Climate and average weather in Niellé

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

Best: late November to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Niellé typically varies from 19°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 16°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 time of year to visit Niellé for warm-weather activities is from late November to late January.

Hottest
Mar
37°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
259 mm
Driest
Dec
1 mm
Rain / yr
1021 mm
139 wet days
Daylight
11.4–12.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
342 m
10.2°N
Clearest
Jan
28% cloud

Niellé is commune of Ivory Coast.

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

Niellé 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 January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Niellé 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 24°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in December.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3319
Feb3522
Mar3724
Apr3625
May3424
Jun3223
Jul3022
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3222
Nov3421
Dec3319

How hot and cold Niellé 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, Niellé feels like about 40°C (around April 26). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 36 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331919
Feb35352222
Mar37372424
Apr39362525
May39342424
Jun36322323
Jul33302222
Aug32292222
Sep34302222
Oct36322222
Nov34342121
Dec33331919

Average hourly temperature in Niellé

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 22°C.

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

Niellé 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°20.411.54.6
Feb35° / 22°4111.72.9
Mar37° / 24°183.911.91.9
Apr36° / 25°5410.712.21.9
May34° / 24°8915.612.52.5
Jun32° / 23°1081712.63.3
Jul30° / 22°20524.512.53.4
Aug29° / 22°25926.512.33.3
Sep30° / 22°19023.612.13.4
Oct32° / 22°8214.211.83.8
Nov34° / 21°101.911.53.9
Dec33° / 19°10.211.44.6

Chance of rain

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

Niellé gets about 1021 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 6.1 months, from around Apr 18 to Oct 21, peaking in August at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 17.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 259 mm over about 27 wet days; December is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 14 · 86%Dec 17 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb41
Mar134
Apr3511
May5116
Jun5817
Jul7825
Aug8527
Sep7824
Oct4514
Nov82
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Niellé collects about 1021 mm of rain across 139 wet days — roughly 85 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 259 mm, while December is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 64% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2418548910820525919082101
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20
Feb41
Mar184
Apr5411
May8916
Jun10817
Jul20525
Aug25927
Sep19024
Oct8214
Nov102
Dec10

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Niellé, 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 6 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around March 21. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 22 and lasts for 6.5 months, ending around October 5. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 82% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 27 · 84%Aug 15 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8317
Feb7723
Mar5842
Apr4357
May3961
Jun4357
Jul2971
Aug1882
Sep3466
Oct5842
Nov6931
Dec8020

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 1, brings about 12 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.56:486:16
Feb11.76:476:27
Mar11.96:346:30
Apr12.26:166:29
May12.56:056:33
Jun12.66:056:41
Jul12.56:126:44
Aug12.36:166:37
Sep12.16:156:18
Oct11.86:146:01
Nov11.56:225:53
Dec11.46:366:01

Sunny days

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

Niellé averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Oct 10 to Mar 20. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 2 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2821 daysJul 311 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar12Mixed
Apr7Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct11Mixed
Nov16Bright
Dec20Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.7 months, from around March 24 to November 13. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 14 to March 23, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 94% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 97%May 2 · 0%muggyoppressivedrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9134200
Feb74610910
Mar339173470
Apr32840460
May00013852
Jun0005942
Jul0002980
Aug0001990
Sep0000991
Oct0119881
Nov20151628220
Dec8186400

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 Niellé is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Nov 30 to Jun 18. The windiest month is January, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 19 to Nov 29, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 2 · 9 km/hSep 21 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Niellé

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

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

Best time to visit Niellé

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 5.0

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar1.9poor
Apr1.9poor
May2.5poor
Jun3.3poor
Jul3.4poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep3.4poor
Oct3.8fair
Nov3.9fair
Dec4.6fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 2 · 8.2

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 Niellé, 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, Niellé sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Niellé 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 Niellé peaks around March 17 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 17UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Niellé

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 6.5 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)
Jan74.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86.5
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Niellé 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 Niellé is worst in February — around 52 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.9× the cleanest month (August, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateModerateFeb 1651 µg/m³Aug 1411 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan40Poor
Feb52Poor
Mar43Poor
Apr39Poor
May22Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug11Good
Sep15Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec35Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Niellé 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. Niellé banks about 6,379 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan495
Feb518
Mar633
Apr617
May597
Jun526
Jul498
Aug481
Sep479
Oct527
Nov515
Dec493

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.

Niellé receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.5 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 8.0 months, from around Oct 15 to Jun 13. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 106.4 kWhAug 184.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May6.2Intense
Jun5.6Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Niellé?

Niellé sits at 10.2°N, 5.6°W, 342 m above sea level, in Ivory Coast. The nearest listed city is Diawala, 19 km away.

KadioloKaouaraMassiogoOuangolodougou

Topography around Niellé

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Niellé has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 59 m around an average of 337 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 290 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 488 m.

The land around Niellé is covered by cropland (40%) and shrubs (22%) within 3 km, cropland (42%) and trees (31%) within 16 km, and cropland (39%), trees (27%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
59 m
16 km
290 m
80 km
488 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Diawala 19 km · Zégoua 32 km · Nambingué 35 km · M’Bengué 37 km · Kadiolo 42 km · Kaouara 48 km · Massiogo 55 km · Ouangolodougou 58 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 Niellé (10.1981°, -5.6234°, elevation 342 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).