Geography
Districts of Algiers
Notre Dame d'Afrique, built by European settlers in 1872
- The Casbah (of Al Qasbah , “the Citadel”), Ier District of Algiers: called Al-Djazaïr Al Mahroussa
(“Well Kept Algiers”), it is founded on the ruins of old Icosium. It is
a small city which, built on a hill, goes down towards the sea, divided
in two: the High city and the Low city. One finds there masonries and
mosques of the 17th century; Ketchaoua mosque (built in 1794 by the Dey
Baba Hassan) flanked by two minarets, mosque el Djedid (built in 1660,
at the time of Turkish regency) with its large finished ovoid cupola
points some and its four coupolettes, mosque El Kébir (oldest of the
mosques, it was built by almoravide Youssef Ibn Tachfin
and rebuilt later in 1794), mosque Ali Betchnin (Raïs, 1623), Dar
Aziza, palate of Jénina. In the Kasbah, there are also labyrinths of
lanes and houses that are very picturesque; and if one gets lost there,
it is enough to go down again towards the sea to reposition oneself. - Bab El Oued : Literally the River's Gate,
the popular district which extends from the Casbah beyond "the gate of
the river". It is the capital's darling and best liked borough. Famous
for its square with “the three clocks” and for its “market Triplet”, it
is also a district of workshops and manufacturing plants. - Edge of sea : from 1840, the architects Pierre-August Guiauchain and Charles Frédéric Chassériau
designed new buildings apart from the Kasbah, town hall, law courts,
buildings, theatre, palace of the Governor, casino ... to form an
elegant walk bordered by arcades which is the boulevard today Che Guevara (ex-boulevard of Republic). - Kouba (will daira of Hussein-dey):
Kouba is an old village which was absorbed by the expansion of the town
of Algiers. Of village, Kouba quickly developed under the French
colonial era then continued growing due to formidable demographic
expansion that Algiers knew after the independence of Algeria in 1962.
It is today a district of Algiers which is largely made up of houses,
villas and buildings not exceeding five stories. - El Harrach, a suburb of Algiers, is located about 10 kilometres (6 miles) to the east of the city.
- The communes of Hydra, Ben Aknoun, El-Biar and Bouzareah
form what the inhabitants of Algiers call the heights of Algiers. These
communes shelter the majority of the foreign embassies of Algiers, of
many ministries and university centers, which makes it one of the
administrative and policy centers of the country. - The street Didouche Mourade is located in the 3rd district Of Algiers. It extends from the Grande Post office to the Heights of Algiers. It crosses in particular the place Audin , the Faculty of Algiers , The Crowned Heart and the park of Galland . It is bordered by smart stores and restaurants along most of its length. It is regarded as the heart of the capital.
Astronaut view of Algiers
Climate
Algiers has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa) with hot summers and mild winters. Its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea
aids in moderating the city's temperatures. As a result Algiers usually
does not see the extreme temperatures that are experienced in the
adjacent interior deserts. The climate of Algiers, like that of other
Mediterranean cities, features wet winters and dry summers. Algiers on
average receives roughly 600 millimetres (24 in) of rain per year, the
bulk of which is seen between October and April.
Snow is very rare; in 2012, the city received 10 centimetres (3.9 in), its first snowfall in eight years.
| Climate data for Algiers | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 25 (77) | 30 (86) | 28 (82) | 33 (91) | 32 (90) | 40 (104) | 42 (108) | 47 (117) | 40 (104) | 38 (100) | 32 (90) | 30 (86) | 47 (117) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 16.7 (62.1) | 17.4 (63.3) | 19.2 (66.6) | 20.9 (69.6) | 23.9 (75) | 28.2 (82.8) | 31.2 (88.2) | 32.2 (90) | 29.6 (85.3) | 25.9 (78.6) | 20.8 (69.4) | 17.9 (64.2) | 23.7 (74.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) | 11.9 (53.4) | 12.8 (55) | 14.7 (58.5) | 17.7 (63.9) | 21.3 (70.3) | 24.6 (76.3) | 25.2 (77.4) | 23.2 (73.8) | 19.4 (66.9) | 15.2 (59.4) | 12.1 (53.8) | 17.4 (63.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 5.5 (41.9) | 5.9 (42.6) | 7.1 (44.8) | 8.8 (47.8) | 12.3 (54.1) | 16.1 (61) | 18.9 (66) | 19.8 (67.6) | 17.6 (63.7) | 14.2 (57.6) | 9.8 (49.6) | 7.2 (45) | 11.9 (53.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −2 (28) | −1 (30) | −1 (30) | 1 (34) | 2 (36) | 8 (46) | 11 (52) | 10 (50) | 11 (52) | 2 (36) | 1 (34) | −2 (28) | −2 (28) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 81.4 (3.205) | 72.7 (2.862) | 55.0 (2.165) | 58.4 (2.299) | 41.9 (1.65) | 8.5 (0.335) | 4.5 (0.177) | 8.2 (0.323) | 28.3 (1.114) | 58.8 (2.315) | 89.6 (3.528) | 91.0 (3.583) | 598.3 (23.555) |
| Avg. rainy days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 11.4 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 7.3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 8.6 | 11.1 | 12.1 | 91.7 |
| % humidity | 82 | 80 | 77 | 77 | 75 | 74 | 73 | 71 | 75 | 80 | 80 | 81 | 77 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 149 | 165 | 202 | 258 | 319 | 318 | 350 | 319 | 237 | 229 | 165 | 136 | 2,847 |
| Source #1: World Meteorological Organization (UN),NOAA (1961-1990) | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Danish Meteorological Institute (sun and relative humidity),Weatherbase (record highs and lows) | |||||||||||||
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