Weather in Tangier in October

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, October is the one. Highs average 22.5 °C, lows 18.3 °C, and rain falls on 9 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

October ranks 6 of 12 in Tangier: past the worst of the year but short of July, which is the month to book if the dates are open.

Rain on 9 days, 2 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: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average October reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 4.2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest October day reached 30.1 °C and the coldest night fell to 12.1 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 59 mm — roughly 78% of the month's rain in one day.

October is moderately variable: 23 mm in the driest year against 181 mm in the wettest, around an average of 76 mm. Roughly two Octobers in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 12.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 81%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How October sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.5 °C cooler than September, with November dropping another 3.7 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 5 days more than September had.

Daylight in October

11.3 hours of daylight, losing 1.1 hours across the month. That is between Tangier's extremes of 14.6 and 9.8 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 21.5 °C in October — comfortable for a proper swim. The sea peaks at 22.9 °C in August and bottoms out at 16.2 °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

Quiet. Few other visitors, cheaper rooms, and a real chance some seasonal operators are shut.

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

October in Tangier versus nearby

If Tangier is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Chefchaouen is close enough to be a coin toss — 3 °C warmer, 1 day more rain. Málaga is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: October works, with July the better month by 17 points if the dates can move. If they cannot, nothing here should stop you booking.

Every month in Tangier

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