Ideal weather days in Niamey
The best time to visit Niamey for warm, dry weather is December, with about 20 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Niamey's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Niamey, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot286
- Too wet43
- Too windy7
- Too cold0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Niamey averaged 51 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Niger, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December and January (up to 24 a month, 81 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 286 a year, mostly in January to July and September to November. Another 43 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in July, August and September. A day can fail more than one test.
Niamey weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34 °C 93 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 11 of 31 |
| February | 37 °C 99 °F | 0 | 3 | 28 | 3 of 28 |
| March | 42 °C 108 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 43 °C 109 °F | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 42 °C 108 °F | 2 | 2 | 23 | 0 of 31 |
| June | 38 °C 100 °F | 7 | 2 | 16 | 0 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 95 °F | 9 | 0 | 4 | 3 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 16 | 0 | 2 | 8 of 31 |
| September | 35 °C 95 °F | 10 | 0 | 8 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 39 °C 101 °F | 2 | 0 | 26 | 1 of 31 |
| November | 38 °C 100 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 of 30 |
| December | 33 °C 91 °F | 0 | 0 | 31 | 20 of 31 |
| Year | 46 | 7 | 254 | 51 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 51 warm, dry days
- 2024 51 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Niamey for good weather?
The best time to visit Niamey for warm, dry weather is December, with about 20 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December and January (up to 24 a month, 81 a year). Counted from measured days at Diori Hamani station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Niamey?
On average 46 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (16 rain days), the driest January (0).
How many sunny days does Niamey get a year?
About 254 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in December (31).
How warm does Niamey get?
The median daily high ranged from 33 °C (91 °F) in August to 43 °C (109 °F) in April.
Nearby
- Ouagadougou410 km, Burkina Faso52 days
- Abidjan1130 km, Côte d’Ivoire243 days
- Douala1350 km, Cameroon82 days
- N'Djamena1410 km, Chad70 days
Where is the best climate in Niger?
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Source: Diori Hamani weather station (61052099999), 9 km from the centre of Niamey, 223 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 86% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.