Laayoune
Laayoune, Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region: climate since 1991, the seven-day forecast, flood risk and inflation as measured by the HCP.
Updated : 6 November 2026
At a glance PDF sheet
Seven-day forecast
Maximum and minimum temperature, daily rainfall. Open-Meteo (best available model). Flood risk →
1 Climate since 1991
Temperature stripes
Annual temperature anomaly vs 1991-2020
1991-2020 annual normal: 19.9 °C. Trend of +0.23 °C per decade (linear regression, 35 years, p = 0.003).
Annual rainfall (mm)
Hot days (35 °C or more)
Climate diagram (1991-2020 normals)
A month is dry when its rainfall (mm) is below twice its mean temperature (°C), following Gaussen's rule. Dry months in Laayoune: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec (12 months).
Felt heat
Apparent temperature accounts for humidity, wind and radiation. In summer in Laayoune (June to August, 1991-2020), the apparent maximum averages 26.0 °C, against 26.5 °C for the air, a gap of −0.5 °C.
Daily maximum apparent temperature (Steadman formula, computed by Open-Meteo from ERA5). The 32 and 41 °C thresholds follow, as a guide only, the "extreme caution" and "danger" categories of the NOAA heat index; they are not official warning thresholds in Morocco.
The last 36 months
2 Extreme rainfall
2025-26 season: maximum one-day rainfall of 16.7 mm (2 October 2025), rank 10 of 35 seasons. Maximum 30-day total: 18 mm, rank 17.
3 Prices
Latest month: September 2026, index 126.5 (2017 = 100), monthly change of +2.8%. Source: HCP monthly notes.
The index tracks how prices have changed in each city since 2017, not their level: it cannot be used to compare the cost of living between cities.
Electricity: weather effect on the bill
For a typical household in Laayoune (120 kWh base, average sensitivity), the weather of the last 12 months amounted to +14 MAD compared with a normal climate, of which +15 MAD in summer.
Bank credit and climate hazard
Bank Al-Maghrib, municipality only · Credit is booked in the locality of the granting branch, not necessarily where the financed activity is. All cities and regions →
Same grid point as the region (its capital). An ERA5 cell is about 25 km wide: values describe the city surroundings, not an in-city station.