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Meknes, Fez-Meknes region: climate since 1991, the seven-day forecast, flood risk and inflation as measured by the HCP.

+0.8 °C temperature anomaly, last 12 months

Updated : 6 November 2026

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Temperature, last 12 months+0.8 °Cvs 1991-2020
Rainfall, last 12 months136 %of normal
Current season rainfall53 %43 mm since 1 September 2026
Warming trend+0.51 °Cper decade, p = < 0.001
Inflation, year on year+1.1 %September 2026 · rank 6 of 18
Flood risk over 7 daysNonemax. forecast rain 8 mm

Seven-day forecast

Sat 7 Nov 25° 13° ·
Sun 8 Nov 27° 16° 0.5 mm
Mon 9 Nov 20° 17° 7.5 mm
Tue 10 Nov 23° 16° ·
Wed 11 Nov 23° 15° 0.9 mm
Thu 12 Nov 21° 15° 2.1 mm

Maximum and minimum temperature, daily rainfall. Open-Meteo (best available model). Flood risk →

1 Climate since 1991

Temperature stripes

1991Each stripe is one year: mean temperature anomaly (Meknes) relative to 1991–2020 (blue cooler, red warmer). Source: Open-Meteo (ERA5), Observatory calculations.2025

Annual temperature anomaly vs 1991-2020

1991-2020 annual normal: 17.9 °C. Trend of +0.51 °C per decade (linear regression, 35 years, p = < 0.001).

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 Meknes: May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sept (5 months).

Felt heat

Apparent temperature accounts for humidity, wind and radiation. In summer in Meknes (June to August, 1991-2020), the apparent maximum averages 34.0 °C, against 32.3 °C for the air, a gap of +1.7 °C.

Days felt ≥ 32 °C 106 last 12 months; normal 81.7 a year
Days felt ≥ 41 °C 7 last 12 months; normal 6.6 a year
Trend, days ≥ 32 °C +8.6 days per decade, p = < 0.001

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

once every 10 years43 mmin one day
once every 50 years58 mmin one day
once every 100 years66 mmin one day

2025-26 season: maximum one-day rainfall of 25.7 mm (16 December 2025), rank 24 of 35 seasons. Maximum 30-day total: 216 mm, rank 3.

Method and other return periods →

3 Prices

Latest month: September 2026, index 118.9 (2017 = 100), monthly change of +0.9%. 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 Meknes (120 kWh base, average sensitivity), the weather of the last 12 months amounted to +27 MAD compared with a normal climate, of which +24 MAD in summer.

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Bank credit and climate hazard

Credit16.79 bn DH1.30% of the national total
Deposits32.44 bn DHcredit = 52% of deposits
Bank branches158June 2026
Climate hazard index53 / 100relative, across the 18 cities

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 →

Other cities in the region : Fez · Fez-Meknes

City-specific point. An ERA5 cell is about 25 km wide: values describe the city surroundings, not an in-city station.