Climate and average weather in Djakotomé

In Djakotomé, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around June.

Best: late October to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Djakotomé typically varies from 22°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 36°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Djakotomé for warm-weather activities are from mid July to early September and late October to early February.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Jun
159 mm
Driest
Jan
13 mm
Rain / yr
1081 mm
195 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
136 m
6.9°N
Clearest
Dec
40% cloud

Djakotomé weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late October to early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Djakotomé, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Djakotomé stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3323
Feb3425
Mar3425
Apr3325
May3224
Jun3023
Jul2923
Aug2822
Sep2923
Oct3123
Nov3223
Dec3323

How hot and cold Djakotomé really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Djakotomé feels like about 40°C (around March 4). About 322 days a year carry some heat stress, and 78 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36332323
Feb39342525
Mar40342525
Apr40332525
May38322424
Jun34302323
Jul32292323
Aug31282222
Sep33292323
Oct35312323
Nov37322323
Dec37332323

Average hourly temperature in Djakotomé

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Djakotomé weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan33° / 23°133.611.63.9
Feb34° / 25°28711.83.0
Mar34° / 25°6013.8122.6
Apr33° / 25°9017.612.12.7
May32° / 24°13923.312.32.8
Jun30° / 23°15924.912.43.1
Jul29° / 23°13823.712.43.6
Aug28° / 22°13621.312.24.0
Sep29° / 23°15724.4123.3
Oct31° / 23°11621.211.83.4
Nov32° / 23°339.811.73.9
Dec33° / 23°14411.64.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Djakotomé gets about 1081 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.6 months, from around Apr 11 to Oct 29, peaking in June at about 84% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 27.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 159 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 13 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 6 · 84%Dec 27 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb267
Mar4514
Apr5718
May7523
Jun8325
Jul7624
Aug6921
Sep8124
Oct6721
Nov3410
Dec134

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Djakotomé collects about 1081 mm of rain across 195 wet days — roughly 90 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 159 mm, while January is the driest at just 13 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 42% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec132860901391591381361571163314
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan134
Feb287
Mar6014
Apr9018
May13923
Jun15925
Jul13824
Aug13621
Sep15724
Oct11621
Nov3310
Dec144

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Djakotomé, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 25 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around March 20. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 21 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around October 24. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 96% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 23 · 82%Jul 29 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6733
Feb5743
Mar3763
Apr2674
May1783
Jun1288
Jul694
Aug496
Sep991
Oct2575
Nov5941
Dec7723

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 26, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.67:136:52
Feb11.87:147:01
Mar12.07:047:01
Apr12.16:496:58
May12.36:406:59
Jun12.46:417:05
Jul12.46:487:10
Aug12.26:507:04
Sep12.06:466:49
Oct11.86:436:34
Nov11.76:486:29
Dec11.67:016:37

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Djakotomé averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Nov 1 to Mar 8. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 17 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 0 sunny days — about 100% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2419 daysJul 50 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov10Mixed
Dec17Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Djakotomé, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.6 months, from around February 21 to December 9. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 10 to February 20, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 15% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 10 · 19%Mar 24 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggydrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan115616575
Feb22496419
Mar00126037
Apr00004753
May00004951
Jun00008317
Jul0003951
Aug0009910
Sep0000981
Oct00008911
Nov00027621
Dec32513679

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Djakotomé is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeAug 2 · 9 km/hOct 17 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Djakotomé

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Djakotomé's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Djakotomé sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

Rainy season
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Djakotomé

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Djakotomé throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late October, Djakotomé is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Djakotomé for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July to early September and again from late October to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 25 · 4.3

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.9fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.6poor
Apr2.7poor
May2.8poor
Jun3.1poor
Jul3.7fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov3.9fair
Dec4.2fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Djakotomé for hot-weather activities is from mid November to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 27 · 7.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Djakotomé, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Djakotomé packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Djakotomé sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Djakotomé by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Djakotomé peaks around April 9 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeExtremeVery highApr 9UV 13Dec 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Very high
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Djakotomé

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Djakotomé by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Djakotomé is worst in January — around 111 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.0× the cleanest month (August, 28 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 14109 µg/m³Aug 1228 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan111Unhealthy
Feb87Unhealthy
Mar49Poor
Apr48Poor
May37Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug28Moderate
Sep33Moderate
Oct46Poor
Nov52Poor
Dec99Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Djakotomé is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Djakotomé banks about 6,391 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan567
Feb545
Mar603
Apr564
May552
Jun496
Jul488
Aug478
Sep481
Oct520
Nov533
Dec562

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Djakotomé receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 5.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Oct 30 to May 20. The brightest month is March, averaging about 5.6 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.9 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 55.6 kWhAug 103.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.6Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.0Bright
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep4.2Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Djakotomé?

Djakotomé sits at 6.9°N, 1.7°E, 136 m above sea level, in Benin. The nearest listed city is Aplahoué, 5.0 km away.

TabligboAbomey

Topography around Djakotomé

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Djakotomé.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Djakotomé has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 90 m around an average of 136 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 226 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 375 m.

The land around Djakotomé is covered by shrubs (39%), cropland (22%) and trees (21%) within 3 km, trees (37%), shrubs (22%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (37%) and shrubs (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
90 m
16 km
226 m
80 km
375 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Aplahoué 5.0 km · Dogbo 13 km · Toviklin 13 km · Klouékanmè 17 km · Lokossa 29 km · Athiémé 36 km · Tabligbo 42 km · Abomey 44 km

Benin travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,658
2025
Happiness
4.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
18%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2017
Road deaths
26.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 406
Religion
Muslim 28%Roman Catholic 26%Protestant 14%Vodoun 12%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Djakotomé (6.8991°, 1.7162°, elevation 136 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).