Climate guideThirty-year normals for Bawku
Bawku climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation948 mmper year
11.06° N, 0.24° WElevation 228 mUTC+0 · Greenwich Mean Time
When to goBawku · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Bawku has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 39° and nights 25°. August is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 22°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 7°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 948 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (244 mm) and January the driest (0 mm). Cloud cover ranges from 13% in January to 48% in August.
Compared with Accra, the capital, Bawku is 9.1° warmer on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · March
- Coldest nights
- 20° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 13% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 46 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 29 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 | 34° | 37° | 39° | 39° | 37° | 34° | 31° | 29° | 30° | 33° | 35° | 34° |
| Average low | 20° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 22° | 22° | 23° | 22° | 20° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 2 mm | 10 mm | 42 mm | 93 mm | 128 mm | 195 mm | 244 mm | 180 mm | 49 mm | 3 mm | 2 mm |
| Cloud cover | 13% | 17% | 30% | 41% | 41% | 35% | 43% | 48% | 41% | 28% | 19% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 33 | 11h 47 | 12h 03 | 12h 22 | 12h 38 | 12h 46 | 12h 43 | 12h 30 | 12h 12 | 11h 54 | 11h 37 | 11h 29 |
| Month score | 61 | 57 | 55 | 42 | 28 | 28 | 38 | 42 | 42 | 52 | 57 | 60 |
ivMonth by month
Bawku in every month
January61
34° / 20°
0 mm
February57
37° / 22°
2 mm
March55
39° / 25°
10 mm
April42
39° / 27°
42 mm
May28
37° / 26°
93 mm
June28
34° / 25°
128 mm
July38
31° / 23°
195 mm
August42
29° / 22°
244 mm
September42
30° / 22°
180 mm
October52
33° / 23°
49 mm
November57
35° / 22°
3 mm
December60
34° / 20°
2 mm