* The average winter coastal temperature is about 12 degree centigrade, rising to about 25 degrees centigrade in the summer.

* The humidity is high.

* The average temperatures inland are much higher, ranging from 12 degrees centigrade in winter to 33 degrees centigrade plus in the summer, with peak temperatures rising much higher still

* Rainfall varies from nothing to 70 to 100cm

* Heavy rainfall in April, and snow in the Kabylie mountains in winter, makes some roads impassable or very hazardous
 
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