Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Climate
The warmest month is March, with an average high of 38°C; the coldest is December, with an average low of 20°C. A normal year brings 1106 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Bobo-dioulasso, since 1973. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Sep 28
- Normal high
- 32°C
- Normal low
- 22°C
- Record high
- 39°Cin 1992
- Record low
- 19°Cin 1974
- Chance of a wet day
- 84%
- Daylight
- 12 h 03 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°C | 39°C (1987) | 11°C (1995) | 0 mm | 0.0 | |
| February | 36°C | 23°C | 41°C (2010) | 12°C (1997) | 6 mm | 0.0 |
| March | 38°C | 25°C | 42°C (2013) | 17°C (2004) | 16 mm | 3.1 |
| April | 37°C | 25°C | 44°C (2020) | 20°C (1986) | 57 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 35°C | 24°C | 41°C (2024) | 16°C (2010) | 109 mm | 21.7 |
| June | 33°C | 39°C (1982) | 14°C (2010) | 147 mm | 24.0 | |
| July | 30°C | 22°C | 38°C (1984) | 18°C (1976) | 217 mm | 27.9 |
| August | 30°C | 22°C | 37°C (1994) | 18°C (2010) | 282 mm | 31.0 |
| September | 31°C | 39°C (2010) | 16°C (1973) | 192 mm | 27.0 | |
| October | 33°C | 22°C | 40°C (1978) | 18°C (2010) | 74 mm | 18.6 |
| November | 35°C | 22°C | 40°C (1993) | 16°C (2009) | 6 mm | 3.0 |
| December | 33°C | 20°C | 38°C (2016) | 12°C (1980) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| Year | 34°C | 1106 mm | 168 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1106 mm in a normal year, most in August.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Bobo-Dioulasso.
The muggiest month is July, when 100 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2°C | 26% | 98% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 1°C | 22% | 90% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 8°C | 30% | 62% | 10% | 17% | 10% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 17°C | 48% | 13% | 7% | 22% | 46% | 11% | 0% |
| May | 21°C | 61% | 0% | 1% | 5% | 55% | 39% | 0% |
| June | 21°C | 70% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 40% | 59% | 0% |
| July | 22°C | 79% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 16% | 84% | 0% |
| August | 22°C | 85% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 98% | 0% |
| September | 22°C | 83% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 96% | 0% |
| October | 21°C | 76% | 0% | 1% | 5% | 27% | 67% | 0% |
| November | 15°C | 55% | 30% | 24% | 19% | 23% | 4% | 0% |
| December | 7°C | 37% | 93% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is December, with the sky 27 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is August, at 71 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is January, averaging 14.8 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 13, with 12 h 47 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 14, with 11 h 28 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Bobo-Dioulasso in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1973. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station UVM00065510, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.