UV Index 🇲🇦Morocco

Morocco stretches from roughly 21°N in the southern Sahara near the disputed Western Sahara boundary up to about 36°N at Tangier on the Strait of Gibraltar, giving it one of the widest latitude spans in North Africa. The country fronts the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, while the Rif, Middle Atlas, High Atlas, and Anti-Atlas mountain ranges form a continuous spine separating the temperate north from the Saharan south, according to Wikipedia's Geography and Climate of Morocco entries.

Morocco's UV environment is shaped by an unusual combination: the High Atlas peaks at Jebel Toubkal (4,167 m), and at this subtropical latitude the thinner air at altitude allows substantially higher UV irradiance than at sea level, per Wikipedia's Toubkal article. South of the Atlas, the Sahara delivers year-round clear skies and intense solar exposure noted by the WHO as among the highest ambient UV regimes globally, while the cool Canary Current and frequent morning marine stratus along Casablanca, Essaouira, and Agadir moderate coastal UV through cloud cover, as described in Wikipedia's Canary Current and Climate of Morocco entries.

Morocco sits at #125 of 191 in the WHO's global ambient-UV ranking with about 3,568 J/m² of average daily UV, around the 35th percentile worldwide.