Climate and average weather in Mandelia

In Mandelia, 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 Mandelia typically varies from 16°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 44°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 Mandelia for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and mid December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
41°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
Aug
196 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
486 mm
75 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
302 m
11.7°N
Clearest
Dec
28% cloud

Mandelia is sub-prefecture in Chad.

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

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

The hot season lasts 2.8 months, from March 7 to May 29, with daily high temperatures above 39°C. The hottest month of the year in Mandelia is April, with an average high of 41°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 2.1 months, from July 17 to September 18, with daily high temperatures below 33°C. The coldest month of the year in Mandelia is August, with an average low of 24°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in January.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3316
Feb3619
Mar4024
Apr4127
May4028
Jun3727
Jul3325
Aug3124
Sep3324
Oct3624
Nov3621
Dec3317

How hot and cold Mandelia 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, Mandelia feels like about 41°C (around April 9). About 356 days a year carry some heat stress, and 114 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)
Jan33331616
Feb36361919
Mar40402424
Apr41412727
May41402828
Jun41372627
Jul37332525
Aug35312324
Sep37332424
Oct38362424
Nov36362121
Dec33331717

Average hourly temperature in Mandelia

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 24°C.

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

Mandelia 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° / 16°0011.44.7
Feb36° / 19°0011.62.7
Mar40° / 24°0011.90.4
Apr41° / 27°41.312.30.0
May40° / 28°205.712.50.2
Jun37° / 27°378.912.71.5
Jul33° / 25°11417.112.62.8
Aug31° / 24°19623.112.43.2
Sep33° / 24°9614.812.13.3
Oct36° / 24°194.211.72.3
Nov36° / 21°00.111.52.5
Dec33° / 17°0011.34.3

Chance of rain

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

Mandelia gets about 486 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 4.6 months, from around May 21 to Oct 8, peaking in August at about 76% 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 196 mm over about 23 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 11 · 76%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr51
May186
Jun319
Jul5517
Aug7323
Sep4915
Oct144
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mandelia collects about 486 mm of rain across 75 wet days — roughly 41 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 196 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 83% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4203711419696190
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr41
May206
Jun379
Jul11417
Aug19623
Sep9615
Oct194
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mandelia, 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 4 and lasts for 8.6 months, ending around June 21. The clearest month is December, 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 22 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around October 3. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% 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 18 · 84%Aug 11 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7723
Feb7426
Mar6832
Apr6634
May6634
Jun6535
Jul3961
Aug2575
Sep4654
Oct6832
Nov7327
Dec8119

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 4, 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)
Jan11.46:275:50
Feb11.66:256:02
Mar11.96:116:06
Apr12.35:516:07
May12.55:396:11
Jun12.75:396:20
Jul12.65:466:23
Aug12.45:516:15
Sep12.15:515:55
Oct11.75:525:36
Nov11.56:015:28
Dec11.36:165:35

Sunny days

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

Mandelia averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 8.1 months, from around Oct 9 to Jun 12. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 92% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2121 daysAug 121 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar15Bright
Apr14Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul5Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct15Mixed
Nov17Bright
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 Mandelia, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around April 29 to October 23. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 24 to April 28, and March 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 7 · 100%Jun 29 · 0%miserablehumiddrycomfortableoppressivemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9811000
Apr641215800
May18112436110
Jun12852370
Jul00013851
Aug00009010
Sep00028116
Oct277818373
Nov9133210
Dec10000000

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 Mandelia is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around Nov 6 to Apr 19. The windiest month is March, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 20 to Nov 5, with September the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 4 · 13 km/hSep 5 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr11calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov11calm
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Mandelia

In seasonPeak

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

Mandelia sees seasonal dust haze (January–July), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Mandelia

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Mandelia 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 time of year to visit Mandelia for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDectravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 3 · 5.2

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
Jan4.7fair
Feb2.7poor
Mar0.5poor
Apr0.0poor
May0.2poor
Jun1.5poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct2.3poor
Nov2.5poor
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 Mandelia for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 8.4

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 Mandelia, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 31°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Mandelia sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Mandelia 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 Mandelia peaks around March 16 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 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 highExtremeVery highMar 16UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May9Very high
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Mandelia

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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr85.5
May7.55
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep7.55.5
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Mandelia 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 Mandelia is worst in February — around 98 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.4× the cleanest month (August, 22 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1797 µg/m³Aug 1522 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan91Unhealthy
Feb98Unhealthy
Mar94Unhealthy
Apr66Unhealthy
May40Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep24Moderate
Oct42Poor
Nov53Poor
Dec83Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mandelia 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. Mandelia banks about 7,019 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)
Jan452
Feb493
Mar669
Apr721
May735
Jun653
Jul581
Aug531
Sep545
Oct614
Nov552
Dec474

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.

Mandelia receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.1 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Jan 24 to Jun 16. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 317.2 kWhAug 115.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar7.1Intense
Apr7.1Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul5.6Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.1Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Mandelia?

Mandelia sits at 11.7°N, 15.2°E, 302 m above sea level, in Chad. The nearest listed city is Kousséri, 45 km away.

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Topography around Mandelia

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mandelia has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5 m around an average of 299 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 14 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 56 m.

The land around Mandelia is covered by grassland (77%) within 3 km, grassland (63%) within 16 km, and grassland (63%) within 80 km.

3 km
5 m
16 km
14 m
80 km
56 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Kousséri 45 km · N'Djamena 47 km · Dourbali 68 km · Massaguet 85 km · Guelendeng 96 km · Maga 104 km · Bogo 131 km · Gamboru 134 km

Chad travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / D / E / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,022
2025
Happiness
4.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
6%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
32.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 52%Protestant 24%Roman Catholic 20%none 3%

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 Mandelia (11.7302°, 15.2447°, elevation 302 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).