Climate and average weather in Damongo

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

Best: early December to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Damongo typically varies from 21°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 39°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
37°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
Aug
210 mm
Driest
Dec
1 mm
Rain / yr
1010 mm
148 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
219 m
9.1°N
Clearest
Dec
28% cloud

Damongo is capital of Savannah Region, Ghana.

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

Damongo 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 December to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Damongo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 37°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3421
Feb3623
Mar3725
Apr3525
May3424
Jun3223
Jul3023
Aug2923
Sep3023
Oct3223
Nov3422
Dec3421

How hot and cold Damongo 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, Damongo feels like about 41°C (around April 7). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 60 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)
Jan34342121
Feb36362323
Mar39372525
Apr40352525
May39342424
Jun36322323
Jul34302323
Aug33292323
Sep34302323
Oct37322323
Nov36342222
Dec34342121

Average hourly temperature in Damongo

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 March afternoons, near 37°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Damongo 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° / 21°40.711.54.0
Feb36° / 23°111.911.72.5
Mar37° / 25°336.611.91.8
Apr35° / 25°7112.912.22.1
May34° / 24°10016.312.42.6
Jun32° / 23°1101812.53.3
Jul30° / 23°15223.112.53.4
Aug29° / 23°21024.812.33.3
Sep30° / 23°20425.112.13.0
Oct32° / 23°10115.711.83.3
Nov34° / 22°142.711.63.4
Dec34° / 21°10.311.53.9

Chance of rain

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

Damongo gets about 1010 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.3 months, from around Apr 13 to Oct 20, peaking in September at about 87% 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 210 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 3 · 87%Jan 1 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan21
Feb82
Mar227
Apr4213
May5316
Jun6018
Jul7423
Aug8025
Sep8325
Oct4916
Nov103
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Damongo collects about 1010 mm of rain across 148 wet days — roughly 84 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 210 mm, while December is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4113371100110152210204101141
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan41
Feb112
Mar337
Apr7113
May10016
Jun11018
Jul15223
Aug21025
Sep20425
Oct10116
Nov143
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Damongo, 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 11 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around March 18. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 85% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 19 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around October 10. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 · 87%Aug 17 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb7327
Mar5149
Apr3565
May3169
Jun3070
Jul1585
Aug1090
Sep2377
Oct5347
Nov7525
Dec8515

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 23, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:316:02
Feb11.76:316:13
Mar11.96:196:15
Apr12.26:016:14
May12.45:516:16
Jun12.55:526:23
Jul12.55:586:27
Aug12.36:026:20
Sep12.16:006:03
Oct11.85:585:46
Nov11.66:055:40
Dec11.56:195:48

Sunny days

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

Damongo averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Oct 15 to Mar 15. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2523 daysAug 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan20Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar9Mixed
Apr5Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct10Mixed
Nov17Bright
Dec22Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.3 months, from around March 14 to November 21. 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 22 to March 13, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 87% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 3 · 92%Apr 13 · 0%miserablemuggyoppressivedryhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8165720
Feb566121890
Mar1441036350
Apr00115803
May00028513
Jun0000928
Jul0002953
Aug0003962
Sep0000937
Oct00148510
Nov891233391
Dec6010101640

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 Damongo is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 8.1 months, from around Dec 7 to Aug 9. The windiest month is January, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 10 to Dec 6, with September the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 6 · 8 km/hSep 21 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Damongo

In seasonPeak

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

Damongo's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Damongo sees seasonal dust haze (January–April), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Damongo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid December, Damongo 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 Damongo for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 4.4

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
Jan3.9fair
Feb2.6poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr2.1poor
May2.6poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.4poor
Dec3.9fair

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 Damongo for hot-weather activities is from late October to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 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 Damongo, 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 March (highs near 37°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Damongo sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Damongo 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 Damongo peaks around March 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 23UV 13Dec 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Damongo

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 September 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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec62.5

Air quality in Damongo 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 Damongo is worst in December — around 157 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 11.3× the cleanest month (August, 14 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateUnhealthyDec 18147 µg/m³Aug 1614 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan87Unhealthy
Feb74Unhealthy
Mar41Poor
Apr36Poor
May21Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov61Unhealthy
Dec157Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Damongo 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. Damongo banks about 6,567 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)
Jan533
Feb542
Mar644
Apr608
May589
Jun523
Jul509
Aug498
Sep494
Oct545
Nov546
Dec536

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.

Damongo receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Oct 18 to May 28. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.4 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 286.3 kWhAug 204.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr6.2Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul4.6Bright
Aug4.4Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Damongo?

Damongo sits at 9.1°N, 1.8°W, 219 m above sea level, in Ghana. The nearest listed city is Tamale, 113 km away.

TamaleKintampoSaveluguBounaWaBatiéWankyiSalaga

Topography around Damongo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Damongo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 137 m around an average of 204 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 188 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 401 m.

The land around Damongo is covered by cropland (42%) and grassland (26%) within 3 km, grassland (44%) and shrubs (43%) within 16 km, and shrubs (52%) and grassland (38%) within 80 km.

3 km
137 m
16 km
188 m
80 km
401 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Tamale 113 km · Kintampo 115 km · Savelugu 124 km · Bouna 131 km · Wa 132 km · Batié 150 km · Wankyi 153 km · Salaga 155 km

Ghana travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type D / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 38% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,257
2025
Happiness
4.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
43%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.8
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
25.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 540
Religion
Christian 71%Muslim 20%other 5%traditionalist 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 Damongo (9.083°, -1.8188°, elevation 219 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).