Climate and average weather in Cinkansé

In Cinkansé, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cinkansé typically varies from 20°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 40°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Cinkansé for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and early December to late December.

Hottest
Mar
38°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
220 mm
Driest
Dec
0 mm
Rain / yr
752 mm
105 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
259 m
11.1°N
Clearest
Dec
27% cloud

Cinkansé 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 early January to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.5 months, from February 17 to May 4, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Cinkansé is March, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 2.7 months, from July 6 to September 26, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Cinkansé is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in December.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3320
Feb3623
Mar3826
Apr3727
May3526
Jun3325
Jul3023
Aug2923
Sep3023
Oct3323
Nov3521
Dec3420

How hot and cold Cinkansé 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, Cinkansé feels like about 41°C (around April 26). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 54 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33332020
Feb36362323
Mar38382626
Apr40372727
May40352626
Jun37332525
Jul34302323
Aug33292323
Sep34302323
Oct37332323
Nov35352121
Dec33342020

Average hourly temperature in Cinkansé

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 March afternoons, near 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Cinkansé 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° / 20°0011.44.5
Feb36° / 23°20.311.62.7
Mar38° / 26°91.811.91.3
Apr37° / 27°336.112.21.4
May35° / 26°6211.612.52.4
Jun33° / 25°7312.112.63.5
Jul30° / 23°14319.912.63.7
Aug29° / 23°22025.112.43.4
Sep30° / 23°15618.512.13.8
Oct33° / 23°529.411.83.8
Nov35° / 21°30.611.53.4
Dec34° / 20°0011.44.3

Chance of rain

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

Cinkansé gets about 752 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around Apr 27 to Oct 17, peaking in August at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 220 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 20 · 82%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar62
Apr206
May3612
Jun4112
Jul6320
Aug8025
Sep6219
Oct299
Nov31
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cinkansé collects about 752 mm of rain across 105 wet days — roughly 63 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 220 mm, while December is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 69% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec029336273143220156523
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb20
Mar92
Apr336
May6212
Jun7312
Jul14320
Aug22025
Sep15619
Oct529
Nov31
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cinkansé, 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 7 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around March 26. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 27 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around October 6. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 26 · 85%Aug 19 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb7822
Mar6040
Apr4654
May4357
Jun4357
Jul2575
Aug1585
Sep3169
Oct6238
Nov7624
Dec8317

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 June 19, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.46:275:52
Feb11.66:266:04
Mar11.96:126:07
Apr12.25:536:08
May12.55:416:11
Jun12.65:416:20
Jul12.65:486:23
Aug12.45:536:15
Sep12.15:525:56
Oct11.85:535:37
Nov11.56:015:30
Dec11.46:165:37

Sunny days

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

Cinkansé averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Oct 11 to Mar 24. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2722 daysAug 120 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct12Mixed
Nov18Bright
Dec21Bright

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 Cinkansé, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around April 1 to November 7. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 8 to March 31, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 5 · 100%May 3 · 0%miserablehumidmuggycomfortabledryoppressivecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9811100
Feb8844500
Mar519152050
Apr841038410
May00012862
Jun0004924
Jul0001982
Aug0000982
Sep00009010
Oct12397510
Nov43131320120
Dec9242100

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Cinkansé is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 2.9 months, from around Dec 9 to Mar 5. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 31 to Dec 8, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJan 6 · 11 km/hSep 19 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar9calm
Apr10calm
May11calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Cinkansé

In seasonPeak

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

Cinkansé's monsoon runs July–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Cinkansé sees seasonal dust haze (January–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Cinkansé

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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 Cinkansé for general outdoor tourist activities run from late September to mid October and again from early December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 4.9

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb2.7poor
Mar1.3poor
Apr1.4poor
May2.4poor
Jun3.4poor
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.4poor
Dec4.3fair

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 Cinkansé for hot-weather activities is from late October to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 3 · 8.3

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 Cinkansé, 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.

For a warm-season trip around March (highs near 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Cinkansé sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Cinkansé 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 Cinkansé peaks around March 17 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 10 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 highExtremeVery highMar 17UV 13Dec 10UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Cinkansé

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 March 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
Feb7.56
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74
Dec6.54

Air quality in Cinkansé 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 Cinkansé is worst in February — around 77 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.1× the cleanest month (August, 15 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1575 µg/m³Aug 1015 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan65Unhealthy
Feb77Unhealthy
Mar65Unhealthy
Apr46Poor
May25Moderate
Jun20Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep20Moderate
Oct32Moderate
Nov57Unhealthy
Dec64Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cinkansé 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. Cinkansé banks about 6,723 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan521
Feb546
Mar678
Apr665
May637
Jun556
Jul520
Aug496
Sep494
Oct553
Nov539
Dec519

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.

Cinkansé receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.9 months, from around Oct 14 to Jun 9. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 286.6 kWhAug 184.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.4Intense
Mar6.6Intense
Apr6.5Intense
May6.3Intense
Jun5.7Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.0Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Cinkansé?

Cinkansé sits at 11.1°N, 0.0°E, 259 m above sea level, in Burkina Faso. The nearest listed city is Sinkassé, 2.0 km away.

ZabréNaleriguKompiengaNatiaboani

Topography around Cinkansé

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cinkansé has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 57 m around an average of 265 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 134 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 395 m.

The land around Cinkansé is covered by cropland (48%) and artificial surfaces (35%) within 3 km, cropland (82%) within 16 km, and cropland (59%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
57 m
16 km
134 m
80 km
395 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Sinkassé 2.0 km · Bawku 28 km · Dapaong 36 km · Bittou 38 km · Zabré 70 km · Nalerigu 78 km · Kompienga 78 km · Natiaboani 84 km

Burkina Faso travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 37% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,148
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
1.3
per 100k, 2017
Road deaths
31
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 64%Roman Catholic 20%Animiste 9%Protestant 6%

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 Cinkansé (11.1186°, 0.0099°, elevation 259 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).