The climate on Djerba is Mediterranean, which means that the climate of the veldt is affected by the Mediterranean Sea. Its general pattern is hot, dry summers and mild to cold winters with irregular rain days. Don’t trust in your travel catalogues that promise non-stop sunshine; from November to March, the weather is not always predictable and you may need a jacket and maybe even an umbrella, so don’t forget some warm clothes. Rain days are really rare, the island has an annual rainfall of 200 mm. Djerba enjoys 324 days of sun a year and a daily average of eight hours of sunshine in winter and eleven in summer. From May to October it is getting very, very hot. The midsummer temperature often exceeds 40°C and never falls below 30°C, the water temperature is about 25°C and the number of rain days is 0-1 a month. Maybe, the heat will even annoy your dreams. Compared to the winters, when the nights might get really cold, it never gets cold in a summer night.