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Weather in Taghazout and Tamraght

The weather right now at our two houses, the next 24 hours and the week ahead, the sea and the wetsuit it calls for, and what each month brings. Every figure carries its source.

Right now

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The Moonlight rooftop table, facing the ocean over Taghazout

MoonlightTaghazout

Wind
UV, clear sky
Rain, next hour
Humidity
Sunrise
Sunset

The Blue Whale terrace, looking over Tamraght to the ocean

Blue WhaleTamraght

Wind
UV, clear sky
Rain, next hour
Humidity
Sunrise
Sunset

The sea

Satellite reading

Wetsuit

The sea and the wetsuit

THE FORECAST

The next 24 hours, then the week

Hour by hour at Moonlight, Taghazout

Day by day at Moonlight, Taghazout

MET Norway’s forecast for each house’s own coordinates: every hour for the first two and a half days, then every six hours. Temperatures in °C, rounded to the degree; the shaded hours are the night, from sunset to sunrise. Rain in mm over the hour, or added up over the day. Wind in km/h (MET Norway gives m/s): the arrow points where the wind blows, the letters say where it comes from; for the week, the strongest wind of the day’s forecast steps. UV: the clear-sky index, which clouds lower; for the week, the day’s highest, given for the first two and a half days only. MET Norway forecasts no gusts and no chance of rain for Morocco, so we show none. Every time is local time (Morocco, GMT).

The live wind map, on Windy

THE SEA

The water, and what to wear in it

The reading is the surface of the sea in the 5 km satellite cell off Taghazout, once a day; the date is the day it describes. When strong north winds blow in summer, colder water rising from below can cool the sea by 2 to 3 °C for a few days.

The waves today: the surf report

The wetsuit, by the temperature of the water

20 °C and over
2 mm spring suit or long-sleeve shorty
July to October; a 3/2 when the wind is up or the water turns cold for a few days. Boardshorts alone are almost never enough here.
18.5 to 20 °C
3/2 full suit
May, June and November. On a cold winter morning, take the 4/3.
16 to 18.5 °C
4/3 full suit
Or a 3/2 with boots if you run warm. The winter suit, December to April.
Under 16 °C
4/3 with boots
Rare here: the sea seldom drops under 16 °C, even in February.

On a cold morning, under 13 °C in the air at dawn, take one suit warmer: a 4/3 instead of a 3/2.

Wetsuits: the Rip Curl and Quiksilver thickness charts, read for this coast.

THE CLIMATE

Month by month

Averages, not a forecast: what an ordinary month brings to Taghazout and Tamraght. The current month is marked.

The climate of Taghazout and Tamraght, month by month: averages
Month	Air, low to high°C	Sea°C	Rainmm	Rainy days1 mm or more	Sunshinehours a day	UVdaily high	Sunrise · sunsetthe 15th, local time	Wetsuit
January	10 to 20.5 °C	18	32	2.8	7.4	4	07:36 and 17:59	4/3
February	11.5 to 21.5 °C	17	29	2.7	7.6	5	07:19 and 18:26	4/3
March	13 to 22.5 °C	17	31	3.2	8.2	7	06:49 and 18:46	4/3
April	14 to 22.5 °C	18	14	1.7	8.9	8	06:11 and 19:06	4/3
May	16 to 23.5 °C	18.5	6	0.8	9.4	9	05:44 and 19:26	3/2
June	17.5 to 25 °C	19	1	0.2	8.7	10	05:36 and 19:42	3/2
July	19 to 26 °C	20	0	0.1	7.9	10	05:46 and 19:42	2 mm
August	19 to 26.5 °C	20.5	3	0.3	8.1	9	06:05 and 19:21	2 mm
September	18.5 to 25.5 °C	20.5	4	0.5	7.5	8	06:23 and 18:44	2 mm
October	17 to 25 °C	20.5	21	1.9	7.7	6	06:40 and 18:07	2 mm
November	14 to 23 °C	19	42	3	7.3	4	07:04 and 17:41	3/2
December	11.5 to 21.5 °C	18.5	49	3.6	7.4	3	07:28 and 17:39	4/3
The year	15.1 to 23.6 °C	18.9	232	20.8	8.0	–	–	–

Air: the average low of the night and high of the day. Rainy days: days with at least 1 mm. Sunshine: hours of bright sun a day, 2,924 hours in the year. UV: the average daily high. Sunrise and sunset at Moonlight on the 15th of the month, local time; Tamraght is within a minute. The year: the means of the months, the rain and the rainy days added up.

