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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Dosso
Dosso climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing9°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation539 mm85 wet days a year
13.05° N, 3.19° EElevation 218 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goDosso · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Dosso has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 40° and nights 25°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 32° and lows of 17°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 9°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 539 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (182 mm, 27 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 41% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Dosso is 0.2° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 17° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 53 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 22 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 | 32° | 35° | 38° | 40° | 40° | 37° | 34° | 32° | 34° | 37° | 35° | 33° |
| Average low | 17° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 20° | 18° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 4 mm | 31 mm | 78 mm | 146 mm | 182 mm | 85 mm | 12 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 3 | 11.5 | 20 | 27.2 | 19.2 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 14% | 23% | 29% | 28% | 24% | 36% | 41% | 31% | 21% | 17% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 26 | 11h 43 | 12h 03 | 12h 25 | 12h 44 | 12h 53 | 12h 49 | 12h 34 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 32 | 11h 22 |
| Month score | 72 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 51 | 31 | 29 | 34 | 31 | 50 | 58 | 68 |
ivMonth by month
Dosso in every month
January72
32° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February59
35° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
38° / 22°
1 mm · 0 wet days
April57
40° / 25°
4 mm · 0.5 wet day
May51
40° / 27°
31 mm · 3 wet days
June31
37° / 26°
78 mm · 11.5 wet days
July29
34° / 25°
146 mm · 20 wet days
August34
32° / 24°
182 mm · 27.2 wet days
September31
34° / 24°
85 mm · 19.2 wet days
October50
37° / 24°
12 mm · 3.5 wet days
November58
35° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December68
33° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days