Climate and average weather in Diéma

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

Best: early January to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Diéma typically varies from 17°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 43°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Diéma for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and mid December to late December.

Hottest
May
41°
Coldest
Jan
17°
Wettest
Aug
185 mm
Driest
Feb
0 mm
Rain / yr
483 mm
64 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
255 m
14.5°N
Clearest
Mar
30% cloud

Diéma 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 early January to early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.9 months, from March 23 to June 18, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Diéma is May, with an average high of 41°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 1.9 months, from July 23 to September 18, with daily high temperatures below 33°C. The coldest month of the year in Diéma is January, with an average low of 17°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in November.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3117
Feb3420
Mar3823
Apr4026
May4128
Jun3928
Jul3425
Aug3124
Sep3324
Oct3623
Nov3520
Dec3218

How hot and cold Diéma 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, Diéma feels like about 41°C (around June 18). About 326 days a year carry some heat stress, and 103 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in June.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31311717
Feb34342020
Mar38382323
Apr40402626
May41412828
Jun41392728
Jul38342525
Aug36312424
Sep38332424
Oct37362323
Nov35352020
Dec32321818

Average hourly temperature in Diéma

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 41°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 17°C.

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

Diéma 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
Jan31° / 17°10.211.25.6
Feb34° / 20°00.111.53.7
Mar38° / 23°10.211.91.5
Apr40° / 26°10.512.30.0
May41° / 28°92.412.70.0
Jun39° / 28°337.512.80.8
Jul34° / 25°11114.812.82.8
Aug31° / 24°18518.512.53.4
Sep33° / 24°1121412.13.3
Oct36° / 23°305.411.72.3
Nov35° / 20°10.211.32.9
Dec32° / 18°00.111.24.9

Chance of rain

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

Diéma gets about 483 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.4 months, from around Jun 4 to Oct 16, peaking in August at about 62% 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 185 mm over about 19 wet days; February is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 23 · 62%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr21
May92
Jun258
Jul4715
Aug5919
Sep4614
Oct185
Nov10
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Diéma collects about 483 mm of rain across 64 wet days — roughly 40 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 185 mm, while February is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 84% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10119331111851123010
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb00
Mar10
Apr11
May92
Jun338
Jul11115
Aug18519
Sep11214
Oct305
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Diéma, 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 December 9 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around July 2. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 79% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 3 and lasts for 3.8 months, ending around October 26. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 3 · 81%Aug 18 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6832
Feb7525
Mar7921
Apr7624
May6733
Jun6733
Jul5050
Aug3169
Sep4951
Oct6139
Nov6436
Dec6535

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 14, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.27:096:23
Feb11.57:066:37
Mar11.96:496:43
Apr12.36:276:47
May12.76:136:53
Jun12.86:117:03
Jul12.86:197:06
Aug12.56:266:56
Sep12.16:296:33
Oct11.76:326:12
Nov11.36:436:01
Dec11.26:596:07

Sunny days

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

Diéma averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.0 months, from around Oct 25 to May 26. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 4 sunny days — about 80% fewer than the March peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 121 daysAug 154 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr18Bright
May16Bright
Jun15Mixed
Jul9Mixed
Aug4Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct14Mixed
Nov15Bright
Dec16Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around May 24 to October 26. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to May 23, 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 9 · 100%Jul 17 · 0%miserablecomfortablemuggydryhumidoppressivecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9910000
Feb9811000
Mar9621000
Apr8585200
May4918171420
Jun981742240
Jul00113814
Aug00008712
Sep00137917
Oct2291023333
Nov8764310
Dec9910000

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 Diéma is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Nov 18 to Apr 26. The windiest month is February, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 19 to Nov 17, with September the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 12 · 12 km/hSep 19 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12calm
Feb12light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Diéma

In seasonPeak

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

Diéma sees seasonal dust haze (February–October), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Diéma

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Diéma 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 Diéma 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 9 · 5.9

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
Jan5.6good
Feb3.7fair
Mar1.5poor
Apr0.1poor
May0.0poor
Jun0.8poor
Jul2.8poor
Aug3.4poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct2.3poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec4.9fair

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 Diéma for hot-weather activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 11 · 8.5

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 Diéma, 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 41°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 31°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Diéma sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Diéma 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 Diéma peaks around August 17 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 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 highAug 17UV 13Dec 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov9Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Diéma

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 6.5 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)
Jan6.54
Feb75
Mar86
Apr7.55.5
May85.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct75
Nov6.54
Dec63

Air quality in Diéma 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 Diéma is worst in February — around 67 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.4× the cleanest month (August, 15 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorFeb 1867 µg/m³Aug 2016 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan58Unhealthy
Feb67Unhealthy
Mar64Unhealthy
Apr52Poor
May46Poor
Jun44Poor
Jul24Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct47Poor
Nov54Poor
Dec54Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Diéma 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. Diéma banks about 6,988 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around May.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan441
Feb477
Mar629
Apr698
May757
Jun689
Jul601
Aug546
Sep546
Oct607
Nov534
Dec463

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.

Diéma receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 15 to Jul 10. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 157.2 kWhAug 145.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun6.8Intense
Jul6.0Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.0Intense
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Diéma?

Diéma sits at 14.5°N, 9.2°W, 255 m above sea level, in Mali. The nearest listed city is Nioro, 88 km away.

MahinaKolokaniKitaBafoulabéNaraBanambaTembedgha

Topography around Diéma

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Diéma has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m around an average of 254 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 70 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 243 m.

The land around Diéma is covered by cropland (60%) and grassland (27%) within 3 km, cropland (59%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and grassland (58%) and cropland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
19 m
16 km
70 m
80 km
243 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Nioro 88 km · Mahina 121 km · Kolokani 165 km · Kita 170 km · Bafoulabé 195 km · Nara 216 km · Banamba 218 km · Tembedgha 218 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 Diéma (14.54°, -9.1921°, elevation 255 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).