Climate guideThirty-year normals for Kosti
Kosti climate by month
Hot desert · BWhBest Jan–Feb · Dec
Annual mean29°day and night
Seasonal swing8°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation312 mm91 wet days a year
13.16° N, 32.66° EElevation 387 mUTC+2 · Central Africa Time
When to goKosti · weather score
Best timeJan–Feb · Dec
October: high / low37° / 25°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Kosti 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 33° and lows of 18°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 312 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (110 mm, 26 wet days) and January the driest (0 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in November to 44% in August.
Compared with Khartoum, the capital, Kosti is 1.3° warmer on a April afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 40° · April
- Coldest nights
- 18° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- November · 8% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 54 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 21 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 | 33° | 35° | 38° | 40° | 40° | 38° | 34° | 33° | 34° | 37° | 36° | 33° |
| Average low | 18° | 19° | 22° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 25° | 23° | 19° |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 2 mm | 13 mm | 28 mm | 98 mm | 110 mm | 54 mm | 7 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 10.2 | 25 | 26 | 17.7 | 7 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Cloud cover | 10% | 11% | 12% | 12% | 22% | 26% | 39% | 44% | 37% | 20% | 8% | 9% |
| Daylight | 11h 26 | 11h 43 | 12h 03 | 12h 25 | 12h 44 | 12h 54 | 12h 50 | 12h 34 | 12h 13 | 11h 51 | 11h 32 | 11h 21 |
| Month score | 68 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 49 | 34 | 26 | 28 | 25 | 42 | 57 | 65 |
ivMonth by month
Kosti in every month
January68
33° / 18°
0 mm · 0 wet days
February59
35° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days
March58
38° / 22°
0 mm · 0.2 wet days
April58
40° / 24°
2 mm · 0.2 wet days
May49
40° / 26°
13 mm · 3.7 wet days
June34
38° / 26°
28 mm · 10.2 wet days
July26
34° / 24°
98 mm · 25 wet days
August28
33° / 24°
110 mm · 26 wet days
September25
34° / 24°
54 mm · 17.7 wet days
October42
37° / 25°
7 mm · 7 wet days
November57
36° / 23°
0 mm · 0.5 wet day
December65
33° / 19°
0 mm · 0 wet days