Climate averages 1991–2020

Sougueur weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 10.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 1.8°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 40 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sougueur · average highYear overview

January is a cool month in Sougueur: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 04 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tiaret (26 km away). In January its highs average 10.4°C, about as warm as Sougueur, with 51 mm of rain.

Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, Sougueur ranks 48th of 55 for the warmest January highs and 27th of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; Sougueur is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 11.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 40 mm to 39 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sougueur climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sougueur, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 10.3°C1.8°C1.8°C408.310.110 h
February 11.6°C2.2°C2.2°C398.110.911 h
March 15.0°C4.6°C4.6°C478.211.912 h
April 18.1°C6.8°C6.8°C488.313.113 h
May 23.0°C10.7°C10.7°C407.314.014 h
June 28.8°C15.4°C15.4°C163.914.514 h
July 33.3°C19.1°C19.1°C9.03.214.314 h
August 32.6°C19.2°C19.2°C154.713.513 h
September 26.8°C15.3°C15.3°C337.112.412 h
October 21.4°C11.1°C11.1°C366.211.311 h
November 14.5°C6.1°C6.1°C397.210.410 h
December 11.1°C3.2°C3.2°C347.19.810 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

Distance from Sougueur

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sougueur) is explained once on the Sougueur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.