Sousse weather in August

Regulars describe August in Hammamet as hot and sweaty but manageable so long as the plan is sunbathing and swimming and the room has air conditioning. Our row's 32.2C reads as 36C at 67 percent humidity, with nights at 23.8C that feel like 27C - the heat does not let go after dark. The comparison they reach for is inland: Tunis runs around 34C by mid-afternoon and Tozeur in the desert nearer 39.5C, so the coast is the cool part of the country rather than the hot one. Rain is a formality at 10.4mm across 2.2 days. July is the peak for prices here, and September keeps the warm sea with less of everything else. The record: 12.4 hours of sun, a 15 kph wind, a 27.6C sea and AQI 48.

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.