CLIMATE
Annual sunshine levels are more than 8 hours a day at Agadir, Fez, Marrakesh and Ouarzazate with average temperatures above 21^o. But if you feel too hot or too cold you only have to travel a few kilometres. You can go from the snow of the Atlas to the Saharan desert in one single day !

LANGUAGE
Apart from classical Arabic, the language of education, the Civil Service and the media, the everyday language in Morocco is a dialectal Arabic, as well as Tamazight (Berber) spoken in the Rif, the Atlas and the Souss (the dialect varies from region to region). Most Moroccans speak French and many speak Spanish and English.

TELEPHONE

TO CALL MOROCCO FROM ABROAD
Dial the international code for Morocco (212), then the area code (a figure from 2 to 5), then the seven figures of the number you want.

INTERNATIONAL CALLS FROM MOROCCO
Dial 00, then dial the international code followed by the number you want. Warning: Before making an international call from your hotel room, check the rates. Some hotels impose a "minimum charge" wich can make even a short call very expensive.

TO TELEPHONE INSIDE MOROCCO
Within the same area, simply dial the nine figure number you want. From on area to another, dial the area code preceded by 0 (from 02 to 05) then, without waiting for another tone, the seven figures of the number you want.

To call, a mobile phone (car), the code is always 06, whatever area it may be in.

There are phone booths using both coins and cards. Phone cards are available at post offices and in some small convenient stores.

USEFUL NUMBERS

• Police: 19
• Fire service: 15
• Hightway emergency service: 177
• Information: 160
• International information: 120
• Telegrams and telephone: 140
• Long distance: 100