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 Hamdallaye
Hamdallaye climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing10°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation476 mm78 wet days a year
13.56° N, 2.41° EElevation 222 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goHamdallaye · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Hamdallaye 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 476 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (162 mm, 26 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 37% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Hamdallaye 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° | 35° | 33° | 35° | 37° | 35° | 32° |
| Average low | 16° | 18° | 21° | 25° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 20° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 23 mm | 67 mm | 136 mm | 162 mm | 75 mm | 9 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 9 | 20 | 25.5 | 17.2 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 13% | 21% | 27% | 26% | 21% | 31% | 37% | 27% | 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 | 75 | 62 | 58 | 57 | 53 | 37 | 27 | 32 | 26 | 50 | 58 | 70 |
ivMonth by month
Hamdallaye in every month
January75
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February62
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
38° / 21°
1 mm · 0 wet days
April57
40° / 25°
3 mm · 0.3 wet days
May53
40° / 28°
23 mm · 2.3 wet days
June37
38° / 27°
67 mm · 9 wet days
July27
35° / 25°
136 mm · 20 wet days
August32
33° / 24°
162 mm · 25.5 wet days
September26
35° / 25°
75 mm · 17.2 wet days
October50
37° / 24°
9 mm · 3.2 wet days
November58
35° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December70
32° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days