Climate and average weather in Katiola

In Katiola, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: early June to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Katiola typically varies from 20°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 38°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
35°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Sep
200 mm
Driest
Dec
8 mm
Rain / yr
1096 mm
170 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
326 m
8.1°N
Clearest
Jan
34% cloud

Katiola is city of côte d'ivoire.

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

Katiola 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 June to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Katiola stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 35°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3420
Feb3522
Mar3524
Apr3424
May3324
Jun3123
Jul2922
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3222
Nov3322
Dec3320

How hot and cold Katiola 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, Katiola feels like about 39°C (around March 28). About 343 days a year carry some heat stress, and 5 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34342020
Feb36352222
Mar38352424
Apr38342424
May37332424
Jun35312323
Jul33292222
Aug32292222
Sep34302222
Oct36322222
Nov36332222
Dec34332020

Average hourly temperature in Katiola

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 February afternoons, near 35°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Katiola 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° / 20°111.911.63.7
Feb35° / 22°284.811.72.7
Mar35° / 24°7713.411.92.3
Apr34° / 24°10415.912.22.6
May33° / 24°10517.112.43.0
Jun31° / 23°11217.512.53.6
Jul29° / 22°13521.812.43.7
Aug29° / 22°17023.112.33.6
Sep30° / 22°20025.2123.0
Oct32° / 22°10919.811.83.2
Nov33° / 22°377.711.63.7
Dec33° / 20°81.811.54.1

Chance of rain

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

Katiola gets about 1096 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.4 months, from around Mar 20 to Oct 29, peaking in September at about 85% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 29.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 200 mm over about 25 wet days; December is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 15 · 85%Dec 29 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb185
Mar4213
Apr5316
May5517
Jun5918
Jul6922
Aug7523
Sep8425
Oct6320
Nov268
Dec62

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Katiola collects about 1096 mm of rain across 170 wet days — roughly 91 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 200 mm, while December is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec112877104105112135170200109378
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan112
Feb285
Mar7713
Apr10416
May10517
Jun11218
Jul13522
Aug17023
Sep20025
Oct10920
Nov378
Dec82

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Katiola, 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 13 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around March 18. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 19 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around October 12. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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 25 · 83%Aug 5 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7921
Feb6832
Mar4456
Apr3169
May2278
Jun2278
Jul1288
Aug892
Sep2080
Oct4258
Nov6139
Dec7921

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 5, 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)
Jan11.66:426:17
Feb11.76:436:27
Mar11.96:326:28
Apr12.26:156:26
May12.46:066:28
Jun12.56:076:35
Jul12.46:136:39
Aug12.36:166:33
Sep12.06:136:16
Oct11.86:116:00
Nov11.66:175:54
Dec11.56:316:02

Sunny days

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

Katiola averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Nov 1 to Mar 13. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2720 daysJul 260 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb13Mixed
Mar6Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov10Mixed
Dec19Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.8 months, from around March 7 to November 30. 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 December 1 to March 6, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 59% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 64%Apr 4 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan509141980
Feb2681128260
Mar42521680
Apr0002953
May0000946
Jun0002971
Jul00013870
Aug00016840
Sep0002980
Oct0003970
Nov11425680
Dec2791430200

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.

Wind in Katiola is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeAug 2 · 8 km/hOct 1 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Katiola

In seasonPeak

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

Katiola's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

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

Best time to visit Katiola

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid June, Katiola 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 times of year to visit Katiola for general outdoor tourist activities run from early June to late August and again from late October to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 22 · 4.2

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
Jan3.7fair
Feb2.7poor
Mar2.3poor
Apr2.6poor
May3.0poor
Jun3.6fair
Jul3.7fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.0poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.7fair
Dec4.1fair

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 Katiola for hot-weather activities is from mid November to early February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 7.8

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 Katiola, 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 February (highs near 35°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 February, Katiola sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Katiola 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 Katiola peaks around April 11 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 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 highApr 11UV 13Dec 17UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Katiola

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 April 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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Katiola 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 Katiola is worst in February — around 75 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.7× the cleanest month (August, 16 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModerateUnhealthyFeb 974 µg/m³Aug 1516 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan71Unhealthy
Feb75Unhealthy
Mar40Poor
Apr39Poor
May24Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov36Poor
Dec66Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Katiola 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. Katiola banks about 6,324 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)
Jan528
Feb523
Mar599
Apr563
May559
Jun507
Jul493
Aug485
Sep489
Oct531
Nov525
Dec523

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.

Katiola receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.9 and 5.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.5 months, from around Nov 7 to May 22. The brightest month is February, averaging about 5.8 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 25.8 kWhAug 133.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.1Bright
Aug3.9Moderate
Sep4.5Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Katiola?

Katiola sits at 8.1°N, 5.1°W, 326 m above sea level, in Ivory Coast. The nearest listed city is Fronan, 9.0 km away.

BouakéNiakaramandougouBéoumiDabakalaSakassouTortiyaTafiré

Topography around Katiola

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Katiola has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m around an average of 301 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 216 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 513 m.

The land around Katiola is covered by trees (46%) and artificial surfaces (27%) within 3 km, trees (63%) and shrubs (21%) within 16 km, and trees (62%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
66 m
16 km
216 m
80 km
513 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Fronan 9.0 km · Bouaké 50 km · Niakaramandougou 62 km · Béoumi 74 km · Dabakala 78 km · Sakassou 79 km · Tortiya 95 km · Tafiré 104 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 Katiola (8.1373°, -5.101°, elevation 326 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).