Climate guideThirty-year normals for Tasker
Tasker climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean27°day and night
Seasonal swing15°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation118 mm30 wet days a year
15.12° N, 10.70° EElevation 444 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goTasker · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low36° / 20°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Tasker has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh): very little rain and intense sun.
The warmest month is May, when afternoons average 40° and nights 24°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 25° and lows of 10°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 118 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (53 mm, 15 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in January to 30% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Tasker is 0.2° cooler on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · May
- Coldest nights
- 10° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 11% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 01 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 14 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 | 25° | 29° | 34° | 39° | 40° | 40° | 37° | 36° | 38° | 36° | 31° | 27° |
| Average low | 10° | 12° | 17° | 21° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 20° | 15° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 3 mm | 9 mm | 35 mm | 53 mm | 16 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 7.5 | 14.7 | 5.2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 11% | 11% | 16% | 15% | 12% | 11% | 24% | 30% | 18% | 12% | 15% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 19 | 11h 39 | 12h 02 | 12h 28 | 12h 50 | 13h 01 | 12h 56 | 12h 38 | 12h 14 | 11h 49 | 11h 26 | 11h 14 |
| Month score | 99 | 85 | 64 | 58 | 57 | 55 | 40 | 25 | 46 | 57 | 76 | 94 |
ivMonth by month
Tasker in every month
January99
25° / 10°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February85
29° / 12°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March64
34° / 17°
0 mm · 0 wet days
April58
39° / 21°
1 mm · 0.2 wet days
May57
40° / 24°
3 mm · 0.3 wet days
June55
40° / 25°
9 mm · 1.3 wet day
July40
37° / 25°
35 mm · 7.5 wet days
August25
36° / 24°
53 mm · 14.7 wet days
September46
38° / 23°
16 mm · 5.2 wet days
October57
36° / 20°
1 mm · 0.5 wet day
November76
31° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days
December94
27° / 11°
0 mm · 0 wet days