Houari Boumediene Airport

DAAG · Algiers, Algeria

Climate Houari Boumediene Airport 2021-2025

Climate and trends: average temperature, flight conditions, precipitation, wind speed and direction.

Calculated from historical METAR data of Houari Boumediene Airport (DAAG) between 2021 and 2025.

VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 88.0 95 83 92 85 96
February 85.5 91 86 87 94 77
March 89.6 98 90 96 77 88
April 89.1 96 99 82 88
May 91.6 94 94 92 89
June 92.4 99 93 98 91
July 89.1 93 96 89 92
August 94.9 97 98 100 89
September 92.9 98 94 100 85
October 95.2 96 92 93 98
November 90.6 82 96 93 87
December 85.4 92 88 93 83
Average 90.9 94.9 92.8 93.8 91.1 88.6

VFR conditions during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the VFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 8 km or more and a ceiling of 3,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Marginal VFR conditions (%)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 95.0 99 95 96 89 99
February 93.8 97 93 95 97 89
March 96.8 100 95 100 94 96
April 97.4 99 100 97 98
May 97.0 99 98 97 97
June 97.9 100 98 100 97
July 97.6 97 100 97 97
August 99.1 100 100 100 98
September 98.3 100 97 100 95
October 98.6 98 97 98 100
November 97.0 92 99 98 96
December 94.2 96 94 96 93
Average 97.2 98.7 97.3 97.8 96.9 96.2

Marginal VFR conditions or better during daylight period

Percentage of observations where the MVFR minimums for ceiling and visibility are met: visibility of 5 km or more and a ceiling of 1,000 ft or more. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Maximum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 17.0 18.3 19.1 16.5 16.1 17.5
February 18.4 18.3 18.6 17.0 18.1 20.8
March 20.3 20.6 22.5 20.8 19.0 19.6
April 21.6 22.1 23.5 19.8 21.3
May 25.1 25.8 23.3 26.6 25.1
June 29.1 29.1 28.5 30.3 28.8
July 32.9 32.3 35.3 31.8 32.1
August 33.1 33.5 32.7 33.2 32.5
September 30.1 29.5 30.3 30.6 30.8
October 26.9 27.6 28.1 30.0 25.6
November 21.5 23.3 22.6 22.8 18.3
December 18.3 17.1 18.6 21.0 18.0
Average 24.0 19.1 25.1 24.8 25.1 24.2

Average highest temperature per day

The maximum temperature is typically observed some hours after noon.

Minimum temperatures (°C)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 5.9 7.7 7.7 6.0 3.5 7.2
February 6.5 6.5 8.5 6.0 5.5 8.5
March 8.9 10.5 9.4 8.3 10.6 7.7
April 10.3 10.5 9.0 10.8 10.9
May 13.2 13.4 13.9 13.8 14.0
June 17.4 18.1 18.0 18.8 18.3
July 21.2 21.5 24.3 21.5 21.3
August 21.6 22.6 20.6 21.1 22.5
September 19.2 19.1 19.8 21.0 21.1
October 14.6 17.3 16.5 16.6 13.8
November 11.1 14.3 10.9 11.8 11.8
December 7.4 6.0 7.9 11.4 6.9
Average 12.6 8.3 14.1 13.5 13.9 13.7

Average lowest temperature per day

The minimum temperature is typically observed just before sunrise.

Precipitation (%)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 5.8 8 4 8 3 5
February 4.5 5 10 8 2 4
March 5.0 3 3 3 9 2
April 4.4 1 0 10 4
May 2.5 1 8 2 1
June 0.6 0 3 1 1
July 0.0 0 0 0 0
August 0.2 0 1 1 1
September 0.9 1 2 1 1
October 1.9 2 1 0 0
November 7.6 2 3 4 19
December 5.0 5 6 4 3
Average 3.1 4.7 2.0 3.2 2.8 2.9

Precipitation during daylight period

Percentage of observations with observed rain, drizzle, snow or hail. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Wind speed (knots)

Month Average 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 6.6 7 6 8 6 8
February 7.2 6 9 7 7 8
March 8.1 8 8 7 8 7
April 8.2 8 9 9 8
May 7.8 8 9 7 8
June 8.0 9 7 7 9
July 7.6 8 7 8 7
August 7.9 8 8 8 7
September 7.6 8 7 8 8
October 6.7 7 8 5 7
November 7.4 6 8 8 9
December 6.4 6 6 7 7
Average 7.5 7.1 7.8 7.5 7.3 7.8

Average wind speed

Excluding wind gusts. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.

Prevailing wind direction

Month 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
January 275° 279° 257° 320° 290°
February 312° 284° 341° 013° 305°
March 288° 289° 300° 200° 045°
April 009° 013° 326° 018°
May 002° 012° 001° 010°
June 029° 026° 019° 020°
July 028° 020° 028° 015°
August 029° 029° 032° 012°
September 019° 029° 340° 024°
October 304° 335° 351° 020°
November 277° 293° 274° 259°
December 286° 285° 243° 276°

Prevailing wind direction

Average wind direction, weighed by wind speed. Only observations between sunrise and sunset are taken into account.