The Weather in Morocco

The Weather in Morocco

Morocco is located in the northwest corner of Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Mauritania. The north of Morocco and the mountains of the interior (the Rif) side have a Mediterranean climate.

Northwestern Morocco is exposed to Atlantic depressions winter rainfall is moderately heavy and reached more than 400 mm above and Casablanca.

South to Agadir on the Atlantic coast is showered by more than 200 mm of rain in winter. The climate becomes progressively drier as you go deeper and the Sahara desert stretches from the coast.

Apart from the Atlantic coast, temperatures are lower than along the Mediterranean coast and the interior of the country, because the Canary Current and clouds and fog rising coastal waters in summer.

Inside the country, the climate is influenced by the size. Therefore snowfall of winter can be very heavy in the Atlas Mountains and winds may cause some days very freezing in winter and spring. At lower levels, the summers can be very hot while average altitude the weather is nice and stable throughout the year.

The weather in the Sahara desert is virtually no rain and very hot, despite some sporadic showers significance in June and September. In the region where the desert reaches the coast, summer temperatures are mitigated because the cold waters of the ocean breezes and persistent daytime Sea.

The annual sunshine levels greater than 8 hours per day of the locations most sought as Marrakech, Ouarzazate and Erfoud Agadir .......