Borotou-Koro weather in May

In May, Borotou-Koro sees average daytime highs of 33°C and overnight lows near 23°C, with 134 mm of rain across 19.3 wet days and about 12.4 hours of daylight. It is the 7th-warmest and 5th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 33°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 8% 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 Borotou-Koro's 9th-clearest and 6th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Borotou-Koro's year-round climate.

Daytime high
33°
7th warmest
Overnight low
23°
10th coldest
Rainfall
134 mm
19.3 wet days
Daylight
12 h 24 min
6:13 AM – 6:37 PM
Cloud cover
73%
9th clearest
Wind
6 km/h
6th windiest
Solar energy
5.62 kWh/m²
Travel score
2.7
out of 10

Borotou-Koro is village in Woroba, Ivory Coast.

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 33°C through the month.

A typical May day in Borotou-Koro reaches about 33°C in the afternoon and slips back to 23°C overnight — a 10°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 31°C and 35°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 1°C cooler than April and about 2°C warmer than June.

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How May really feels in Borotou-Koro

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.

Borotou-Koro weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 7th-warmest and 5th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan34° / 19°102.111.63.8
Feb35° / 21°244.311.72.7
Mar35° / 23°6611.811.92.3
Apr34° / 23°10316.612.22.4
May33° / 23°13419.312.42.7
Jun31° / 22°14220.212.53.3
Jul30° / 22°17924.512.43.4
Aug29° / 22°22525.712.33.3
Sep30° / 22°22125.8122.9
Oct32° / 22°1282111.83.1
Nov33° / 21°387.911.63.7
Dec33° / 19°71.711.54.2

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 8% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 19% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 73%.

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

Any precipitation

Borotou-Koro gets around 134 mm of rain over 19.3 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 62% and peaks near 65% on the wettest days. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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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 97% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

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Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
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Wind in May

Winds average 6 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 6 km/h on the calmest days to 7 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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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 6:17 AM to 6:12 AM, and sunset from 6:35 PM to 6:40 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
112.36:176:35
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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 5.62 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.21 kWh/m² to a high of 5.99 kWh/m² in March across the year — May's 5.62 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Borotou-Koro

In seasonPeak

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

Borotou-Koro's monsoon runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Borotou-Koro 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 Borotou-Koro?

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

2.7
Sightseeing
9th-best month of the year
4.8
Beach & pool
9th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Borotou-Koro.

What to pack for Borotou-Koro in May

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

In May, Borotou-Koro sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 19 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Borotou-Koro in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 12 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Borotou-Koro peaks around March 19 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 19UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Air quality in Borotou-Koro 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 Borotou-Koro is worst in January — around 89 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 9.3× the cleanest month (August, 10 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateGoodModeratePoorJan 2489 µg/m³Aug 1810 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan89Unhealthy
Feb88Unhealthy
Mar50Poor
Apr40Poor
May22Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul12Good
Aug10Good
Sep11Good
Oct18Moderate
Nov24Moderate
Dec51Poor
Location & terrain

Where is Borotou-Koro?

Borotou-Koro sits at 8.5°N, 7.2°W, 291 m above sea level, in Ivory Coast. The nearest listed city is Touba, 60 km away.

ToubaSéguélaAncien-ProziBiankoumaVrouoDianraMankonoMignouré

Topography around Borotou-Koro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Borotou-Koro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 182 m around an average of 307 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 188 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 890 m.

The land around Borotou-Koro is covered by grassland (39%) and trees (28%) within 3 km, trees (47%), grassland (26%) and shrubs (24%) within 16 km, and trees (67%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
182 m
16 km
188 m
80 km
890 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
May weather nearby: Touba 60 km · Séguéla 81 km · Ancien-Prozi 94 km · Biankouma 96 km · Vrouo 112 km · Dianra 113 km · Mankono 119 km · Mignouré 120 km

Ivory Coast travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 37% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,050
2025
Happiness
5.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
36%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
24.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 393

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 Borotou-Koro (8.4911°, -7.1786°, elevation 291 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).