Climate in Tassili n'Ajjer National Park

The plateau is hyperarid, very exposed and barren, but there are sheltered more humid microclimates where relict Mediterranean fauna and flora survive. The annual rainfall is scant and variable, with a mean of 25 millimeters (mm), locally occasionally 150mm. The plateau’s summer temperature range is between 20º-30ºC and the winter range is between 31º-1ºC; snow is recorded on the peaks. The annual mean is 20.3ºC at 1,100m but in summer Djanet at this elevation at the foot of the southern escarpment has experienced 50°C