Climate and average weather in Zaliohouan

In Zaliohouan, the weather is humid, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around September.

Best: mid November to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Zaliohouan typically varies from 21°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 36°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 Zaliohouan for warm-weather activities are from early July to late August and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Sep
180 mm
Driest
Dec
20 mm
Rain / yr
1071 mm
191 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
242 m
6.8°N
Clearest
Jan
47% cloud

Zaliohouan is village in Sassandra-Marahoué, Ivory Coast.

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

Zaliohouan 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 mid November to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Zaliohouan stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3221
Feb3423
Mar3323
Apr3223
May3123
Jun3023
Jul2922
Aug2822
Sep2922
Oct3022
Nov3122
Dec3121

How hot and cold Zaliohouan 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, Zaliohouan feels like about 38°C (around March 1). About 302 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34322121
Feb37342323
Mar38332323
Apr37322323
May36312323
Jun33302323
Jul31292222
Aug31282222
Sep33292222
Oct34302222
Nov35312222
Dec34312121

Average hourly temperature in Zaliohouan

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 34°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Zaliohouan 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
Jan32° / 21°224.511.64.4
Feb34° / 23°49811.83.3
Mar33° / 23°8915.9122.9
Apr32° / 23°991812.12.9
May31° / 23°11620.912.33.0
Jun30° / 23°11320.212.43.7
Jul29° / 22°9517.912.44.4
Aug28° / 22°11719.812.24.2
Sep29° / 22°18025.6123.3
Oct30° / 22°12222.711.83.5
Nov31° / 22°4912.411.74.3
Dec31° / 21°205.111.65.0

Chance of rain

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

Zaliohouan gets about 1071 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 7.7 months, from around Mar 18 to Nov 5, peaking in September at about 87% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

September is the wettest month by volume, with 180 mm over about 26 wet days; December is the driest, with 20 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetSep 20 · 87%Jan 1 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb298
Mar5116
Apr6018
May6821
Jun6820
Jul5818
Aug6420
Sep8426
Oct7323
Nov4112
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Zaliohouan collects about 1071 mm of rain across 191 wet days — roughly 89 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. September is the wettest month with 180 mm, while December is the driest at just 20 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec22498999116113951171801224920
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan225
Feb498
Mar8916
Apr9918
May11621
Jun11320
Jul9518
Aug11720
Sep18026
Oct12223
Nov4912
Dec205

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Zaliohouan, 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 15 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around March 12. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 13 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around October 14. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% 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 1 · 71%Aug 16 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb5248
Mar2773
Apr1882
May1585
Jun1486
Jul793
Aug595
Sep1684
Oct3070
Nov4159
Dec6238

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 May 27, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:456:24
Feb11.86:466:33
Mar12.06:366:33
Apr12.16:216:30
May12.36:126:30
Jun12.46:136:37
Jul12.46:206:41
Aug12.26:226:36
Sep12.06:186:20
Oct11.86:156:05
Nov11.76:206:01
Dec11.66:336:09

Sunny days

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

Zaliohouan averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Nov 15 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the January peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightJan 216 daysJun 300 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul0Gloomy
Aug0Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec12Mixed

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 Zaliohouan, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.7 months, from around February 20 to December 12. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 13 to February 19, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 16% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 7 · 20%Mar 2 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan981332400
Feb33625631
Mar0006922
Apr0000946
May0000964
Jun0004960
Jul00029710
Aug00030700
Sep0004960
Oct00001000
Nov0003961
Dec23624640

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 Zaliohouan 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 6 · 9 km/hOct 26 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Zaliohouan

In seasonPeak

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

Zaliohouan 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 Zaliohouan

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid November, Zaliohouan 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 Zaliohouan for general outdoor tourist activities run from early July to late August and again from mid November to late January, with a peak score in the last week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 22 · 5.1

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr2.9poor
May3.0poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul4.4fair
Aug4.2fair
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.5poor
Nov4.3fair
Dec5.0fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 29 · 7.7

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 Zaliohouan, 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.

Zaliohouan packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°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 February, Zaliohouan sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Zaliohouan 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 Zaliohouan peaks around April 16 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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highApr 16UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Zaliohouan

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 6.5 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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun85.5
Jul7.55
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Zaliohouan 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 Zaliohouan is worst in January — around 64 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.8× the cleanest month (September, 13 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModeratePoorJan 2163 µg/m³Sep 1114 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan64Unhealthy
Feb61Unhealthy
Mar32Moderate
Apr32Moderate
May19Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec51Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Zaliohouan 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. Zaliohouan banks about 6,069 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)
Jan521
Feb508
Mar564
Apr535
May536
Jun486
Jul476
Aug469
Sep472
Oct503
Nov494
Dec505

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.

Zaliohouan receives about 4.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.6 and 5.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Dec 17 to May 27. The brightest month is April, averaging about 5.3 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.7 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the April peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightApr 65.3 kWhAug 53.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun4.3Bright
Jul3.9Moderate
Aug3.7Moderate
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Zaliohouan?

Zaliohouan sits at 6.8°N, 6.2°W, 242 m above sea level, in Ivory Coast. The nearest listed city is Gonaté, 12 km away.

Sinfra

Topography around Zaliohouan

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Zaliohouan has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 50 m around an average of 235 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 140 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 497 m.

The land around Zaliohouan is covered by trees (57%) and grassland (32%) within 3 km, trees (72%) and grassland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (77%) within 80 km.

3 km
50 m
16 km
140 m
80 km
497 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Gonaté 12 km · Gadouan 17 km · Bonon 25 km · Daloa 25 km · Luénoufla 31 km · Bognonzra 34 km · Saïoua 35 km · Sinfra 41 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 Zaliohouan (6.7952°, -6.2355°, elevation 242 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).