Climate and average weather in Bourem

In Bourem, the summers are sweltering, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are hot and mostly clear.

Best: mid December to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bourem typically varies from 15°C to 42°C, and is rarely below 12°C or above 44°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Bourem for warm-weather activities is from mid December to early February.

Hottest
May
42°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Aug
37 mm
Driest
Mar
0 mm
Rain / yr
74 mm
18 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
270 m
17.0°N
Clearest
Jun
24% cloud

Bourem 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 December to early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from April 3 to July 22, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Bourem is May, with an average high of 42°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 1.9 months, from December 12 to February 6, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Bourem is January, with an average low of 15°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in March.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2915
Feb3217
Mar3621
Apr4025
May4228
Jun4129
Jul3928
Aug3727
Sep3927
Oct3825
Nov3520
Dec3017

How hot and cold Bourem 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, Bourem feels like about 42°C (around May 19). About 291 days a year carry some heat stress, and 180 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291515
Feb32321717
Mar36362121
Apr40402525
May42422828
Jun41412929
Jul41392828
Aug40372727
Sep39392727
Oct38382525
Nov34352020
Dec30301717

Average hourly temperature in Bourem

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 May afternoons, near 42°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°C.

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

Bourem 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° / 15°10.211.17.3
Feb32° / 17°0011.45.3
Mar36° / 21°0011.92.7
Apr40° / 25°00.112.40.3
May42° / 28°20.512.80.0
Jun41° / 29°41.6130.0
Jul39° / 28°184.912.90.6
Aug37° / 27°377.212.61.5
Sep39° / 27°102.912.10.9
Oct38° / 25°20.411.61.1
Nov35° / 20°0011.23.6
Dec30° / 17°00116.2

Chance of rain

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

Bourem gets about 74 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.5 months, from around Jun 14 to Sep 27, peaking in August at about 25% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 37 mm over about 7 wet days; March is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetAug 18 · 25%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May21
Jun52
Jul155
Aug237
Sep103
Oct10
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bourem collects about 74 mm of rain across 18 wet days — roughly 6 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 37 mm, while March is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 87% of the year’s total.

02550JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1002418371020
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb00
Mar00
Apr00
May21
Jun42
Jul185
Aug377
Sep103
Oct20
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Bourem, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 21 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around August 9. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 93% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 6 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around February 19. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 31% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 27 · 95%Dec 8 · 67%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb7921
Mar8119
Apr7921
May8119
Jun937
Jul919
Aug8119
Sep8614
Oct8614
Nov7525
Dec6931

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 4, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.16:385:43
Feb11.46:335:59
Mar11.96:156:07
Apr12.45:506:13
May12.85:346:21
Jun13.05:316:32
Jul12.95:396:35
Aug12.65:486:23
Sep12.15:535:59
Oct11.65:585:35
Nov11.26:115:22
Dec11.06:285:27

Sunny days

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

Bourem averages about 21 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 16 and 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.4 months, from around May 18 to Jul 30. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 17 sunny days — about 34% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2327 daysDec 1116 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr20Bright
May21Bright
Jun25Brilliant
Jul24Brilliant
Aug19Bright
Sep22Bright
Oct23Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec17Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around June 11 to September 30. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 93% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 1 to June 10, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 13 · 100%Aug 4 · 5%oppressivecomfortablehumiddrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar10000000
Apr9811000
May84104100
Jun432720910
Jul8152638121
Aug251546303
Sep25202322101
Oct82105210
Nov9910000
Dec10000000

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 Bourem is typically light breeze, near 15 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Nov 30 to Apr 20. The windiest month is January, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 6 to Nov 29, with September the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 7 · 18 km/hSep 24 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr16light breeze
May14light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Bourem

In seasonPeak

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

Bourem sees dust haze year-round, heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Bourem

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Bourem 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 time of year to visit Bourem for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to early February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 10 · 7.6

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
Jan7.3good
Feb5.3fair
Mar2.7poor
Apr0.3poor
May0.0poor
Jun0.0poor
Jul0.6poor
Aug1.4poor
Sep0.9poor
Oct1.2poor
Nov3.6fair
Dec6.2good

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 27 · 8.9

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 Bourem, 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 May (highs near 42°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Bourem sees daytime highs around 42°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Bourem 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 Bourem peaks around August 20 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highAug 20UV 13Dec 17UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr10Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Bourem

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 August 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)
Jan6.53.5
Feb75
Mar86
Apr85.5
May86
Jun85.5
Jul7.55
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov6.54
Dec63

Air quality in Bourem 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 Bourem is worst in February — around 106 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.6× the cleanest month (September, 41 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyFeb 9106 µg/m³Sep 1442 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan105Unhealthy
Feb106Unhealthy
Mar96Unhealthy
Apr76Unhealthy
May80Unhealthy
Jun78Unhealthy
Jul66Unhealthy
Aug50Poor
Sep41Poor
Oct56Unhealthy
Nov62Unhealthy
Dec95Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bourem 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. Bourem banks about 7,265 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan367
Feb410
Mar572
Apr672
May771
Jun757
Jul728
Aug687
Sep687
Oct676
Nov523
Dec416

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.

Bourem receives about 6.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.3 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around Feb 27 to Oct 2. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 28% less than the April peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 247.5 kWhDec 165.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.4Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.2Intense
Jul7.0Intense
Aug6.8Intense
Sep6.7Intense
Oct6.4Intense
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Bourem?

Bourem sits at 17.0°N, 0.3°W, 270 m above sea level, in Mali. The nearest listed city is Gao, 83 km away.

I-n-TillitKidalAyorouTimbuktuAribindaMéhanaDori

Topography around Bourem

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bourem has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 38 m around an average of 263 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 52 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 138 m.

The land around Bourem is covered by bare terrain (66%) within 3 km, bare terrain (82%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (68%) and grassland (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
38 m
16 km
52 m
80 km
138 m
grasslandcroplandbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Gao 83 km · I-n-Tillit 157 km · Kidal 249 km · Ayorou 282 km · Timbuktu 284 km · Aribinda 308 km · Méhana 326 km · Dori 327 km

Mali travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,193
2025
Happiness
4.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths
22.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 408
Religion
Muslim 94%Christian 3%none 3%animist 1%

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 Bourem (16.955°, -0.3486°, elevation 270 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).