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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Fakara
Fakara climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing10°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation467 mm74 wet days a year
13.51° N, 3.15° EElevation 224 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goFakara · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Fakara 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 31° and lows of 16°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 10°.
About 467 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (164 mm, 26 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 38% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Fakara is 0.2° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 55 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 20 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 | 31° | 34° | 38° | 40° | 40° | 38° | 34° | 32° | 34° | 37° | 35° | 32° |
| Average low | 16° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 27° | 25° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 20° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 26 mm | 66 mm | 127 mm | 164 mm | 72 mm | 10 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 8.7 | 18.5 | 25.5 | 16.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 13% | 21% | 26% | 25% | 22% | 32% | 38% | 28% | 20% | 17% | 16% |
| Daylight | 11h 25 | 11h 42 | 12h 03 | 12h 26 | 12h 45 | 12h 55 | 12h 51 | 12h 35 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 30 | 11h 20 |
| Month score | 74 | 61 | 58 | 58 | 54 | 37 | 27 | 33 | 28 | 51 | 58 | 69 |
ivMonth by month
Fakara in every month
January74
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February61
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
38° / 22°
0 mm · 0 wet days
April58
40° / 25°
2 mm · 0.2 wet days
May54
40° / 27°
26 mm · 1.8 wet days
June37
38° / 27°
66 mm · 8.7 wet days
July27
34° / 25°
127 mm · 18.5 wet days
August33
32° / 24°
164 mm · 25.5 wet days
September28
34° / 25°
72 mm · 16.3 wet days
October51
37° / 24°
10 mm · 3 wet days
November58
35° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December69
32° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days