Weather in Marrakesh in February

Prime time. February is about as good as Marrakesh gets. Highs average 21.6 °C, lows 8.3 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 3 of 12 in Marrakesh. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 6 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 February reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 31.5 °C and the coldest night fell to -0.6 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 26 mm — roughly 84% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 115 mm across the twenty years measured — a 115 mm spread around an average of 31 mm. The average is real but almost no individual February looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 7.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 58%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 20.3 °C in January, 21.6 here, 25 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in February

11 hours of daylight, gaining 0.9 hours across the month. That is between Marrakesh's extremes of 14.2 and 10.1 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

With no coast nearby, the year swings a fair way — 33.1 °C between the warmest afternoons and the coldest nights, wider than any coastal city at this latitude would manage.

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.

February in Marrakesh versus nearby

If Marrakesh is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Agadir is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.2 °C warmer, 2 days less rain. Casablanca is close enough to be a coin toss — 2.4 °C cooler, 2 days more rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 2 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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