Weather in Agadir in January

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, January is the one. Highs average 22.6 °C, lows 11.2 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

January is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is February, and the month at the other end of the year is August.

Rain falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average January reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 29.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 25 mm — roughly 96% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. January rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 93 mm across the twenty years measured — a 93 mm spread around an average of 26 mm. The average is real but almost no individual January looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 8.1 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 59%.

How January sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 23.4 °C in December, 22.6 here, 23.8 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in January

January sits at the dark end of Agadir's year — 10.4 hours of daylight against 14.1 at midsummer, gaining 0.5 hours across the month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 17.9 °C in January — cold — a quick dip rather than a swim, and a wetsuit if you are in for longer. The sea peaks at 21.3 °C in October and bottoms out at 17.2 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

January in Agadir versus nearby

If Agadir is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Marrakesh is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.3 °C cooler, 2 days more rain. Casablanca is the weaker option in January — 4.3 °C cooler, 5 days more rain.

So: January is the answer for Agadir. If it is booked out or priced out, February is the next best thing at 2 points behind, and August is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Agadir

See all twelve months in Agadir, or where else to go in January.