11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ E 5 km/h
Humidity 30 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
38°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ E 27 km/h
Gusts33 km/h
Humidity 12 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
29°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ N 6 km/h
Humidity 21 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
38°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ ENE 26 km/h
Humidity 13 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
28°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ NNW 4 km/h
Humidity 25 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
37°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ ENE 18 km/h
Gusts25 km/h
Humidity 13 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ NNE 7 km/h
Humidity 22 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
37°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ ENE 22 km/h
Humidity 14 %
Bamako forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Bamako 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 262 mm.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from September to July; the typical peak is 39 °C in April.
From November to April, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
Day and night differ most in November: 34 °C in the afternoon against 20 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 36 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (33 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
32 °C
18 °C
1 mm
Feb
35 °C
21 °C
1 mm
Mar
37 °C
24 °C
3 mm
Apr
39 °C
26 °C
8 mm
May
37 °C
27 °C
33 mm
Jun
34 °C
25 °C
93 mm
Jul
30 °C
23 °C
205 mm
Aug
29 °C
23 °C
262 mm
Sep
31 °C
23 °C
169 mm
Oct
33 °C
23 °C
51 mm
Nov
34 °C
20 °C
2 mm
Dec
33 °C
18 °C
0 mm
Whole year
34 °C
22 °C
830 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.61° N, 7.98° 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 Bamako: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.529µg/m³
PM1051µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Bamako
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Bamako, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Bamako yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Bamako
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 09:04 Set 22:41
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Bamako); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Bamako
Curious about the weather in Bamako on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Bamako weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Bamako, Bamako: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 29 °C (feels like 31 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 29 °C to 35 °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.
Bamako weather data for developers
Use the Bamako forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
