Ouagadougou weather by month & the best time to visit
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · major city break · semi-arid climate
The best time to visit Ouagadougou is January — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 97/100), with December close behind. Ouagadougou averages about 3,087 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 32°C / 90°F and roughly 1 mm of rain in January.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,087
- Sunniest month
- January
- Peak score
- 97/100
- Rain / year
- 817 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 10 (very high)
- Population
- 2.4M
- Elevation
- 305 m
When is the best time to visit Ouagadougou?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Ouagadougou is January, then December. The dullest month is April (19/100, 26 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Ouagadougou?
Ouagadougou is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,087 hours of sunshine a year. 78 Sunshine Score points separate January (97) from April (19), so the month you pick matters. It is the sunnier of the two destinations tracked in Burkina Faso. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 70% of the year's 817 mm falls in the three months around August.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 97 | 32° / 90°F | 14° / 57°F | 1 mm | 8 |
| February | 58 | 36° / 97°F | 18° / 64°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| March | 29 | 39° / 102°F | 22° / 72°F | 3 mm | 10 |
| April | 19 | 40° / 104°F | 25° / 77°F | 26 mm | 10 |
| May | 34 | 38° / 100°F | 26° / 79°F | 63 mm | 10 |
| June | 54 | 35° / 95°F | 24° / 75°F | 107 mm | 9 |
| July | 70 | 32° / 90°F | 23° / 73°F | 178 mm | 9 |
| August | 70 | 31° / 88°F | 22° / 72°F | 245 mm | 10 |
| September | 70 | 31° / 88°F | 22° / 72°F | 147 mm | 10 |
| October | 71 | 34° / 93°F | 21° / 70°F | 45 mm | 10 |
| November | 78 | 34° / 93°F | 17° / 63°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| December | 97 | 32° / 90°F | 14° / 57°F | 0 mm | 8 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Niamey Niger · 420 km · best in Jan · 3,305 h sun/yr
- Kumasi Ghana · 627 km · best in Jan · 1,964 h sun/yr
- Bamako Mali · 699 km · best in Dec · 3,087 h sun/yr
- Lomé Togo · 752 km · best in Jan · 2,104 h sun/yr
- Accra Ghana · 765 km · best in Jan · 2,134 h sun/yr
- Cotonou Benin · 792 km · best in Jan · 1,921 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Tamale Ghana · 319 km · 2,500 h sun/yr · best in Dec
- Bobo Dioulasso Burkina Faso · 334 km · 3,007 h sun/yr · best in Dec
- Mopti Mali · 367 km · 3,235 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Gao Mali · 463 km · 3,612 h sun/yr · best in Jan
- Timbuktu Mali · 513 km · 3,597 h sun/yr · best in Jan
Head-to-head
How Ouagadougou compares month by month: Ouagadougou vs Bamako · Ouagadougou vs Kumasi · Ouagadougou vs Niamey · all comparisons
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