Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Zouérat
Zouérat climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean25°day and night
Seasonal swing17°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation41 mm6 wet days a year
22.74° N, 12.47° WElevation 352 mUTC+0 · Greenwich Mean Time
When to goZouérat · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low33° / 20°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Zouérat has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 41° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 22° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 41 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. September is the wettest month (16 mm, 1 wet days) and June the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 4% in July to 25% in November.
Compared with Nouakchott, the capital, Zouérat is 10.8° warmer on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 41° · July
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- September
- Driest month
- June
- Clearest skies
- July · 4% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 31 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 45 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 | 22° | 26° | 29° | 31° | 34° | 37° | 41° | 41° | 38° | 33° | 28° | 24° |
| Average low | 10° | 12° | 14° | 16° | 18° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 20° | 15° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 4 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 1 mm | 5 mm | 16 mm | 7 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Cloud cover | 19% | 18% | 15% | 15% | 14% | 7% | 4% | 7% | 12% | 18% | 25% | 25% |
| Daylight | 10h 53 | 11h 24 | 12h 00 | 12h 40 | 13h 13 | 13h 31 | 13h 24 | 12h 56 | 12h 18 | 11h 39 | 11h 03 | 10h 45 |
| Month score | 99 | 96 | 83 | 73 | 63 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 55 | 64 | 88 | 99 |
ivMonth by month
Zouérat in every month
January99
22° / 10°
4 mm · 0.3 wet days
February96
26° / 12°
2 mm · 0.7 wet day
March83
29° / 14°
1 mm · 0.5 wet day
April73
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0.5 wet day
May63
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
June58
37° / 22°
2 mm · 0.2 wet days
July57
41° / 24°
1 mm · 0.5 wet day
August57
41° / 25°
5 mm · 0.3 wet days
September55
38° / 24°
16 mm · 1.2 wet day
October64
33° / 20°
7 mm · 0.7 wet day
November88
28° / 15°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
December99
24° / 11°
2 mm · 0.5 wet day