Sousse weather by month
The best time to visit Sousse is June to August — 94/100 in June, 32°C and 2 rainy days. The best season is summer, June to August (93/100 on average).
The worst month is December at 73/100 — nice, dry, clean air. See December →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Tunisia →
Best season: June to August (93/100 on average) · worst December (73/100)
- Days
- 32°C
- Nights
- 21°C
- Wet days
- 2
- Sun
- 12.7 h
- Humidity
- 55%
- Daylight
- 15 h
Sousse, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Sousse 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 Sousse through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Sousse in June
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 crowdsEid al-Adha, Resort season, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Sousse
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Where to stay
A traveler's account of Sousse pushes back on the all-inclusive resort approach many visitors default to, arguing that staying inside a resort compound cuts you off from the medina, the traders, and the actual texture of the city, which is what makes Sousse stand out from purely beach-focused destinations. Her advice was to base yourself somewhere that lets you walk into the UNESCO-listed medina easily, where she found traders notably unpushy, letting her browse spices and souvenirs at her own pace rather than being hassled.
Traveller notes on Sousse
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Sousse's own forum doesn't sugarcoat January: it's genuinely changeable winter weather, with a warm window roughly late morning to early afternoon when the sun is out, followed by a sharp drop as soon as it sets - dusk arrives by 5:30pm and temperatures fall quickly after. Posters recommended packing both a light fleece and a proper raincoat for the odd shower, though January is actually one of Sousse's drier months overall - a run of clear, dry days is more typical than a rainy stretch. It's not a beach-weather month, but midday sun on a clear day is still genuinely warm and worth planning around.
Forum posters don't undersell it: July averages around 30C but regularly climbs past 35C, described in escalating terms as hot, really hot, and 'possibly stifling' on the worst days - even locals admit the July-August stretch is a lot to handle. The beaches themselves get consistent praise - sandy, not rocky, with warm, swimmable Mediterranean water - and strong suncream is treated as essential given how intense the sun gets. For an escape from the midday heat, posters point to the Sousse medina's museum as a genuinely cool indoor break between beach sessions.
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