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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Bouza
Bouza climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing12°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation406 mm66 wet days a year
14.42° N, 6.04° EElevation 406 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goBouza · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Bouza has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 40° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 12°.
About 406 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (152 mm, 23 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 36% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Bouza is 0.4° cooler on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · May
- Coldest nights
- 14° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 58 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 17 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 | 29° | 32° | 36° | 40° | 40° | 39° | 35° | 33° | 35° | 37° | 34° | 30° |
| Average low | 14° | 16° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 22° | 18° | 15° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 20 mm | 44 mm | 113 mm | 152 mm | 69 mm | 6 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 5.7 | 18.5 | 23 | 15 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 13% | 19% | 21% | 19% | 16% | 29% | 36% | 26% | 17% | 16% | 16% |
| Daylight | 11h 22 | 11h 40 | 12h 02 | 12h 27 | 12h 48 | 12h 58 | 12h 54 | 12h 37 | 12h 13 | 11h 49 | 11h 28 | 11h 17 |
| Month score | 84 | 71 | 58 | 57 | 54 | 45 | 26 | 32 | 25 | 54 | 64 | 79 |
ivMonth by month
Bouza in every month
January84
29° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February71
32° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
36° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
April57
40° / 23°
2 mm · 0.3 wet days
May54
40° / 26°
20 mm · 1.7 wet days
June45
39° / 26°
44 mm · 5.7 wet days
July26
35° / 25°
113 mm · 18.5 wet days
August32
33° / 24°
152 mm · 23 wet days
September25
35° / 24°
69 mm · 15 wet days
October54
37° / 22°
6 mm · 1.5 wet days
November64
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December79
30° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days