Climate guideThirty-year normals for Mongo
Mongo climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan · Nov–Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing8°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation667 mm97 wet days a year
12.19° N, 18.69° EElevation 429 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goMongo · weather score
Best timeJan · Nov–Dec
October: high / low34° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Mongo has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 40° and nights 25°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 30° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 667 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (223 mm, 29 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 15% in December to 55% in August.
Compared with N'Djamena, the capital, Mongo is 1.4° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 15% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 50 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 25 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 32° | 35° | 38° | 40° | 38° | 36° | 32° | 30° | 31° | 34° | 35° | 33° |
| Average low | 16° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 22° | 23° | 22° | 20° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 9 mm | 33 mm | 74 mm | 185 mm | 223 mm | 118 mm | 24 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 4 | 11.7 | 26.3 | 28.8 | 19.8 | 5.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 16% | 17% | 22% | 22% | 26% | 35% | 52% | 55% | 48% | 25% | 18% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 29 | 11h 45 | 12h 03 | 12h 24 | 12h 41 | 12h 50 | 12h 47 | 12h 32 | 12h 12 | 11h 52 | 11h 34 | 11h 25 |
| Month score | 69 | 58 | 57 | 58 | 49 | 28 | 31 | 36 | 34 | 49 | 59 | 66 |
ivMonth by month
Mongo in every month
January69
32° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February58
35° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March57
38° / 22°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
April58
40° / 25°
9 mm · 0.2 wet days
May49
38° / 26°
33 mm · 4 wet days
June28
36° / 25°
74 mm · 11.7 wet days
July31
32° / 23°
185 mm · 26.3 wet days
August36
30° / 22°
223 mm · 28.8 wet days
September34
31° / 23°
118 mm · 19.8 wet days
October49
34° / 22°
24 mm · 5.5 wet days
November59
35° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December66
33° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days