Weather & wind
Essaouira in August: weather, wind and sea
In August, Essaouira averages 22 °C in the afternoon and 18 °C at night. Wind exceeds 15 knots on about 16 days, mostly from the north.
Climate normals · 1991–2020
- Temperature
- 18–22 °C
- Mean wind (daily max)
- 15 kn · N
- Days of wind > 15 kn
- 16
- Sunshine
- 9.4 h/day (1961–1990)
- Rainy days
- 0 · 0.8 mm
Source: WMO/OMM 1991–2020 (DMN, station 60220) · DWD 1961–1990 · Open-Meteo ERA5/IFS (CC BY 4.0)
Temperatures in August
In August, the mean high is 22.4 °C and the mean low 18.1 °C, a gap of 4.3 °C between afternoon and night. That is 1.8 °C above the year’s average high (20.6 °C). These are the mildest nights of the year. The afternoons are warming: 21.9 °C in July, 22.6 °C in September. A light jumper is enough in the evening, more so near the water.
Wind in August
The wind passes 15 knots on about 16 days out of 31, against 12 days in an average month. Only July has more. July has 20 days, September 11. It blows mostly from the north, and its daily peak averages 15 knots. These figures are our own count over thirty years of modelled weather data (the ERA5 reanalysis, then the ECMWF’s IFS model from 2017), 1991 to 2020. We count August in the kitesurf and windsurf season.
Rain and sunshine in August
Rain is rare: the normal counts 0.2 days with 1 mm or more on average, 0.8 mm over the month. July gets 0 mm, September 4.3 mm.
The sun shines for 9.4 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 71% of the 13 hours or so the sun is up. The year averages 8.2 hours a day.