Salé
City in Morocco: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Monuments de Salé: Ismael zniber and Bertramz for Sale,BabMrisa.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Salé is a city in Morocco, in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra. About 972,299 people live in the city proper, making it the 6th largest city of Morocco in our atlas.
It lies at 34.05° N, 6.80° W, about 34 m (112 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Casablanca time zone.
Location
Red dot: Salé. Green dots: other major cities of Morocco. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Salé has a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate (Köppen Csa). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 28°C (83°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 11°C (51°F). Around 490 mm (19 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Nov.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in MoroccoNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Rabat · 5 km
- Kenitra · 31 km
- Casablanca · 91 km
- Meknes · 116 km
- Fes · 165 km
- Tangier · 211 km
- Tétouan · 214 km
- Marrakesh · 290 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2537763 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q466046 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Monuments de Salé: Ismael zniber and Bertramz for Sale,BabMrisa.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Musée de l'histoire, Rabat (2): ArnoldBetten, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Burg Mohammed 6: RG TLV, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MMVI: J. N'Demenye, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Musée des Oudayas interior courtyard: Manfred Ewel, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Salle Ibn Yassine Rabat: Dak32, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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