Ideal weather days in Ouagadougou
The best time to visit Ouagadougou for warm, dry weather is August, with about 13 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Ouagadougou's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Ouagadougou, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot284
- Too wet51
- Too windy0
- 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), Ouagadougou averaged 52 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Burkina Faso, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December (up to 22 a month, 80 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): 284 a year, mostly in October to June. Another 51 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in July, August and September. A day can fail more than one test.
Ouagadougou weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35 °C 94 °F | 0 | 0 | 30 | 9 of 31 |
| February | 38 °C 100 °F | 0 | 0 | 28 | 1 of 28 |
| March | 41 °C 106 °F | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 41 °C 106 °F | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 40 °C 103 °F | 6 | 0 | 22 | 0 of 31 |
| June | 38 °C 100 °F | 5 | 0 | 13 | 1 of 30 |
| July | 34 °C 92 °F | 12 | 0 | 2 | 6 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 90 °F | 15 | 0 | 0 | 13 of 31 |
| September | 34 °C 92 °F | 10 | 0 | 4 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 36 °C 97 °F | 7 | 0 | 20 | 1 of 31 |
| November | 37 °C 99 °F | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2 of 30 |
| December | 34 °C 93 °F | 0 | 0 | 31 | 10 of 31 |
| Year | 57 | 0 | 228 | 52 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 43 warm, dry days
- 2024 60 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Ouagadougou for good weather?
The best time to visit Ouagadougou for warm, dry weather is August, with about 13 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in December (up to 22 a month, 80 a year). Counted from measured days at Ouagadougou station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Ouagadougou?
On average 57 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (15 rain days), the driest January (0).
How many sunny days does Ouagadougou get a year?
About 228 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 Ouagadougou get?
The median daily high ranged from 32 °C (90 °F) in August to 41 °C (106 °F) in March.
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Source: Ouagadougou weather station (65503099999), 2 km from the centre of Ouagadougou, 316 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.