Weather & wind
Essaouira in February: weather, wind and sea
In February, Essaouira averages 19 °C in the afternoon and 12 °C at night. Wind exceeds 15 knots on about 10 days, mostly from the north-east.
Climate normals · 1991–2020
- Temperature
- 12–19 °C
- Mean wind (daily max)
- 13 kn · NE
- Days of wind > 15 kn
- 10
- Sunshine
- 7.3 h/day (1961–1990)
- Rainy days
- 4 · 37.3 mm
Source: WMO/OMM 1991–2020 (DMN, station 60220) · DWD 1961–1990 · Open-Meteo ERA5/IFS (CC BY 4.0)
Temperatures in February
In February, the mean high is 18.7 °C and the mean low 12 °C, a gap of 6.7 °C between afternoon and night. That is 1.9 °C below the year’s average high (20.6 °C). Nights run 3.1 °C cooler than the year’s average low (15.1 °C). The afternoons are warming: 18.4 °C in January, 19.4 °C in March. We suggest a warm jacket for the evening, and asking your riad whether it is heated.
Wind in February
The wind passes 15 knots on about 10 days out of 28, against 12 days in an average month. January has 8 days, March 12. It blows mostly from the north-east, and its daily peak averages 13 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. For kitesurfing it is a shoulder month: leave a few spare days.
Rain and sunshine in February
Expect about 4 days with 1 mm of rain or more, 37.3 mm in all. That is 12% of the year’s 299.7 mm. January gets 48.5 mm, March 38.1 mm.
The sun shines for 7.3 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 66% of the 11 hours or so the sun is up. The year averages 8.2 hours a day.