Climate guideThirty-year normals for Zinder
Zinder climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean27°day and night
Seasonal swing11°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation345 mm61 wet days a year
13.81° N, 8.99° EElevation 460 mUTC+1 · West Africa Time
When to goZinder · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low36° / 22°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Zinder 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 28° and lows of 13°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 11°.
About 345 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (128 mm, 22 wet days) and February the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 12% in January to 40% in August.
Compared with Niamey, the capital, Zinder is 0.9° cooler on a May afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · May
- Coldest nights
- 13° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- January · 12% 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 | 28° | 31° | 36° | 39° | 40° | 38° | 34° | 32° | 35° | 36° | 33° | 30° |
| Average low | 13° | 15° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 17° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 15 mm | 33 mm | 113 mm | 128 mm | 51 mm | 3 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.3 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 4.3 | 16.2 | 22 | 13.5 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 12% | 12% | 19% | 21% | 19% | 18% | 34% | 40% | 28% | 18% | 17% | 15% |
| Daylight | 11h 24 | 11h 42 | 12h 03 | 12h 26 | 12h 46 | 12h 56 | 12h 52 | 12h 35 | 12h 13 | 11h 50 | 11h 30 | 11h 19 |
| Month score | 85 | 73 | 58 | 58 | 55 | 48 | 28 | 33 | 27 | 51 | 65 | 81 |
ivMonth by month
Zinder in every month
January85
28° / 13°
0 mm · 0.3 wet days
February73
31° / 15°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
36° / 19°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
April58
39° / 22°
2 mm · 0.2 wet days
May55
40° / 24°
15 mm · 1.3 wet day
June48
38° / 25°
33 mm · 4.3 wet days
July28
34° / 24°
113 mm · 16.2 wet days
August33
32° / 23°
128 mm · 22 wet days
September27
35° / 23°
51 mm · 13.5 wet days
October51
36° / 22°
3 mm · 2.8 wet days
November65
33° / 17°
0 mm · 0.5 wet day
December81
30° / 14°
0 mm · 0 wet days