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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kidal
Kidal climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing15°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation101 mm22 wet days a year
18.44° N, 1.41° EElevation 457 mUTC+0 · Greenwich Mean Time
When to goKidal · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kidal has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is June, when afternoons average 42° and nights 28°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 12°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 101 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (37 mm, 11 wet days) and January the driest (1 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in June to 24% in December.
Compared with Bamako, the capital, Kidal is 7.3° warmer on a June afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 42° · June
- Coldest nights
- 12° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- June · 8% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 14 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 02 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 | 26° | 30° | 34° | 39° | 41° | 42° | 40° | 39° | 40° | 37° | 32° | 28° |
| Average low | 12° | 15° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 28° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 23° | 18° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 9 mm | 34 mm | 37 mm | 16 mm | 2 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 6.3 | 11.3 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 21% | 17% | 16% | 16% | 14% | 8% | 9% | 12% | 10% | 12% | 18% | 24% |
| Daylight | 11h 08 | 11h 33 | 12h 01 | 12h 33 | 13h 00 | 13h 14 | 13h 08 | 12h 46 | 12h 15 | 11h 44 | 11h 16 | 11h 02 |
| Month score | 95 | 80 | 63 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 43 | 31 | 50 | 57 | 69 | 87 |
ivMonth by month
Kidal in every month
January95
26° / 12°
1 mm · 0 wet days
February80
30° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March63
34° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
April58
39° / 23°
0 mm · 0 wet days
May57
41° / 26°
2 mm · 0.3 wet days
June57
42° / 28°
9 mm · 0.5 wet day
July43
40° / 27°
34 mm · 6.3 wet days
August31
39° / 27°
37 mm · 11.3 wet days
September50
40° / 26°
16 mm · 3.3 wet days
October57
37° / 23°
2 mm · 0.5 wet day
November69
32° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December87
28° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days