Touba weather in May

In May, Touba sees average daytime highs of 31°C and overnight lows near 22°C, with 166 mm of rain across 22.7 wet days and about 12.4 hours of daylight. It is the 7th-warmest and 4th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 31°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 4% 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 24 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Touba's 9th-clearest and 6th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Touba's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 31°; 7th warmest
Overnight low: 22°; 10th coldest
Rainfall: 166 mm; 22.7 wet days
Daylight: 12 h 24 min; 6:16 AM – 6:38 PM
Cloud cover: 77%; 9th clearest
Wind: 7 km/h; 6th windiest
Solar energy: 5.43 kWh/m²
Travel score: 3.0; out of 10

Touba is city of côte d'ivoire.

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

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Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 31°C through the month.

A typical May day in Touba reaches about 31°C in the afternoon and slips back to 22°C overnight — a 9°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 29°C and 33°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 1°C cooler than April and about 2°C warmer than June.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	31
Avg low (°C)	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	22
2	32	22
3	32	22
4	32	22
5	32	22
6	32	22
7	32	22
8	32	22
9	32	22
10	31	22
11	31	22
12	31	22
13	31	22
14	31	22
15	31	22
16	31	22
17	31	22
18	31	22
19	31	22
20	31	22
21	31	22
22	31	22
23	31	22
24	31	22
25	31	22
26	31	22
27	31	22
28	31	22
29	31	22
30	31	22
31	31	22

How May really feels in Touba

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

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

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

Touba weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 7th-warmest and 4th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	33° / 19°	17	3	11.6	4.4
Feb	34° / 21°	45	6.6	11.7	3.3
Mar	33° / 22°	109	15.9	11.9	2.8
Apr	32° / 22°	149	20.7	12.2	2.8
May	31° / 22°	166	22.7	12.4	3.0
Jun	30° / 22°	166	23.2	12.5	3.4
Jul	28° / 21°	194	25.5	12.4	3.8
Aug	28° / 21°	225	25.8	12.3	3.8
Sep	29° / 21°	248	27.1	12	3.1
Oct	31° / 21°	152	23.5	11.8	3.3
Nov	32° / 21°	56	10.8	11.6	4.1
Dec	32° / 19°	14	2.8	11.5	4.8

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 4% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 15% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 80%.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	22	22	22	22	23	23	23	23	22	22	22	22	22	21	21	20	20	19	19	19	18	18	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	16
Cloudier (%)	78	78	78	78	77	77	77	77	78	78	78	78	78	79	79	80	80	81	81	81	82	82	84	84	84	84	84	84	85	84	84

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	22	78
2	22	78
3	22	78
4	22	78
5	23	77
6	23	77
7	23	77
8	23	77
9	22	78
10	22	78
11	22	78
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	21	79
16	20	80
17	20	80
18	19	81
19	19	81
20	19	81
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	16	84
24	16	84
25	16	84
26	16	84
27	16	84
28	16	84
29	15	85
30	16	84
31	16	84

Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Touba gets around 166 mm of rain over 22.7 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 73% and peaks near 76% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	72	72	72	72	71	71	71	72	72	72	72	73	73	73	73	74	74	74	74	74	74	74	75	75	75	75	75	75	75	76	76

	Rain chance (%)
1	72
2	72
3	72
4	72
5	71
6	71
7	71
8	72
9	72
10	72
11	72
12	73
13	73
14	73
15	73
16	74
17	74
18	74
19	74
20	74
21	74
22	74
23	75
24	75
25	75
26	75
27	75
28	75
29	75
30	76
31	76

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 95% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Muggy (%)	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	9	10	10	11	12
Oppressive (%)	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	98	97	97	97	97	96	96	96	95	95	94	94	93	93	92	91	90	90	89	88

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	2	98
2	2	98
3	2	98
4	2	98
5	2	98
6	2	98
7	2	98
8	2	98
9	2	98
10	2	98
11	2	98
12	2	98
13	3	97
14	3	97
15	3	97
16	3	97
17	4	96
18	4	96
19	4	96
20	5	95
21	5	95
22	6	94
23	6	94
24	7	93
25	7	93
26	8	92
27	9	91
28	10	90
29	10	90
30	11	89
31	12	88

Wind in May

Winds average 7 km/h in May.

