Climate and average weather in Nema Kunku

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

Best: late November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Nema Kunku typically varies from 19°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 40°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 Nema Kunku for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and late November to late December.

Hottest
Apr
37°
Coldest
Aug
25°
Wettest
Aug
297 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
805 mm
86 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
18 m
13.3°N
Clearest
Mar
27% cloud

Nema Kunku 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 late November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Nema Kunku stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 37°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 25°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3319
Feb3520
Mar3721
Apr3722
May3623
Jun3525
Jul3225
Aug3125
Sep3124
Oct3324
Nov3422
Dec3319

How hot and cold Nema Kunku 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, Nema Kunku feels like about 41°C (around October 19). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 100 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in October.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331819
Feb35352020
Mar36372121
Apr37372222
May39362323
Jun40352525
Jul39322525
Aug38312425
Sep39312424
Oct41332424
Nov36342222
Dec33331919

Average hourly temperature in Nema Kunku

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 37°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 25°C.

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

Nema Kunku 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°10.211.34.7
Feb35° / 20°10.111.63.5
Mar37° / 21°0011.92.3
Apr37° / 22°0012.32.0
May36° / 23°20.412.62.4
Jun35° / 25°304.812.82.9
Jul32° / 25°1842012.73.0
Aug31° / 25°29725.912.42.8
Sep31° / 24°2172212.12.9
Oct33° / 24°6811.711.73.3
Nov34° / 22°4111.43.6
Dec33° / 19°20.211.24.5

Chance of rain

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

Nema Kunku gets about 805 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 4.2 months, from around Jun 22 to Oct 26, peaking in August at about 85% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 297 mm over about 26 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 24 · 85%Jan 25 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May20
Jun185
Jul6320
Aug8326
Sep7222
Oct3812
Nov41
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Nema Kunku collects about 805 mm of rain across 86 wet days — roughly 67 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 297 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 87% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1102301842972176842
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May20
Jun305
Jul18420
Aug29726
Sep21722
Oct6812
Nov41
Dec20

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Nema Kunku, 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 15 and lasts for 7.8 months, ending around June 9. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 10 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around October 14. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 31 · 85%Aug 24 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6733
Feb7327
Mar8218
Apr8119
May7525
Jun5149
Jul2377
Aug1288
Sep2476
Oct5446
Nov6139
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. The longest day, around June 7, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.37:346:52
Feb11.67:317:05
Mar11.97:167:10
Apr12.36:557:13
May12.66:417:18
Jun12.86:407:27
Jul12.76:487:30
Aug12.46:547:21
Sep12.16:567:00
Oct11.76:586:40
Nov11.47:076:30
Dec11.27:236:36

Sunny days

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

Nema Kunku averages about 12 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 7.6 months, from around Oct 21 to Jun 8. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the April peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantApr 222 daysAug 220 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr21Bright
May19Bright
Jun10Mixed
Jul2Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct11Mixed
Nov13Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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 Nema Kunku, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around April 23 to November 21. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 22 to April 22, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 95% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 14 · 97%Jun 2 · 0%miserableoppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan82134100
Feb75169100
Mar473117500
Apr1131352210
May162351190
Jun001176715
Jul00013465
Aug00001684
Sep00001189
Oct00131779
Nov81620222313
Dec562312810

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 Nema Kunku is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Dec 6 to Jul 2. The windiest month is February, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 3 to Dec 5, with October the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 12 · 11 km/hOct 17 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr11calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Nema Kunku

In seasonPeak

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

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

Nema Kunku sees seasonal dust haze (February–August), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Nema Kunku

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early December, Nema Kunku is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Nema Kunku for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 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
Jan4.6fair
Feb3.5poor
Mar2.4poor
Apr2.0poor
May2.4poor
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.6fair
Dec4.5fair

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 Nema Kunku for hot-weather activities is from late October to early March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 15 · 8.0

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 Nema Kunku, 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 37°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 31°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Nema Kunku sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Nema Kunku 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 Nema Kunku peaks around March 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 18UV 13Dec 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Nema Kunku

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)
Jan6.54
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov6.54
Dec6.53

Air quality in Nema Kunku 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 Nema Kunku is worst in February — around 99 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.4× the cleanest month (August, 23 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1697 µg/m³Aug 1924 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan77Unhealthy
Feb99Unhealthy
Mar83Unhealthy
Apr65Unhealthy
May56Unhealthy
Jun58Unhealthy
Jul34Moderate
Aug23Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct47Poor
Nov55Poor
Dec71Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Nema Kunku 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. Nema Kunku banks about 6,597 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan482
Feb480
Mar579
Apr582
May611
Jun594
Jul569
Aug546
Sep537
Oct581
Nov540
Dec496

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.

Nema Kunku receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Feb 1 to Jun 24. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 40% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 297.2 kWhAug 244.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun6.2Intense
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.3Bright
Sep4.6Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.6Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Nema Kunku?

Nema Kunku sits at 13.3°N, 15.9°W, 18 m above sea level, in Gambia. The nearest listed city is Soma, 43 km away.

SomaFarafenniNioro du RipLaminBanjul

Topography around Nema Kunku

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nema Kunku has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 35 m around an average of 13 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 49 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 60 m.

The land around Nema Kunku is covered by shrubs (47%) within 3 km, shrubs (53%) and trees (25%) within 16 km, and cropland (28%), shrubs (27%) and trees (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
35 m
16 km
49 m
80 km
60 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Soma 43 km · Farafenni 47 km · Nioro du Rip 56 km · Lamin 61 km · Bignona 61 km · Sédhiou 70 km · Goudomp 75 km · Banjul 78 km

Gambia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 25% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$919
2025
Happiness
4.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
48%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
29.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 96%Christian 4%other or none 0%

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 Nema Kunku (13.25°, -15.8833°, elevation 18 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).