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 Karma, Niger
Karma climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation396 mm72 wet days a year
13.67° N, 1.81° EElevation 196 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goKarma · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low38° / 24°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Karma has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 41° 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 11°.
About 396 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (140 mm, 25 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 13% in January to 35% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Karma is 0.2° warmer on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 41° · April
- Coldest nights
- 16° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 13% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 56 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 19 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° | 41° | 41° | 39° | 35° | 33° | 35° | 38° | 36° | 32° |
| Average low | 16° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 20° | 17° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 15 mm | 60 mm | 106 mm | 140 mm | 66 mm | 7 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7.5 | 19.5 | 24.5 | 15.7 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 13% | 14% | 21% | 27% | 25% | 20% | 29% | 35% | 26% | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| Daylight | 11h 24 | 11h 42 | 12h 03 | 12h 26 | 12h 45 | 12h 56 | 12h 52 | 12h 35 | 12h 13 | 11h 50 | 11h 30 | 11h 19 |
| Month score | 74 | 62 | 58 | 58 | 53 | 40 | 25 | 31 | 25 | 52 | 58 | 69 |
ivMonth by month
Karma in every month
January74
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February62
34° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
38° / 22°
0 mm · 0 wet days
April58
41° / 25°
2 mm · 0 wet days
May53
41° / 28°
15 mm · 2 wet days
June40
39° / 27°
60 mm · 7.5 wet days
July25
35° / 26°
106 mm · 19.5 wet days
August31
33° / 24°
140 mm · 24.5 wet days
September25
35° / 25°
66 mm · 15.7 wet days
October52
38° / 24°
7 mm · 2.5 wet days
November58
36° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December69
32° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days