Climate averages 1991–2020
Sétif weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Sétif: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 10th 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 El Eulma (25 km away). In January its highs average 10.6°C, 1.0°C warmer than Sétif, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, Sétif ranks 53rd of 55 for the warmest January highs and 41st of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; Sétif is 3.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 10.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 58 mm to 53 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
Sétif climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.6°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 58 | 9.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 10.5°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 53 | 9.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.8°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 61 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.0°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 66 | 10.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.8°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 57 | 9.4 | 14.114 h |
| June | 27.1°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 24 | 6.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.3°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 11 | 4.3 | 14.414 h |
| August | 30.7°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 24 | 7.1 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.2°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 47 | 9.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.3°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 44 | 8.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.9°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 46 | 8.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 10.3°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 51 | 8.4 | 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
- El Eulma in JanuaryAlgeria · 25 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 1.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Bordj Bou Arreridj in JanuaryAlgeria · 60 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Béjaïa in JanuaryAlgeria · 69 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 87 mm rain
- El Achir in JanuaryAlgeria · 72 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 34 mm rain
- Jijel in JanuaryAlgeria · 77 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 8.4°C · 128 mm rain
- Barika in JanuaryAlgeria · 89 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 2.3°C · 22 mm rain
- M'Sila in JanuaryAlgeria · 95 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.3°C · 23 mm rain
- Batna in JanuaryAlgeria · 98 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 0.9°C · 38 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 Sétif) is explained once on the Sétif year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.