Weather & wind
Essaouira in October: weather, wind and sea
October in Essaouira: 7.6 hours of sunshine a day, 3 rainy days and 8 windy days above 15 knots.
Climate normals · 1991–2020
- Temperature
- 17–22 °C
- Mean wind (daily max)
- 12 kn · N
- Days of wind > 15 kn
- 8
- Sunshine
- 7.6 h/day (1961–1990)
- Rainy days
- 3 · 33.3 mm
Source: WMO/OMM 1991–2020 (DMN, station 60220) · DWD 1961–1990 · Open-Meteo ERA5/IFS (CC BY 4.0)
Temperatures in October
In October, the mean high is 22.2 °C and the mean low 17 °C, a gap of 5.2 °C between afternoon and night. That is 1.6 °C above the year’s average high (20.6 °C). Nights run 1.9 °C warmer than the year’s average low (15.1 °C). The afternoons are cooling: 22.6 °C in September, 20.5 °C in November. A light jumper is enough in the evening, more so near the water.
Wind in October
The wind passes 15 knots on about 8 days out of 31, against 12 days in an average month. September has 11 days, November 9. It blows mostly from the north, and its daily peak averages 12 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. Out of season for kitesurfing: a short stay can miss the wind entirely.
Rain and sunshine in October
Expect about 3 days with 1 mm of rain or more, 33.3 mm in all. That is 11% of the year’s 299.7 mm. September gets 4.3 mm, November 54.5 mm.
The sun shines for 7.6 hours a day on average, from the station’s 1961–1990 records. That is 67% of the 11 hours or so the sun is up. The year averages 8.2 hours a day.