Sidi Boulaalam (Arabic: سيدي بولعلام) is a small town and rural commune in Essaouira Province, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco.
[3] At the time of the 2014 census, the commune had a total population of 8,142 people living in 1,561 households.
[4] The climate in Sidi Boulaalam is semi-arid, with cooler winters than the coast, freezing occurring in the winter, but it is warmer than the coast in summer.
The average total annual rainfall is only 327 millimetres (12.9 in), with most of it occurring in the winter, and almost no precipitation in July and August.
[1] Fifteen people were killed and many more injured there during a crowd crush for food in November 2017.