The four seasons

December to February

Winter

Sunny days of 20.5 to 21.5 °C and nights of 10 to 11.5 °C, with about three rainy days a month. The prime surf season: long north-west swells, offshore mornings, the points working most days.

PackA warm layer for the evenings, a windproof jacket, a light rain shell, sunglasses, a 4/3.

March to May

Spring

Highs of 22.5 to 23.5 °C, windy afternoons and a few hot chergui days, most of them in March. The surf is still good in March and April and softens in May: surf the mornings.

PackLayers, a windbreaker, SPF 50 (UV 7 to 9), a 4/3 until April, a 3/2 in May.

June to August

Summer

Highs of 25 to 26.5 °C, almost no rain, grey sea-mist mornings that usually clear by late morning, breezy afternoons. Small, friendly beach-break waves: the easiest months to start.

PackLight clothes and a sweatshirt for the mornings and evenings, a hat, SPF 50 (UV 9 to 10), a 3/2 in June, a spring suit in July and August.

September to November

Autumn

The warmest sea of the year, 20.5 °C from August to October, the most chergui days in October, and the season’s first north-west swells. The rain comes back in October and November.

PackSummer clothes and a light sweater, a rain shell in November, a spring suit in September and October, a 3/2 in November.

What the averages hide

Chergui and calima: the hot days

The chergui is a hot, dry wind from the Sahara that comes down off the Atlas. Here it blows offshore, so the waves are clean while the air heats up. The Agadir station counts about 30 days a year over 30 °C, nearly all of them chergui days: 5.3 a month in October, 4.3 in August, 3.9 in March, almost none in December and January. Desert dust, the calima, hazes the sky most in July and August, on 8 to 10 days a month in 2023–2025; near the ground it is felt most from February to April.

The morning sea mist

From July to September, about one morning in three starts grey: low cloud and mist come in from the sea at night and usually burn off by late morning. Mist or fog shows on 2.5 to 6 mornings a month all year, most often from July to October, then in February and March. These counts come from Agadir airport, 20 km inland; the coast itself probably sees a few more grey mornings.

SOURCES

Where the figures come from

Waves: NOAA WaveWatch III via PacIOOS. Weather and wind: Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Sea temperature: NOAA Coral Reef Watch. Tide and sun: computed for Taghazout.

Live: Live weather and wind: Data from MET Norway (Locationforecast 2.0, licence CC BY 4.0), for each house’s own coordinates. Sea temperature: NOAA Coral Reef Watch, 5 km daily satellite reading, through the PacIOOS ERDDAP server. Sunrise and sunset: computed in the page with NOAA’s solar equations.
Climate: Climate: NOAA/WMO 1991–2020 normals for Agadir-Inezgane (air, rain), averaged with WeatherSpark for Taghazout and, for the nights, NOAA Essaouira and ERA5; sea: NOAA OISST v2.1 2016–2025 and seatemperature.org; sunshine: Meteostat normals 1981–2010; UV: Copernicus CAMS 2023–2025; mist and hot days: Agadir airport reports 2010–2025 (Iowa Environmental Mesonet) and NOAA 1991–2020; desert dust: Copernicus CAMS 2023–2025.
Wetsuits: Wetsuits: the Rip Curl and Quiksilver thickness charts, read for this coast.
Time: Times are Morocco’s clock, GMT (UTC+0): the country has kept it all year since 20 September 2026.

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