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

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
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	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	7	calm
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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 24 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 6 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 6:19 AM to 6:15 AM, and sunset from 6:37 PM to 6:41 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.3	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4	12.4
Sunrise (AM)	6:19	6:19	6:19	6:18	6:18	6:18	6:18	6:17	6:17	6:17	6:17	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:16	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15	6:15
Sunset (PM)	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:37	6:38	6:38	6:38	6:38	6:38	6:38	6:38	6:39	6:39	6:39	6:39	6:39	6:40	6:40	6:40	6:40	6:40	6:41	6:41	6:41	6:41

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	12.3	6:19	6:37
2	12.3	6:19	6:37
3	12.3	6:19	6:37
4	12.3	6:18	6:37
5	12.3	6:18	6:37
6	12.3	6:18	6:37
7	12.3	6:18	6:37
8	12.3	6:17	6:37
9	12.3	6:17	6:37
10	12.3	6:17	6:37
11	12.3	6:17	6:38
12	12.4	6:16	6:38
13	12.4	6:16	6:38
14	12.4	6:16	6:38
15	12.4	6:16	6:38
16	12.4	6:16	6:38
17	12.4	6:16	6:38
18	12.4	6:15	6:39
19	12.4	6:15	6:39
20	12.4	6:15	6:39
21	12.4	6:15	6:39
22	12.4	6:15	6:39
23	12.4	6:15	6:40
24	12.4	6:15	6:40
25	12.4	6:15	6:40
26	12.4	6:15	6:40
27	12.4	6:15	6:40
28	12.4	6:15	6:41
29	12.4	6:15	6:41
30	12.4	6:15	6:41
31	12.4	6:15	6:41

Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 5.43 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.09 kWh/m² to a high of 5.84 kWh/m² in February across the year — May's 5.43 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.2
Level	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright	Bright

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	5.6	Bright
2	5.6	Bright
3	5.6	Bright
4	5.6	Bright
5	5.5	Bright
6	5.5	Bright
7	5.5	Bright
8	5.5	Bright
9	5.5	Bright
10	5.5	Bright
11	5.5	Bright
12	5.5	Bright
13	5.5	Bright
14	5.5	Bright
15	5.5	Bright
16	5.5	Bright
17	5.4	Bright
18	5.4	Bright
19	5.4	Bright
20	5.4	Bright
21	5.4	Bright
22	5.4	Bright
23	5.3	Bright
24	5.3	Bright
25	5.3	Bright
26	5.3	Bright
27	5.3	Bright
28	5.2	Bright
29	5.2	Bright
30	5.2	Bright
31	5.2	Bright

Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Touba

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Rainy season

Dust

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Is May a good time to visit Touba?

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

3.0

Sightseeing

10th-best month of the year

4.5

Beach & pool

9th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Touba.

What to pack for Touba in May

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

In May, Touba sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 23 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Touba 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 Touba peaks around March 19 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 9 (very high).

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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	10	11	14	12	12	12	11	12	13	12	9	9
Level	Very high	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Very high

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	10	Very high
Feb	11	Extreme
Mar	14	Extreme
Apr	12	Extreme
May	12	Extreme
Jun	12	Extreme
Jul	11	Extreme
Aug	12	Extreme
Sep	13	Extreme
Oct	12	Extreme
Nov	9	Very high
Dec	9	Very high

Air quality in Touba 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 Touba 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).

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
PM2.5 (µg/m³)	89	88	50	40	22	16	12	10	11	18	24	51
Level	Unhealthy	Unhealthy	Poor	Poor	Moderate	Moderate	Good	Good	Good	Moderate	Moderate	Poor

	PM2.5 (µg/m³)	Level
Jan	89	Unhealthy
Feb	88	Unhealthy
Mar	50	Poor
Apr	40	Poor
May	22	Moderate
Jun	16	Moderate
Jul	12	Good
Aug	10	Good
Sep	11	Good
Oct	18	Moderate
Nov	24	Moderate
Dec	51	Poor

Location & terrain

Where is Touba?

Touba sits at 8.3°N, 7.7°W, 470 m above sea level, in Ivory Coast. The nearest listed city is Borotou-Koro, 60 km away.

Topography around Touba

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Touba has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 98 m around an average of 482 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 566 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,010 m.

The land around Touba is covered by grassland (45%) and trees (30%) within 3 km, trees (46%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and trees (57%) and grassland (33%) within 80 km.

3 km

98 m

grassland 45%

16 km

566 m

trees 46%

80 km

1,010 m

trees 57%

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← April Touba year-round climate June →Best places to visit in May

May weather nearby: Borotou-Koro 60 km · Biankouma 61 km · Man 98 km · Ancien-Prozi 104 km · Lola 108 km · Beyla 115 km · Moussadou 116 km · Séguéla 117 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 Touba (8.2833°, -7.6833°, elevation 470 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).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	22
2	32	22
3	32	22
4	32	22
5	32	22
6	32	22
7	32	22
8	32	22
9	32	22
10	31	22
11	31	22
12	31	22
13	31	22
14	31	22
15	31	22
16	31	22
17	31	22
18	31	22
19	31	22
20	31	22
21	31	22
22	31	22
23	31	22
24	31	22
25	31	22
26	31	22
27	31	22
28	31	22
29	31	22
30	31	22
31	31	22

