Weather in Chefchaouen in October

Prime time. October is about as good as Chefchaouen gets. Highs average 25.5 °C, lows 13.6 °C, and rain falls on 10 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 4 of 12 in Chefchaouen: past the worst of the year but short of May, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 10 days, 4 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. 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: 5 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 34.9 °C and the coldest night fell to 2.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 94 mm — roughly 90% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 26 mm in the driest year against 296 mm in the wettest, around an average of 105 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 4.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 5.4 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 7.2 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip.

Daylight in October

11.4 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Chefchaouen's extremes of 14.5 and 9.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 31.7 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

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

October in Chefchaouen versus nearby

If Chefchaouen is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Tangier is close enough to be a coin toss — 3 °C cooler, 1 day less rain. Fes is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.4 °C warmer, 2 days less rain.

So: October works, with May the better month by 9 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Chefchaouen

See all twelve months in Chefchaouen, or where else to go in October.