Tozeur weather by month
The best time to visit Tozeur is February, March and November — 94/100 in March, 25°C and 2 rainy days. The best season is spring, March to May (83/100 on average).
The worst month is July at 32/100 — sweltering, dry, poor air quality. See July →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Planning the wider trip? Best time to visit Tunisia →
Best season: March to May (83/100 on average) · worst July (32/100)
- Days
- 25°C
- Nights
- 12°C
- Wet days
- 2
- Sun
- 10.6 h
- Humidity
- 41%
- Daylight
- 12 h

Tozeur, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Tozeur 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 Tozeur 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 Tozeur in March
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.
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Traveller notes on Tozeur
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Forum posters describe March as mild on average (highs around 19C) but genuinely unstable day to day - warm before noon, chilly after sunset, with the possibility of 'all four seasons in one day.' Technically still winter by the Tunisian calendar, so posters say to expect either lucky mild, sunny stretches or a run of properly bad weather, with a jumper or light jacket for evenings recommended regardless. For Tozeur specifically, posters consistently name it the best base for Sahara day trips - Chott el Djerid, Chebika, the Star Wars filming locations, and Mides Canyon all get mentioned as reachable outings from town, though posters do flag that spring sandstorms (more of an April risk than March) can occasionally shut down desert excursions entirely.
Tunisia's forum flags September broadly as the sweet spot once the brutal July/August heat has broken along the coast, though inland desert towns like Tozeur run considerably hotter than the beach resorts most of these threads focus on - one poster cited an average August high around 39.5C for the Tozeur desert specifically, with September expected to ease off from there but stay firmly in oven territory. Rain is genuinely rare here even as coastal Tunisia starts seeing occasional showers, since Tozeur's desert climate barely registers measurable rainfall most of the year. Dress for intense sun and very low humidity rather than anything resembling a Mediterranean autumn.
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