Best time to visit Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is represented here by Ouagadougou (12.4°, -1.5°). The NASA POWER daily series for 2001–2020 gives that city a monsoon climate with a sharp wet-dry split, 818 mm of rain a year, and a 8.7°C swing between the coolest and warmest monthly averages.

Every city we list in Burkina Faso falls in a monsoon climate with a sharp wet-dry split.

Climate in Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou is hottest in April (average 32.7°C) and coolest in January (24.0°C). The monsoon runs June–September.

Open the Ouagadougou page for the month-by-month table, the temperature–rainfall chart, and the scoring notes.

Best months by region

Ouagadougou: typical hottest-month average 32.7°C and about 818 mm of rain a year. Best-scoring months — Ouagadougou (November, December, and January).

Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou sits at 12.37°, -1.53°. It is a monsoon climate with a sharp wet-dry split. April is the warmest month at 32.7°C (high 39.9°C); January is the coolest at 24.0°C (low 15.1°C). The gap between those monthly averages is 8.7°C.

The monsoon runs from June to September. The three highest-scoring months for a visit are November, December, and January. That ranking uses the same 22°C / low-rain / 60% humidity score as the city pages. Population in the GeoNames record is 2,415,266. The wettest month is August (245 mm, 29 days with at least 1 mm); the driest is December (0 mm).