Climate averages 1991–2020
Sousse weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Sousse: daytime highs average 16.7°C and nights cool to about 7.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 01 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Msaken (12 km away). In January its highs average 16.7°C, about as warm as Sousse, with 28 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Tunisia, Sousse ranks joint 1st of 22 for the warmest January highs and joint 13th of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 15.4°C; Sousse is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 33 mm to 27 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
Sousse 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°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 33 | 5.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 17.4°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 27 | 5.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 20.3°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 38 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.2°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 24 | 5.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 27.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 15 | 3.1 | 14.014 h |
| June | 31.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 6.3 | 1.5 | 14.515 h |
| July | 34.8°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 1.4 | 0.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 35.0°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 9.4 | 1.4 | 13.514 h |
| September | 30.7°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 47 | 5.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 26.5°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 45 | 6.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 21.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 33 | 5.2 | 10.310 h |
| December | 17.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 33 | 5.5 | 9.810 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
- Msaken in JanuaryTunisia · 12 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 6.9°C · 28 mm rain
- Monastir in JanuaryTunisia · 18 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Kairouan in JanuaryTunisia · 51 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 27 mm rain
- Hammamet in JanuaryTunisia · 64 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 10.0°C · 39 mm rain
- Nabeul in JanuaryTunisia · 71 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 10.5°C · 44 mm rain
- El Mourouj in JanuaryTunisia · 106 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.5°C · 47 mm rain
- Sīdī Ḥusayn in JanuaryTunisia · 113 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 8.1°C · 37 mm rain
- Sakiet ed Daier in JanuaryTunisia · 116 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 20 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 Sousse) is explained once on the Sousse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Monastir lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.