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	22	78
2	22	78
3	22	78
4	22	78
5	23	77
6	23	77
7	23	77
8	23	77
9	22	78
10	22	78
11	22	78
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	21	79
16	20	80
17	20	80
18	19	81
19	19	81
20	19	81
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	16	84
24	16	84
25	16	84
26	16	84
27	16	84
28	16	84
29	15	85
30	16	84
31	16	84

	Rain chance (%)
1	72
2	72
3	72
4	72
5	71
6	71
7	71
8	72
9	72
10	72
11	72
12	73
13	73
14	73
15	73
16	74
17	74
18	74
19	74
20	74
21	74
22	74
23	75
24	75
25	75
26	75
27	75
28	75
29	75
30	76
31	76

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	2	98
2	2	98
3	2	98
4	2	98
5	2	98
6	2	98
7	2	98
8	2	98
9	2	98
10	2	98
11	2	98
12	2	98
13	3	97
14	3	97
15	3	97
16	3	97
17	4	96
18	4	96
19	4	96
20	5	95
21	5	95
22	6	94
23	6	94
24	7	93
25	7	93
26	8	92
27	9	91
28	10	90
29	10	90
30	11	89
31	12	88

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	22
2	32	22
3	32	22
4	32	22
5	32	22
6	32	22
7	32	22
8	32	22
9	32	22
10	31	22
11	31	22
12	31	22
13	31	22
14	31	22
15	31	22
16	31	22
17	31	22
18	31	22
19	31	22
20	31	22
21	31	22
22	31	22
23	31	22
24	31	22
25	31	22
26	31	22
27	31	22
28	31	22
29	31	22
30	31	22
31	31	22

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	22	78
2	22	78
3	22	78
4	22	78
5	23	77
6	23	77
7	23	77
8	23	77
9	22	78
10	22	78
11	22	78
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	21	79
16	20	80
17	20	80
18	19	81
19	19	81
20	19	81
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	16	84
24	16	84
25	16	84
26	16	84
27	16	84
28	16	84
29	15	85
30	16	84
31	16	84

	Rain chance (%)
1	72
2	72
3	72
4	72
5	71
6	71
7	71
8	72
9	72
10	72
11	72
12	73
13	73
14	73
15	73
16	74
17	74
18	74
19	74
20	74
21	74
22	74
23	75
24	75
25	75
26	75
27	75
28	75
29	75
30	76
31	76

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	2	98
2	2	98
3	2	98
4	2	98
5	2	98
6	2	98
7	2	98
8	2	98
9	2	98
10	2	98
11	2	98
12	2	98
13	3	97
14	3	97
15	3	97
16	3	97
17	4	96
18	4	96
19	4	96
20	5	95
21	5	95
22	6	94
23	6	94
24	7	93
25	7	93
26	8	92
27	9	91
28	10	90
29	10	90
30	11	89
31	12	88

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	32	22
2	32	22
3	32	22
4	32	22
5	32	22
6	32	22
7	32	22
8	32	22
9	32	22
10	31	22
11	31	22
12	31	22
13	31	22
14	31	22
15	31	22
16	31	22
17	31	22
18	31	22
19	31	22
20	31	22
21	31	22
22	31	22
23	31	22
24	31	22
25	31	22
26	31	22
27	31	22
28	31	22
29	31	22
30	31	22
31	31	22

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	22	78
2	22	78
3	22	78
4	22	78
5	23	77
6	23	77
7	23	77
8	23	77
9	22	78
10	22	78
11	22	78
12	22	78
13	22	78
14	21	79
15	21	79
16	20	80
17	20	80
18	19	81
19	19	81
20	19	81
21	18	82
22	18	82
23	16	84
24	16	84
25	16	84
26	16	84
27	16	84
28	16	84
29	15	85
30	16	84
31	16	84

	Rain chance (%)
1	72
2	72
3	72
4	72
5	71
6	71
7	71
8	72
9	72
10	72
11	72
12	73
13	73
14	73
15	73
16	74
17	74
18	74
19	74
20	74
21	74
22	74
23	75
24	75
25	75
26	75
27	75
28	75
29	75
30	76
31	76

	Muggy (%)	Oppressive (%)
1	2	98
2	2	98
3	2	98
4	2	98
5	2	98
6	2	98
7	2	98
8	2	98
9	2	98
10	2	98
11	2	98
12	2	98
13	3	97
14	3	97
15	3	97
16	3	97
17	4	96
18	4	96
19	4	96
20	5	95
21	5	95
22	6	94
23	6	94
24	7	93
25	7	93
26	8	92
27	9	91
28	10	90
29	10	90
30	11	89
31	12	88