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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Filingué
Filingué climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation344 mm67 wet days a year
14.35° N, 3.32° EElevation 222 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goFilingué · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low38° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Filingué has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 41° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 30° and lows of 15°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 344 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (129 mm, 24 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 13% in January to 34% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Filingué is 0.3° warmer on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 41° · May
- Coldest nights
- 15° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 13% 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 | 30° | 34° | 37° | 41° | 41° | 39° | 36° | 34° | 36° | 38° | 35° | 32° |
| Average low | 15° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 27° | 28° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 19° | 16° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 14 mm | 35 mm | 104 mm | 129 mm | 55 mm | 5 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 6.7 | 17.2 | 23.7 | 14.3 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 13% | 13% | 19% | 22% | 21% | 17% | 28% | 34% | 24% | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| Daylight | 11h 22 | 11h 41 | 12h 02 | 12h 27 | 12h 47 | 12h 58 | 12h 54 | 12h 37 | 12h 13 | 11h 50 | 11h 28 | 11h 17 |
| Month score | 77 | 64 | 58 | 58 | 53 | 42 | 25 | 27 | 25 | 53 | 58 | 73 |
ivMonth by month
Filingué in every month
January77
30° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February64
34° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
37° / 21°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
April58
41° / 24°
2 mm · 0.2 wet days
May53
41° / 27°
14 mm · 2.2 wet days
June42
39° / 28°
35 mm · 6.7 wet days
July25
36° / 26°
104 mm · 17.2 wet days
August27
34° / 25°
129 mm · 23.7 wet days
September25
36° / 25°
55 mm · 14.3 wet days
October53
38° / 23°
5 mm · 2.3 wet days
November58
35° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December73
32° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days