Climate and average weather in Saonré

In Saonré, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Saonré typically varies from 18°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 41°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
199 mm
Driest
Dec
0 mm
Rain / yr
556 mm
82 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
310 m
12.3°N
Clearest
Jan
29% cloud

Saonré 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 Saonré, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from March 1 to May 22, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Saonré is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 2.4 months, from July 10 to September 21, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Saonré is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in November.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3218
Feb3521
Mar3825
Apr3827
May3727
Jun3425
Jul3124
Aug3023
Sep3123
Oct3424
Nov3521
Dec3318

How hot and cold Saonré 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, Saonré feels like about 41°C (around May 13). About 339 days a year carry some heat stress, and 53 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32321818
Feb35352121
Mar38382425
Apr39382727
May40372727
Jun38342525
Jul35312424
Aug34302323
Sep36312323
Oct37342424
Nov35352121
Dec33331818

Average hourly temperature in Saonré

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 April 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

Saonré 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
Jan32° / 18°00.111.45.4
Feb35° / 21°10.211.63.4
Mar38° / 25°20.711.91.4
Apr38° / 27°12312.30.9
May37° / 27°266.412.61.6
Jun34° / 25°521012.73.0
Jul31° / 24°12217.712.63.5
Aug30° / 23°19922.312.43.4
Sep31° / 23°10814.812.13.7
Oct34° / 24°336.111.73.3
Nov35° / 21°10.311.43.2
Dec33° / 18°0011.34.8

Chance of rain

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

Saonré gets about 556 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 4.9 months, from around May 18 to Oct 13, peaking in August at about 72% 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 199 mm over about 22 wet days; December is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 12 · 72%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar21
Apr103
May216
Jun3310
Jul5718
Aug7022
Sep5015
Oct196
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Saonré collects about 556 mm of rain across 82 wet days — roughly 46 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 199 mm, while December is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 77% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec012122652122199108331
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar21
Apr123
May266
Jun5210
Jul12218
Aug19922
Sep10815
Oct336
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Saonré, 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 September 25 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around March 19. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 81% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 28 and lasts for 2.9 months, ending around September 24. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 74% 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 27 · 84%Aug 15 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8119
Feb7822
Mar6436
Apr5248
May5446
Jun6436
Jul4060
Aug2674
Sep4852
Oct7030
Nov7525
Dec8020

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 29, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan11.46:355:56
Feb11.66:336:09
Mar11.96:196:13
Apr12.35:586:15
May12.65:466:19
Jun12.75:456:28
Jul12.65:526:32
Aug12.45:586:23
Sep12.15:596:03
Oct11.76:005:43
Nov11.46:095:34
Dec11.36:245:41

Sunny days

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

Saonré averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Sep 28 to Mar 19. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the January peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJan 3122 daysAug 112 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul5Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct16Bright
Nov18Bright
Dec20Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around April 13 to November 1. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 2 to April 12, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 1 · 100%May 22 · 0%comfortablehumiddryoppressivemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9900000
Feb9621000
Mar7989400
Apr2810223550
May11751390
Jun00017821
Jul0003970
Aug0000991
Sep0001954
Oct54822592
Nov691110820
Dec9811000

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 Saonré is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.6 months, from around Dec 2 to Mar 22. The windiest month is February, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 23 to Dec 1, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 4 · 11 km/hSep 15 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Saonré

In seasonPeak

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

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

Saonré sees seasonal dust haze (February–June), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Saonré

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Saonré is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 time of year to visit Saonré for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 5.8

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
Jan5.3fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar1.5poor
Apr0.9poor
May1.7poor
Jun3.0poor
Jul3.5poor
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.2poor
Dec4.8fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 8.6

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 Saonré, 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 April (highs near 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Saonré sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Saonré 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 Saonré peaks around March 16 at about 14 (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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 16UV 14Dec 15UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Saonré

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 6.5 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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86.5
Apr85.5
May86
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Saonré 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 Saonré is worst in February — around 78 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.0× the cleanest month (August, 16 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1977 µg/m³Aug 1116 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan66Unhealthy
Feb78Unhealthy
Mar74Unhealthy
Apr54Poor
May29Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct35Moderate
Nov52Poor
Dec59Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Saonré 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. Saonré banks about 6,762 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)
Jan466
Feb501
Mar654
Apr683
May684
Jun591
Jul547
Aug518
Sep521
Oct585
Nov533
Dec480

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.

Saonré receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.1 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around Feb 1 to Jul 2. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 276.8 kWhAug 165.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.7Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun6.4Intense
Jul5.6Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.0Intense
Nov6.0Intense
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Saonré?

Saonré sits at 12.3°N, 1.6°W, 310 m above sea level, in Burkina Faso. The nearest listed city is Zinguédéssé, 3.0 km away.

Kindi

Topography around Saonré

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Saonré has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 33 m around an average of 313 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 85 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 184 m.

The land around Saonré is covered by artificial surfaces (57%) within 3 km, grassland (32%), artificial surfaces (29%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (42%), grassland (31%) and shrubs (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
33 m
16 km
85 m
80 km
184 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Zinguédéssé 3.0 km · Ouagadougou 11 km · Nioko I 20 km · Saaba 21 km · Kokologo 34 km · Kombissiri 35 km · Ziniaré 46 km · Kindi 53 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 Saonré (12.2751°, -1.5769°, elevation 310 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).