Climate averages 1991–2020
Rabat weather
in January.
A mild, moderately 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 mild month in Rabat: daytime highs average 16.7°C and nights cool to about 8.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 10 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Salé (5 km away). In January its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Rabat, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 56 cities listed in Morocco, Rabat ranks 30th of 56 for the warmest January highs and joint 41st of 56 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 56 cities is 16.7°C; Rabat is level with that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 17.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 59 mm to 48 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
Rabat climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 59 | 7.3 | 10.210 h |
| February | 17.7°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 48 | 6.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 20.0°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 47 | 6.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 37 | 6.3 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 23 | 4.7 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.7°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 5.0 | 1.1 | 14.414 h |
| July | 29.0°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 1.2 | 0.3 | 14.214 h |
| August | 29.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 1.3 | 0.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 27.4°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 15 | 2.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.7°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 45 | 6.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 20.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 69 | 7.7 | 10.410 h |
| December | 17.9°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 58 | 7.4 | 9.910 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
- Salé in JanuaryMorocco · 5 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 10.0°C · 59 mm rain
- Salé Al Jadida in JanuaryMorocco · 9 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 8.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Temara in JanuaryMorocco · 12 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 8.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Kenitra in JanuaryMorocco · 36 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 10.2°C · 78 mm rain
- Tiflet in JanuaryMorocco · 50 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 5.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Mohammedia in JanuaryMorocco · 63 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 9.7°C · 57 mm rain
- Khemisset in JanuaryMorocco · 74 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 4.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Lahraouyine in JanuaryMorocco · 83 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 8.0°C · 42 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 Rabat) is explained once on the Rabat year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Salé and Salé Al Jadida lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.