Climate and average weather in Tabou

In Tabou, the weather is oppressive, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: late June to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tabou typically varies from 23°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 22°C or above 30°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 Tabou for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and late June to early September.

Hottest
Mar
29°
Coldest
Aug
23°
Wettest
May
284 mm
Driest
Jan
81 mm
Rain / yr
1829 mm
276 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
9 m
4.4°N
Clearest
Jan
53% cloud

Tabou is city of côte d'ivoire.

Density
5/km²
people per km²

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

Tabou 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 June to early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Tabou stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 29°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 23°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2924
Feb2925
Mar2925
Apr2925
May2825
Jun2724
Jul2624
Aug2623
Sep2724
Oct2724
Nov2824
Dec2824

How hot and cold Tabou 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, Tabou feels like about 35°C (around April 3). About 121 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292424
Feb33292525
Mar34292525
Apr34292525
May32282525
Jun29272424
Jul26262324
Aug26262323
Sep27272424
Oct30272424
Nov31282424
Dec32282424

Average hourly temperature in Tabou

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 29°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 23°C.

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

Tabou 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
Jan29° / 24°8117.511.84.8
Feb29° / 25°9719.311.94.1
Mar29° / 25°12523.7123.7
Apr29° / 25°13824.312.13.5
May28° / 25°28428.612.23.3
Jun27° / 24°27925.212.34.0
Jul26° / 24°13518.812.25.0
Aug26° / 23°9817.712.15.1
Sep27° / 24°18726124.0
Oct27° / 24°16827.411.93.9
Nov28° / 24°13325.211.83.8
Dec28° / 24°10522.611.74.3

Chance of rain

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

Tabou gets about 1829 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 4.0 months, from around Feb 27 to Jun 27, peaking in May at about 94% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 3.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 284 mm over about 29 wet days; January is the driest, with 81 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 25 · 94%Aug 3 · 48%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5718
Feb6919
Mar7724
Apr8124
May9229
Jun8425
Jul6119
Aug5818
Sep8626
Oct8827
Nov8425
Dec7223

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tabou collects about 1829 mm of rain across 276 wet days — roughly 152 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 284 mm, while January is the driest at just 81 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec819712513828427913598187168133105
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan8118
Feb9719
Mar12524
Apr13824
May28429
Jun27925
Jul13519
Aug9818
Sep18726
Oct16827
Nov13325
Dec10523

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Tabou, 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 16. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 61% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 11 and lasts for 6.0 months, ending around October 10. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 28 · 65%May 30 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb5050
Mar3565
Apr2971
May1486
Jun1387
Jul1486
Aug1288
Sep1783
Oct3565
Nov4654
Dec5941

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. Close to the equator, Tabou barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.86:466:32
Feb11.96:486:40
Mar12.06:406:38
Apr12.16:276:33
May12.26:206:32
Jun12.36:226:37
Jul12.26:286:42
Aug12.16:296:38
Sep12.06:236:24
Oct11.96:176:11
Nov11.86:216:09
Dec11.76:336:18

Sunny days

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

Tabou averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.8 months, from around Nov 16 to Apr 11. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 0 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 711 daysAug 280 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec8Gloomy

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.

Tabou is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 100% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan38413
Feb06337
Mar04555
Apr03961
May06040
Jun5923
Jul28720
Aug27730
Sep2980
Oct01000
Nov0946
Dec0918

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 Tabou is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Jun 8 to Oct 9. The windiest month is August, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 10 to Jun 7, with December the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 7 · 14 km/hDec 10 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun11calm
Jul13light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep12calm
Oct10calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Tabou

In seasonPeak

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

Tabou sees seasonal dust haze (February), heaviest in February.

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

Best time to visit Tabou

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Tabou is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Tabou for general outdoor tourist activities run from late June to late August and again from late December to early February, with a peak score in the first week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 5.5

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar3.7fair
Apr3.5fair
May3.3poor
Jun4.0fair
Jul5.0fair
Aug5.1fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct3.9fair
Nov3.9fair
Dec4.3fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Tabou for hot-weather activities run from mid July to late August and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 9 · 6.0

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 Tabou, 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.

Tabou packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Tabou sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 24 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tabou

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in May at about 29°C and coldest in August near 26°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Warm
Feb28Warm
Mar28Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun28Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov28Warm
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Tabou 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 Tabou peaks around April 13 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 15 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highApr 13UV 13Jul 15UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Tabou

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 8.5 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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar86
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul74.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Tabou 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 Tabou is worst in January — around 41 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 6.0× the cleanest month (September, 7 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateGoodModerateJan 2040 µg/m³Sep 207 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan41Poor
Feb37Poor
Mar26Moderate
Apr31Moderate
May13Moderate
Jun13Moderate
Jul13Moderate
Aug9Good
Sep7Good
Oct8Good
Nov12Good
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Tabou 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. Tabou banks about 5,816 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)
Jan508
Feb469
Mar525
Apr507
May508
Jun467
Jul461
Aug454
Sep451
Oct481
Nov482
Dec503

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.

Tabou receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 5.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Dec 17 to May 13. The brightest month is April, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.8 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 25.4 kWhJun 143.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.9Bright
Feb5.0Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun3.8Moderate
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug4.0Moderate
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.7Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Tabou?

Tabou sits at 4.4°N, 7.4°W, 9 m above sea level, in Ivory Coast. The nearest listed city is Pleebo City, 40 km away.

Pleebo CityHarperGnépassoWattéSan-PédroPetit GraboGagnyDagadji

Topography around Tabou

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tabou has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 44 m around an average of 8 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 97 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 410 m.

The land around Tabou is covered by trees (39%) and water (35%) within 3 km, trees (48%) and water (48%) within 16 km, and trees (57%) and water (40%) within 80 km.

3 km
44 m
16 km
97 m
80 km
410 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Pleebo City 40 km · Harper 40 km · Gnépasso 70 km · Watté 85 km · San-Pédro 87 km · Petit Grabo 94 km · Gagny 97 km · Dagadji 98 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 Tabou (4.423°, -7.3528°, elevation 9 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. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).