Kissidougou weather in May

In May, Kissidougou sees average daytime highs of 30°C and overnight lows near 22°C, with 205 mm of rain across 23.8 wet days and about 12.4 hours of daylight. It is the 6th-warmest and 6th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 2% of the time in May, and the air most often feels oppressive.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 18 min at the start of May to 12 h 30 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Kissidougou's 9th-clearest and 5th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Kissidougou's year-round climate.

Daytime high
30°
6th warmest
Overnight low
22°
10th coldest
Rainfall
205 mm
23.8 wet days
Daylight
12 h 24 min
6:24 AM – 6:49 PM
Cloud cover
81%
9th clearest
Wind
8 km/h
5th windiest
Solar energy
4.98 kWh/m²
Travel score
3.1
out of 10

Kissidougou is city in southern Guinea, capital of Kissidougou Prefecture.

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

Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month.

A typical May day in Kissidougou reaches about 30°C in the afternoon and slips back to 22°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 28°C and 32°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 2°C cooler than April and about 1°C warmer than June.

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How May really feels in Kissidougou

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in May is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Kissidougou weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 6th-warmest and 6th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan33° / 19°91.911.54.6
Feb34° / 21°142.511.73.5
Mar34° / 23°639.711.93.0
Apr32° / 23°11116.512.23.1
May30° / 22°20523.812.43.1
Jun29° / 21°24626.612.53.2
Jul28° / 21°26527.312.53.6
Aug27° / 21°28527.512.33.7
Sep28° / 21°32327.812.13.2
Oct30° / 21°30627.711.83.1
Nov30° / 20°9210.811.64.6
Dec32° / 19°81.711.55.2

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 2% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 11% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 87%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
12278
21981
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Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Kissidougou gets around 205 mm of rain over 23.8 wet days in May. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 78% and peaks near 84% on the wettest days. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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268
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3184

Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of May feels oppressive — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, May lands in the oppressive band about 94% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

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Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
1892
2793
3694
4694
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6595
7496
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301387
311486

Wind in May

Winds average 8 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 7 km/h on the calmest days to 8 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
18calm
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Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 18 min at the start of May to 12 h 30 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 12 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 6:28 AM to 6:23 AM, and sunset from 6:47 PM to 6:53 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
112.36:286:47
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312.36:276:47
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512.36:276:48
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Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 4.98 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 3.82 kWh/m² to a high of 6.01 kWh/m² in February across the year — May's 4.98 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Kissidougou

In seasonPeak

In May, Kissidougou sits inside its monsoon season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

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

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

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

Is May a good time to visit Kissidougou?

Our two travel scores rate May for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

3.1
Sightseeing
9th-best month of the year
4.4
Beach & pool
7th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Kissidougou.

What to pack for Kissidougou in May

From May's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In May, Kissidougou sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 24 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Kissidougou in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 13 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kissidougou peaks around August 23 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 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 highAug 23UV 13Dec 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Air quality in Kissidougou in May

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where May falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Kissidougou is worst in March — around 200 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 23.5× the cleanest month (August, 9 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150180210JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyVery unhealthyModerateGoodModeratePoorMar 13192 µg/m³Aug 169 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan100Unhealthy
Feb158Very unhealthy
Mar200Very unhealthy
Apr59Unhealthy
May23Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul11Good
Aug9Good
Sep11Good
Oct19Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec51Poor
Location & terrain

Where is Kissidougou?

Kissidougou sits at 9.2°N, 10.1°W, 530 m above sea level, in Guinea. The nearest listed city is Yende Millimou, 34 km away.

DouakoGueckedouFoya KamaraVoinjamaMacentaKoidu

Topography around Kissidougou

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kissidougou has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 47 m around an average of 521 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 281 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,129 m.

The land around Kissidougou is covered by grassland (39%) and artificial surfaces (37%) within 3 km, trees (57%) and grassland (27%) within 16 km, and trees (67%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
47 m
16 km
281 m
80 km
1,129 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
May weather nearby: Yende Millimou 34 km · Albadéria 41 km · Douako 62 km · Gueckedou 69 km · Foya Kamara 92 km · Voinjama 93 km · Macenta 99 km · Koidu 113 km

Guinea travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F / K
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,877
2025
Happiness
4.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths
29.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 85%Christian 13%none 1%animist 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 Kissidougou (9.1848°, -10.0999°, elevation 530 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).