Tangier weather by month
The best time to visit Tangier is April to June — 94/100 in May, 25°C and 4 rainy days. The best season is spring, March to May (90/100 on average).
The worst month is August at 81/100 — hot, dry, clean air. See August →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
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Best season: March to May (90/100 on average) · worst August (81/100)
- Days
- 25°C
- Nights
- 16°C
- Wet days
- 4
- Sun
- 12.4 h
- Humidity
- 72%
- Daylight
- 14 h
Tangier, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Tangier 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 Tangier 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
- May
- Eid al-Adha (Eid Kbir)1 May – 5 Jun (usually)Holiday
- The eastern wind1 May – 30 Sep (usually)Season
- June
- The summer crossing15 Jun – 15 Sep (usually)Season
- July
- Throne Day29–31 JulHoliday
- September
- Tanjazz15–25 Sep (usually)Festival
- November
- Atlantic winter storms15 Nov – 15 Mar (usually)Season
Crowds in Tangier 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 crowdsEid al-Adha (Eid Kbir), Fourth interim break (May) in Morocco, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Good to know before you go to Tangier
Real experiences from travellers' own write-ups, quoted with a link to the original.
Safety
A traveler taking the roughly hour-long ferry between Tarifa, Spain and Tangier describes disembarking as generally smooth - passports rechecked before boarding a shuttle to the terminal, and only a couple of taxi drivers offering rides in a non-aggressive way at the port itself. She flags a real distinction worth knowing before arrival: ferries from Tarifa land at Tangier city center, while ferries from Algeciras land at Tangier Med, a port genuinely far from downtown, so picking the wrong departure port for your plans creates an unplanned, expensive taxi transfer. Other travelers note that visible signs of wealth (flashy luggage, obvious camera gear) can draw more hustler attention once outside the port, and that refusing their offers politely but firmly tends to work better than getting visibly annoyed, which can escalate the interaction rather than end it. Posters generally recommend booking the Tarifa route specifically for a city-center arrival, and treating the port hustle as manageable background noise rather than a serious safety concern.
Traveller notes on Tangier
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
May is the forum's recommended month for northern Morocco, and Tangier is specifically what they suggest when someone wants to dodge the heat building inland — Fes can already be hot by late May while the north stays milder. Tangier itself runs near 24°C by day and 15 overnight, with rain down to under four days and the countryside still green with spring flowers. Two honest notes: May can still turn rainy, and one traveller's late-May 2025 report describes an early heatwave running hot and dry for a fortnight. The sea is still cool, around 18°C.
Forum posters describe northern Morocco, Tangier included, as starting to turn cold and possibly rainy by November, with posters flagging November as historically the wettest month of the year for the country overall. Posters are direct that Morocco's size and geographic diversity mean November weather varies enormously by region - the same month can bring nice sunny days, snow storms, and stretches of solid rain depending on exactly where you are. Posters consistently recommend the deep south, around Marrakech and beyond, for the best chance of warmth in November, implicitly framing Tangier and the north as the cooler, wetter end of that range. Posters generally recommend planning for cooler, rain-capable conditions and packing accordingly for a November visit to Tangier specifically.
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