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Bobo-Dioulasso weather

Hauts-Bassins · 904,920 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:17

Partly cloudy
35°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 38°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
12 km/h
Humidity
29 %
Pressure
1009 hPa
Clouds
67 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:08 Set 17:53 Day 11 h 45 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
29°26°
Feels like 38°
Wind ↑ W 10 km/h
Gusts 20 km/h
Humidity 64 %
💧 0.7 mm
18:00
Overcast
29°
0.1mm
NNE 3
21:00
Rain showers
26°
0.6mm
W 10

Bobo-Dioulasso forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
21°25°30°34°38°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed35°25°Thu 29 Oct: max 35° · min 25° · normal 28.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 35° · min 24° · normal 28.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 33° · min 23° · normal 28.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 35° · min 24° · normal 28.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 35° · min 24° · normal 28.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 36° · min 25° · normal 28.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 35° · min 25° · normal 28.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu22°30°38°37°23°07
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bobo-Dioulasso climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from September to June; the typical peak is 37 °C in March.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 68% of the annual total; August by itself averages 255 mm.

The hottest stretch is April, when afternoons average 37 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 23 °C.

From November to February, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 35 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan33 °C19 °C1 mm
Feb36 °C22 °C1 mm
Mar37 °C25 °C10 mm
Apr37 °C26 °C39 mm
May35 °C26 °C72 mm
Jun32 °C24 °C83 mm
Jul30 °C23 °C174 mm
Aug29 °C23 °C255 mm
Sep30 °C23 °C156 mm
Oct32 °C23 °C62 mm
Nov34 °C21 °C5 mm
Dec33 °C19 °C0 mm
Whole year33 °C23 °C860 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.18° N, 4.29° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Bobo-Dioulasso: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.516µg/m³
PM1024µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bobo-Dioulasso

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bobo-Dioulasso, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Bobo-Dioulasso yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Bobo-Dioulasso

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 08:52 Set 22:22
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Ouagadougou); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bobo-Dioulasso

Curious about the weather in Bobo-Dioulasso on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Bobo-Dioulasso weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bobo-Dioulasso, Hauts-Bassins: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 35 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 35 °C and around 1 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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