Climate and average weather in Boali

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

Best: mid May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Boali typically varies from 20°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 37°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 Boali for warm-weather activities are from mid May to late August and early November to late January.

Hottest
Feb
35°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Oct
189 mm
Driest
Jan
8 mm
Rain / yr
1123 mm
172 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
379 m
4.8°N
Clearest
Dec
52% cloud

Boali is human settlement.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Boali 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 mid May to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Boali stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 35°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°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 January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3420
Feb3522
Mar3424
Apr3323
May3223
Jun3123
Jul3022
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3022
Nov3222
Dec3321

How hot and cold Boali 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, Boali feels like about 38°C (around March 27). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34342020
Feb35352222
Mar37342324
Apr37332323
May36322323
Jun34312223
Jul33302222
Aug33292222
Sep33302222
Oct34302222
Nov35322222
Dec34332121

Average hourly temperature in Boali

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Boali 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
Jan34° / 20°81.511.83.5
Feb35° / 22°173.811.82.8
Mar34° / 24°7312122.8
Apr33° / 23°10715.312.13.1
May32° / 23°10216.612.23.5
Jun31° / 23°8315.212.34.0
Jul30° / 22°11219.512.33.9
Aug29° / 22°16323.612.23.5
Sep30° / 22°17524.3123.2
Oct30° / 22°18925.111.93.1
Nov32° / 22°8313.111.83.8
Dec33° / 21°111.911.74.1

Chance of rain

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

Boali gets about 1123 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 7.4 months, from around Apr 2 to Nov 13, peaking in August at about 83% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 26.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 189 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 29 · 83%Dec 26 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan52
Feb154
Mar3812
Apr5115
May5317
Jun5115
Jul6320
Aug7624
Sep8124
Oct8025
Nov4413
Dec72

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Boali collects about 1123 mm of rain across 172 wet days — roughly 94 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 189 mm, while January is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec81773107102831121631751898311
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan82
Feb174
Mar7312
Apr10715
May10217
Jun8315
Jul11220
Aug16324
Sep17524
Oct18925
Nov8313
Dec112

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Boali, 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 November 12 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around March 1. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 30 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around November 11. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 80% 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 19 · 62%Aug 26 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb4654
Mar3664
Apr3565
May4258
Jun4159
Jul3169
Aug2080
Sep2476
Oct2971
Nov4159
Dec5941

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. Close to the equator, Boali barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.86:045:49
Feb11.86:075:57
Mar12.05:585:56
Apr12.15:455:51
May12.25:375:50
Jun12.35:395:56
Jul12.35:466:01
Aug12.25:475:56
Sep12.05:415:43
Oct11.95:365:29
Nov11.85:395:26
Dec11.75:525:35

Sunny days

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

Boali averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Nov 14 to Mar 3. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 87% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 2113 daysAug 301 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar5Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
Dec12Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.0 months, from around March 4 to December 1. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 2 to March 3, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 62% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 8 · 69%Apr 3 · 0%humidoppressivemuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan481311225
Feb297103717
Mar4242962
Apr0001090
May000892
Jun0001783
Jul0002278
Aug0001288
Sep0001189
Oct0001288
Nov1252370
Dec2117143018

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 Boali is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Dec 5 to May 16. The windiest month is April, averaging about 7 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 17 to Dec 4, with September the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeApr 1 · 8 km/hSep 24 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Boali

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Boali

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid August, Boali 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 times of year to visit Boali for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to late August and again from early November to late January, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 10 · 4.2

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
Jan3.5poor
Feb2.8poor
Mar2.8poor
Apr3.1poor
May3.5poor
Jun4.0fair
Jul3.9fair
Aug3.5fair
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.8fair
Dec4.1fair

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 Boali 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 22 · 7.5

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 Boali, 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.

Boali packs about the same all year — highs hold near 35°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, Boali sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Boali 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 Boali peaks around March 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highMar 19UV 14Dec 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Boali

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86.5
Apr86
May85.5
Jun7.55
Jul7.55
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec74.5

Air quality in Boali 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 Boali is worst in January — around 79 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.9× the cleanest month (September, 10 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateGoodModerateUnhealthyJan 1278 µg/m³Sep 1510 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan79Unhealthy
Feb62Unhealthy
Mar39Poor
Apr23Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep10Good
Oct13Moderate
Nov26Moderate
Dec74Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Boali 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. Boali banks about 6,170 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan534
Feb519
Mar580
Apr541
May539
Jun497
Jul489
Aug483
Sep474
Oct495
Nov497
Dec521

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.

Boali receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.9 and 6.2 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 66.2 kWhAug 44.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.0Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov5.4Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Boali?

Boali sits at 4.8°N, 18.1°E, 379 m above sea level, in Central African Republic. The nearest listed city is Bégoua, 59 km away.

BobanguiMbaïkiYaloké

Topography around Boali

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Boali has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 32 m around an average of 381 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 353 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 412 m.

The land around Boali is covered by shrubs (37%), grassland (35%) and trees (28%) within 3 km, trees (66%) and shrubs (22%) within 16 km, and trees (73%) within 80 km.

3 km
32 m
16 km
353 m
80 km
412 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Bégoua 59 km · Bangui 68 km · Bimbo 68 km · Zongo 73 km · Bossembélé 74 km · Bobangui 83 km · Mbaïki 105 km · Yaloké 127 km

Central African Republic travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 42% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$556
2025
Happiness
3.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2019
Safe drinking water
6%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
20.1
per 100k, 2016
Road deaths
37.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank

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 Boali (4.8005°, 18.1275°, elevation 379 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).