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Fimla climate by month
What the weather is like
Fimla has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is November, when afternoons average 32° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 29° and lows of 19°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 5°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 599 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. September is the wettest month (179 mm, 27 wet days) and January the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 16% in April to 49% in August.
The sea reaches about 29° in October. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Dakar, the capital, Fimla is 4.7° warmer on a November afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · November
- Coldest nights
- 19° · January
- Wettest month
- September
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- April · 16% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · October
- Longest day
- 12 h 57 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 18 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 31° | 31° | 31° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 30° | 31° | 32° | 30° |
| Average low | 19° | 19° | 20° | 20° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 20° |
| Precipitation | 2 mm | 1 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 1 mm | 22 mm | 120 mm | 236 mm | 179 mm | 36 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 6.7 | 17.7 | 26.8 | 27.2 | 13.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 25% | 17% | 16% | 18% | 27% | 40% | 49% | 46% | 29% | 32% | 34% |
| Sea temperature | 21° | 20° | 19° | 20° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 27° | 24° |
| 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 | 84 | 76 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 63 | 43 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 68 | 76 |