Weather & wind
Essaouira in July: weather, wind and sea
July in Essaouira: 9.7 hours of sunshine a day, no rainy days and 20 windy days above 15 knots.
Climate normals · 1991–2020
- Temperature
- 18–22 °C
- Mean wind (daily max)
- 16 kn · N
- Days of wind > 15 kn
- 20
- Sunshine
- 9.7 h/day (1961–1990)
- Rainy days
- 0 · 0 mm
Source: WMO/OMM 1991–2020 (DMN, station 60220) · DWD 1961–1990 · Open-Meteo ERA5/IFS (CC BY 4.0)
Temperatures in July
In July, the mean high is 21.9 °C and the mean low 17.7 °C, a gap of 4.2 °C between afternoon and night. That is 1.3 °C above the year’s average high (20.6 °C). Nights run 2.6 °C warmer than the year’s average low (15.1 °C). The afternoons are warming: 21.4 °C in June, 22.4 °C in August. A light jumper is enough in the evening, more so near the water.
Wind in July
The wind passes 15 knots on about 20 days out of 31, against 12 days in an average month. It is the windiest month of the year. June has 16 days, August 16. It blows mostly from the north, and its daily peak averages 16 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 July in the kitesurf and windsurf season.
Rain and sunshine in July
It practically never rains in July: the normal counts 0 days with 1 mm or more. It is the driest month of the year. June gets 0.5 mm, August 0.8 mm.
The sun shines for 9.7 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 69% of the 14 hours or so the sun is up. It is the sunniest month of the year, level with June.