Niamey weather by month & the best time to visit

🇳🇪 Niger · city break · semi-arid climate

The best time to visit Niamey is January — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 99/100), with December close behind. Niamey averages about 3,305 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 31°C / 88°F and roughly 0 mm of rain in January.

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Sun hours / year

3,305

Sunniest month

January

Peak score

99/100

Rain / year

546 mm

Midday UV at peak

10 (very high)

Population

1.3M

Elevation

220 m

When is the best time to visit Niamey?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Niamey is January, then December. The dullest month is April (10/100, 8 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Niamey?

Niamey is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,305 hours of sunshine a year. 89 Sunshine Score points separate January (99) from April (10), so the month you pick matters. It is the less sunny of the two destinations tracked in Niger. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 75% of the year's 546 mm falls in the three months around August.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Ouagadougou Burkina Faso · 420 km · best in Jan · 3,087 h sun/yr
• Kano Nigeria · 706 km · best in Jan · 3,209 h sun/yr
• Abuja Nigeria · 745 km · best in Nov · 2,524 h sun/yr
• Lagos Nigeria · 778 km · best in Jan · 1,868 h sun/yr
• Cotonou Benin · 792 km · best in Jan · 1,921 h sun/yr
• Lomé Togo · 820 km · best in Jan · 2,104 h sun/yr

Nearest destinations

• Sokoto Nigeria · 333 km · 3,060 h sun/yr · best in Jan
• Gao Mali · 387 km · 3,612 h sun/yr · best in Jan
• Tamale Ghana · 549 km · 2,500 h sun/yr · best in Dec
• Katsina Nigeria · 595 km · 3,367 h sun/yr · best in Jan
• Ilorin/Ogbomosho Nigeria · 615 km · 2,273 h sun/yr · best in Dec

Head-to-head

How Niamey compares month by month: Niamey vs Kano · Niamey vs Abuja · Niamey vs Ouagadougou · all comparisons