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Ouagadougou weather

Centre · 2,415,266 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:13

Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 13 d

31°

Mainly clear

Feels like 40°C

Wind

1 km/h

Gusts

24 km/h

Humidity

55 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

47 %

Storm

Rise 05:58 Set 17:41 Day 11 h 42 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Partly cloudy

32°31°

Feels like 35°

Wind ↑ WSW 16 km/h

Gusts 24 km/h

Humidity 33 %

18:00

31°

N 1

21:00

32°

WSW 16

Ouagadougou forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Ouagadougou climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 77% of the annual total; August by itself averages 207 mm.

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — August, the mildest, still averages 30 °C.

Day and night differ most in November: 35 °C in the afternoon against 20 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 39 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (34 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	18 °C	0 mm
Feb	35 °C	21 °C	1 mm
Mar	38 °C	24 °C	2 mm
Apr	39 °C	27 °C	12 mm
May	37 °C	28 °C	28 mm
Jun	34 °C	26 °C	56 mm
Jul	32 °C	24 °C	130 mm
Aug	30 °C	23 °C	207 mm
Sep	32 °C	24 °C	112 mm
Oct	34 °C	24 °C	34 mm
Nov	35 °C	20 °C	1 mm
Dec	33 °C	18 °C	0 mm
Whole year	34 °C	23 °C	580 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.37° N, 1.53° 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 Ouagadougou: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.526µg/m³

PM1043µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ouagadougou

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ouagadougou, 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 Ouagadougou yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Ouagadougou

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 08:37 Set 22:13

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 Ouagadougou

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

Ouagadougou weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ouagadougou, Centre: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 31 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 1 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 38 °C and a dry sky; 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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations