Climate and average weather in Yaloké

In Yaloké, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: early November to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yaloké typically varies from 19°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 16°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 Yaloké for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid August and early November to late January.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Aug
20°
Wettest
Sep
215 mm
Driest
Jan
4 mm
Rain / yr
1306 mm
194 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
720 m
5.3°N
Clearest
Dec
50% cloud

Yaloké is human settlement in the Central African Republic.

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

Yaloké 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 November to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Yaloké 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 20°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 20°C and high of 28°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)
Jan3319
Feb3420
Mar3322
Apr3122
May3021
Jun2921
Jul2820
Aug2820
Sep2820
Oct2920
Nov3120
Dec3219

How hot and cold Yaloké 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, Yaloké feels like about 34°C (around March 28). About 162 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331919
Feb34342020
Mar34332222
Apr34312222
May32302121
Jun31292121
Jul29282020
Aug29282020
Sep30282020
Oct31292020
Nov32312020
Dec32321919

Average hourly temperature in Yaloké

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 20°C.

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

Yaloké 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° / 19°40.911.74.4
Feb34° / 20°143.411.83.5
Mar33° / 22°7413123.2
Apr31° / 22°12318.912.13.4
May30° / 21°1332012.23.8
Jun29° / 21°11420.712.34.1
Jul28° / 20°14924.112.34.2
Aug28° / 20°19827.112.23.8
Sep28° / 20°21527123.3
Oct29° / 20°21026.711.93.3
Nov31° / 20°6610.711.84.4
Dec32° / 19°61.211.74.8

Chance of rain

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

Yaloké gets about 1306 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 7.3 months, from around Mar 31 to Nov 7, peaking in August at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 6.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 215 mm over about 27 wet days; January is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 26 · 91%Jan 6 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan31
Feb133
Mar4313
Apr6119
May6520
Jun6921
Jul7824
Aug8727
Sep9127
Oct8427
Nov3711
Dec41

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yaloké collects about 1306 mm of rain across 194 wet days — roughly 109 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 215 mm, while January is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 48% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec41474123133114149198215210666
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan41
Feb143
Mar7413
Apr12319
May13320
Jun11421
Jul14924
Aug19827
Sep21527
Oct21027
Nov6611
Dec61

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yaloké, 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 6 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around March 8. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 26 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around November 5. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 87% 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 · 63%Aug 29 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5446
Feb4753
Mar3367
Apr3169
May3664
Jun3862
Jul2278
Aug1387
Sep1585
Oct2179
Nov4258
Dec6040

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, Yaloké 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)
Jan11.76:095:53
Feb11.86:116:01
Mar12.06:026:00
Apr12.15:485:55
May12.25:415:55
Jun12.35:436:01
Jul12.35:496:06
Aug12.25:506:01
Sep12.05:455:47
Oct11.95:405:33
Nov11.85:445:29
Dec11.75:575:39

Sunny days

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

Yaloké 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 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Nov 11 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2813 daysAug 300 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar4Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
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 Yaloké, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.4 months, from around March 9 to November 20. 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 November 21 to March 8, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 83% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 91%Apr 8 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggydrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan7491160
Feb471117241
Mar94126411
Apr0016930
May0006733
Jun0008614
Jul000973
Aug000982
Sep000973
Oct001936
Nov51015683
Dec551317150

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 Yaloké is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Nov 28 to May 8. The windiest month is January, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 9 to Nov 27, with October the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 7 · 10 km/hOct 10 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Yaloké

In seasonPeak

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

Yaloké's rainy season runs April–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 Yaloké

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 2 · 4.8

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb3.5poor
Mar3.2poor
Apr3.4poor
May3.8fair
Jun4.1fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug3.7fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov4.4fair
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 Yaloké for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 23 · 7.9

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 Yaloké, 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 February (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Yaloké sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Yaloké 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 Yaloké peaks around March 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 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 highMar 19UV 14Dec 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Yaloké

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 8.5 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
Feb7.56
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May85.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Yaloké 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 Yaloké is worst in December — around 66 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.0× the cleanest month (September, 9 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateGoodModerateDec 2365 µg/m³Sep 1410 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan62Unhealthy
Feb50Poor
Mar38Poor
Apr23Moderate
May15Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug11Good
Sep9Good
Oct12Moderate
Nov22Moderate
Dec66Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Yaloké 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. Yaloké banks about 5,606 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)
Jan488
Feb476
Mar533
Apr495
May487
Jun442
Jul435
Aug432
Sep427
Oct454
Nov459
Dec479

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.

Yaloké receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.7 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Nov 18 to May 23. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.7 kWh/m² — roughly 24% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 86.3 kWhAug 24.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Yaloké?

Yaloké sits at 5.3°N, 17.1°E, 720 m above sea level, in Central African Republic. The nearest listed city is Bossembélé, 61 km away.

BoaliBaoroBossangoaBozoumCarnotBouarBobangui

Topography around Yaloké

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yaloké has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 73 m around an average of 708 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 143 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 410 m.

The land around Yaloké is covered by shrubs (44%) and grassland (30%) within 3 km, trees (68%) and shrubs (27%) within 16 km, and trees (75%) and shrubs (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
73 m
16 km
143 m
80 km
410 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Bossembélé 61 km · Boali 127 km · Baoro 131 km · Bossangoa 136 km · Bozoum 137 km · Carnot 142 km · Bouar 180 km · Bobangui 181 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 Yaloké (5.3195°, 17.1011°, elevation 720 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).