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
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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, 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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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