Climate averages 1991–2020
Tizi Ouzou weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Tizi Ouzou: daytime highs average 14.4°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 111 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rouiba (68 km away). In January its highs average 15.8°C, 1.4°C warmer than Tizi Ouzou, with 79 mm of rain.
Among the 55 cities listed in Algeria, Tizi Ouzou ranks 25th of 55 for the warmest January highs and 53rd of 55 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 55 cities is 13.3°C; Tizi Ouzou is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 14.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 111 mm to 91 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
Tizi Ouzou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.4°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 111 | 12.6 | 10.010 h |
| February | 14.9°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 91 | 11.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.5°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 88 | 9.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.8°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 81 | 9.9 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.6°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 57 | 7.1 | 14.114 h |
| June | 28.6°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 11 | 2.3 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.9°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 2.3 | 0.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 33.5°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 8.5 | 1.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 29.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 39 | 6.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 60 | 8.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 102 | 12.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 15.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 109 | 11.3 | 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
- Rouiba in JanuaryAlgeria · 68 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.2°C · 79 mm rain
- Bab Ezzouar in JanuaryAlgeria · 77 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Algiers in JanuaryAlgeria · 85 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 7.1°C · 81 mm rain
- El Achir in JanuaryAlgeria · 89 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.8°C · 34 mm rain
- Béjaïa in JanuaryAlgeria · 93 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 8.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Bordj Bou Arreridj in JanuaryAlgeria · 96 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Beni Mered in JanuaryAlgeria · 108 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 6.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Blida in JanuaryAlgeria · 112 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 6.4°C · 79 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 Tizi Ouzou) is explained once on the Tizi Ouzou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.