgeria · 102 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 9.0°C · 113 mm rain
- El Khroub in JanuaryAlgeria · 104 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Bordj Bou Arreridj in JanuaryAlgeria · 122 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.0°C · 34 mm rain
- El Achir in JanuaryAlgeria · 132 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 34 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 Jijel) is explained once on the Jijel year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.