Chefchaouen (Blue City) weather by month

The best time to visit Chefchaouen (Blue City) is May, June and September — 93/100 in May, 24°C and 7 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (87/100 on average).

The worst month is December at 73/100 — nice, rainy, clean air. See December →

Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis

Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Morocco →

Chefchaouen🇲🇦 Morocco · Maghreb · City93
  1. 74Jan
  2. 77Feb
  3. 73Mar
  4. 84Apr
  5. 93May
  6. 92Jun
  7. 85Jul
  8. 83Aug
  9. 90Sep
  10. 89Oct
  11. 80Nov
  12. 73Dec

Best season: June to August (87/100 on average) · worst December (73/100)

Days
24°C
Nights
9°C
Wet days
7
Sun
12.3 h
Humidity
72%
Daylight
14 h
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Photo: Christophe RASCLE · Pexels

Chefchaouen, month by month

Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Chefchaouen is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.

MonthScoreTierHighRainSunCrowdsOn
Jan74B15°C8 d8 hPeak3
Feb77B17°C8 d9 hBusy2
Mar73B18°C13 d10 hPeak2
Apr84A20°C10 d11 hBusy2
May93S24°C7 d12 hPeak3
Jun92S29°C3 d13 hPeak3
Jul85A34°C0 d13 hPeak2
Aug83A34°C2 d12 hPeak2
Sep90S29°C5 d11 hPeak1
Oct89A25°C7 d10 hPeak1
Nov80A20°C9 d9 hShoulder1
Dec73B17°C9 d8 hBusy2

What's on in Chefchaouen through the year

Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.

January
  • Ramadan25 Jan – 25 Mar (usually)Holiday
March
  • The coach hours15 Mar – 31 Oct (usually)Season
April
  • Rif walking season1 Apr – 15 Jun (usually)Season
May
  • Eid al-Adha (Eid Kbir)1 May – 5 Jun (usually)Holiday
July
  • Moroccan summer15 Jul – 31 AugSeason
November
  • Olive harvest in the Rif1 Nov – 15 Jan (usually)Nature
December
  • The wet, cold months1 Dec – 28 Feb (usually)Season

Everything on in Chefchaouen through the year →

Crowds in Chefchaouen in May

How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.

Peak crowdsThe coach hours, Eid al-Adha (Eid Kbir), Fourth interim break (May) in Morocco(estimated)

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Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet

Good to know before you go to Chefchaouen

Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.

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We stayed two nights instead of doing the usual day-trip-from-Fes rush, and that alone changed the whole visit. Walking the medina around 7:30am, before breakfast, meant we had the blue-washed lanes mostly to ourselves except for cats and a few locals opening shops, which is when the light does the most for the color. Every evening we found a rooftop terrace looking over the medina and the Rif Mountains for mint tea, easily the calmest half hour of the day. We got a couple of offers for unsolicited directions that turned into requests for money, so we just kept a polite no and moved on.
Imane K. · Read the original ↗

Traveller notes on Chefchaouen

What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.

May is the forum's month for northern Morocco — longer days, greenery, spring flowers, and unlikely to be either too hot or too cold. Chefchaouen adds its own variable: at 750m the mountain weather changes fast, and posters describe all four seasons thrown at you in a single day. The record puts May at 24°C by day and 14 overnight, warmer than the 19–21°C some visitors report, while one 2025 trip report describes an early heatwave running hot and dry. Spring rains more here than December does, though at under six wet days it is hardly a washout. Layers — and May rather than late March.
Tripadvisor community · May · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗
Forum posters describe November in Chefchaouen as cooler and very possibly rainy, with more recent accounts specifically warning it can turn cold, rainy and genuinely miserable by late in the month. Posters attribute this partly to the town's setting - not just in Morocco's colder north but also at roughly 700-750m elevation, surrounded by mountains whose weather runs even less predictable than the surrounding lowlands. Posters consistently recommend layered clothing with a wind- and waterproof shell as essential for a November visit. Posters generally rate November as a weaker pick for Chefchaouen weather-wise, with spring (April-May) or September consistently recommended instead as better alternatives.
Tripadvisor community · November · 1 month ago · Read more on Tripadvisor ↗

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