Tunisia · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
El Maknassi.

April leads for comfortable weather in El Maknassi: typically 25.6°C by day, 11.5°C at night, with 23 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril
Typical high25.6°C
Typical low11.5°C
Rain in April23 mm
Comfort

April

April · October · November

88climate match
Beach

September

September · May · October

86climate match
Outdoors

November

November · March · February

95climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 38 against April’s 88days average 38.4°C, 14° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan
5315.8° / 4°
Feb
6117.6° / 5°
Mar
7821.2° / 8°
Apr
8825.6° / 11.5°
May
7730.4° / 15.9°
Jun
5335.3° / 20.2°
Jul
3838.4° / 22.9°
Aug
3938° / 23.3°
Sep
6132.9° / 20.2°
Oct
8627.9° / 15.5°
Nov
8121.3° / 9.4°
Dec
5916.7° / 5.4°
Monthly climate evidence for El Maknassi — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January15.8°C4°C17 mm2.310 h 0453Strong coverage
February17.6°C5°C13 mm2.110 h 5361Strong coverage
March21.2°C8°C21 mm2.711 h 5278Strong coverage
April25.6°C11.5°C23 mm3.113 h 0088Strong coverage
May30.4°C15.9°C15 mm1.913 h 5777Strong coverage
June35.3°C20.2°C6 mm0.814 h 2853Strong coverage
July38.4°C22.9°C11 mm0.614 h 1638Strong coverage
August38°C23.3°C4 mm113 h 2739Strong coverage
September32.9°C20.2°C34 mm2.712 h 2161Strong coverage
October27.9°C15.5°C18 mm2.711 h 1586Strong coverage
November21.3°C9.4°C18 mm2.110 h 1881Strong coverage
December16.7°C5.4°C17 mm2.69 h 5159Strong coverage

What has changed

El Maknassi runs +1.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan
+1.6
Feb
+0.9
Mar
+1.8
Apr
+2.3
May
+1.9
Jun
+2.3
Jul
+2.3
Aug
+1.8
Sep
+2.1
Oct
+2.2
Nov
+2.2
Dec
+1.8
April daytime highs, 20112025. Last recorded: 25.7°C.
Records at GAFSA, 1965–2025
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January26.8°C26 Jan 2024-7.6°C2 Jan 2008130 mm11 Jan 2003230 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 200755
February32.0°C28 Feb 2010-2.1°C3 Feb 201076 mm2 Feb 199480 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 200855
March35.7°C25 Mar 2001-0.1°C28 Mar 197876 mm12 Mar 199499 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 198855
April38.0°C29 Apr 20031.1°C19 Apr 200976 mm12 Apr 1994112 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 199355
May42.8°C27 May 20167.2°C6 May 1987107 mm6 May 1996127 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 201355
June46.1°C14 Jun 199711.0°C4 Jun 200070 mm5 Jun 199570 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 199155
July46.5°C2 Jul 202213.8°C12 Jul 198476 mm29 Jul 199590 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 202455
August46.1°C8 Aug 202115.0°C15 Aug 197435 mm7 Aug 198635 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 200454
September43.5°C1 Sep 20008.0°C27 Sep 1980203 mm18 Sep 1992260 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 198353
October39.5°C2 Oct 20035.0°C26 Oct 197697 mm23 Oct 1982106 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 198653
November31.2°C12 Nov 2012-2.0°C28 Nov 200670 mm21 Nov 2002106 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 199453
December25.3°C1 Dec 2010-9.7°C17 Dec 200876 mm12 Dec 199379 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 201554
Typical days per month at GAFSA, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)
January002<1
February<10<1<1
March5<10<1
April1440<1
May23140<1
June25230<1
July26260<1
August26260<1
September25200<1
October2170<1
November4<1<1<1
December<10<1<1
How often, not how much — every day in GAFSA’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January8%7%1%3%13.9–17.4°C
February23%7%<1%2%15.4–20.0°C
March56%9%1%7%18.7–23.5°C
April85%10%2%4%22.2–27.0°C
May92%7%1%3%27.2–32.5°C
June97%3%<1%<1%33.1–37.6°C
July99%2%<1%<1%36.1–40.2°C
August96%4%<1%1%35.1–39.0°C
September92%8%3%4%31.1–34.5°C
October91%9%2%4%24.9–30.2°C
November65%7%2%4%18.7–22.8°C
December12%9%1%3%14.1–18.4°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1966Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 42-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1976.2019

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 2473513
NOAA station
TSM00060745 · GAFSA
Station distance
74.7 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
25 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 34.60°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit
Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from GAFSA is what differs

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