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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kangaba
Kangaba climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jan · Nov–Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,032 mm132 wet days a year
11.93° N, 8.42° WElevation 343 mUTC+0 · Greenwich Mean Time
When to goKangaba · weather score
Best timeJan · Nov–Dec
October: high / low31° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kangaba has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 39° and nights 26°. 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 1,032 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (282 mm, 26 wet days) and January the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 17% in January to 50% in August.
Compared with Bamako, the capital, Kangaba is 0.6° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · April
- Coldest nights
- 18° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 17% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 49 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 26 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 | 33° | 36° | 38° | 39° | 37° | 33° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 31° | 34° | 33° |
| Average low | 18° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 22° | 20° | 18° |
| Precipitation | 1 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 28 mm | 79 mm | 144 mm | 235 mm | 282 mm | 191 mm | 64 mm | 4 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 5.3 | 14.7 | 18 | 25.3 | 26 | 25.7 | 14.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Cloud cover | 17% | 17% | 20% | 33% | 43% | 40% | 46% | 50% | 44% | 35% | 25% | 22% |
| Daylight | 11h 30 | 11h 45 | 12h 03 | 12h 24 | 12h 40 | 12h 49 | 12h 46 | 12h 31 | 12h 12 | 11h 52 | 11h 35 | 11h 26 |
| Month score | 68 | 58 | 54 | 44 | 20 | 30 | 42 | 43 | 43 | 39 | 63 | 67 |
ivMonth by month
Kangaba in every month
January68
33° / 18°
1 mm · 0 wet days
February58
36° / 21°
1 mm · 0.2 wet days
March54
38° / 24°
3 mm · 1.8 wet days
April44
39° / 26°
28 mm · 5.3 wet days
May20
37° / 26°
79 mm · 14.7 wet days
June30
33° / 24°
144 mm · 18 wet days
July42
29° / 22°
235 mm · 25.3 wet days
August43
29° / 22°
282 mm · 26 wet days
September43
29° / 22°
191 mm · 25.7 wet days
October39
31° / 22°
64 mm · 14.5 wet days
November63
34° / 20°
4 mm · 0.7 wet day
December67
33° / 18°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days