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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Madaoua
Madaoua climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean28°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation386 mm66 wet days a year
14.07° N, 5.96° EElevation 328 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goMadaoua · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 23°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Madaoua has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is April, when afternoons average 40° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 30° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 386 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (140 mm, 23 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, Madaoua is 0.4° cooler on a April afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 14° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 57 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 18 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° | 33° | 37° | 40° | 40° | 39° | 35° | 33° | 35° | 37° | 34° | 31° |
| Average low | 14° | 17° | 20° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 19° | 16° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 17 mm | 46 mm | 109 mm | 140 mm | 67 mm | 6 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 5.7 | 18.5 | 23 | 15 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 12% | 19% | 22% | 20% | 18% | 31% | 38% | 28% | 18% | 16% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 23 | 11h 41 | 12h 02 | 12h 27 | 12h 47 | 12h 57 | 12h 53 | 12h 36 | 12h 13 | 11h 50 | 11h 29 | 11h 18 |
| Month score | 81 | 68 | 58 | 57 | 54 | 45 | 26 | 32 | 25 | 54 | 62 | 76 |
ivMonth by month
Madaoua in every month
January81
30° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February68
33° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
37° / 20°
0 mm · 0 wet days
April57
40° / 24°
1 mm · 0.3 wet days
May54
40° / 26°
17 mm · 1.7 wet days
June45
39° / 26°
46 mm · 5.7 wet days
July26
35° / 25°
109 mm · 18.5 wet days
August32
33° / 24°
140 mm · 23 wet days
September25
35° / 24°
67 mm · 15 wet days
October54
37° / 23°
6 mm · 1.5 wet days
November62
34° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December76
31° / 16°
0 mm · 0 wet days