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 Korgom
Korgom climate by month
Hot semi-arid · BShBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean27°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation457 mm72 wet days a year
13.45° N, 8.25° EElevation 477 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goKorgom · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low36° / 21°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Korgom 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 39° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 13°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 457 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (160 mm, 24 wet days) and February the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in January to 43% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Korgom is 1.7° cooler on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 39° · April
- Coldest nights
- 13° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 11% 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 | 29° | 32° | 36° | 39° | 39° | 37° | 33° | 31° | 34° | 36° | 33° | 30° |
| Average low | 13° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 21° | 18° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 22 mm | 50 mm | 146 mm | 160 mm | 71 mm | 6 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 6.2 | 18.3 | 23.8 | 16.2 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 11% | 13% | 20% | 23% | 22% | 21% | 37% | 43% | 31% | 20% | 17% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 25 | 11h 42 | 12h 03 | 12h 26 | 12h 45 | 12h 55 | 12h 51 | 12h 35 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 31 | 11h 20 |
| Month score | 84 | 72 | 57 | 57 | 53 | 43 | 30 | 36 | 31 | 50 | 65 | 80 |
ivMonth by month
Korgom in every month
January84
29° / 13°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
February72
32° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March57
36° / 19°
0 mm · 0.5 wet day
April57
39° / 22°
2 mm · 0.3 wet days
May53
39° / 24°
22 mm · 2.2 wet days
June43
37° / 25°
50 mm · 6.2 wet days
July30
33° / 23°
146 mm · 18.3 wet days
August36
31° / 23°
160 mm · 23.8 wet days
September31
34° / 23°
71 mm · 16.2 wet days
October50
36° / 21°
6 mm · 3.2 wet days
November65
33° / 18°
0 mm · 0.5 wet day
December80
30° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days