Climate and average weather in Sagalo

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

Best: late October to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sagalo typically varies from 18°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 40°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Sagalo for warm-weather activities is from late October to early February.

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
345 mm
Driest
Dec
0 mm
Rain / yr
1252 mm
127 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
540 m
12.2°N
Clearest
Feb
30% cloud

Sagalo is commune and village in Kayes Région da, Mali.

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

Sagalo 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 October to early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Sagalo, 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 February 26 to May 25, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Sagalo is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from June 29 to October 3, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Sagalo is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 15°C) in December.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3218
Feb3520
Mar3723
Apr3826
May3726
Jun3224
Jul3023
Aug2922
Sep3022
Oct3122
Nov3320
Dec3318

How hot and cold Sagalo 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, Sagalo feels like about 39°C (around May 15). About 351 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32321818
Feb35352020
Mar37372323
Apr38382626
May38372626
Jun36322424
Jul33302323
Aug32292222
Sep34302222
Oct35312222
Nov33332020
Dec32331818

Average hourly temperature in Sagalo

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 April afternoons, near 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Sagalo 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° / 18°10.211.45.0
Feb35° / 20°10.211.63.5
Mar37° / 23°20.311.92.1
Apr38° / 26°61.412.31.3
May37° / 26°37712.61.7
Jun32° / 24°15918.612.73.0
Jul30° / 23°30126.512.63.2
Aug29° / 22°34528.112.43.1
Sep30° / 22°27525.712.13.1
Oct31° / 22°11517.111.73.7
Nov33° / 20°101.711.44.4
Dec33° / 18°00.111.34.8

Chance of rain

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

Sagalo gets about 1252 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.1 months, from around May 25 to Oct 27, peaking in August at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 7.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 345 mm over about 28 wet days; December is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 16 · 91%Dec 7 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar10
Apr51
May247
Jun6119
Jul8527
Aug9028
Sep8526
Oct5517
Nov72
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sagalo collects about 1252 mm of rain across 127 wet days — roughly 104 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 345 mm, while December is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 74% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec112637159301345275115100
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar20
Apr61
May377
Jun15919
Jul30127
Aug34528
Sep27526
Oct11517
Nov102
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Sagalo, 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 26 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around May 18. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 19 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around October 25. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 2 · 82%Aug 20 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7327
Feb7822
Mar7822
Apr6931
May5545
Jun4159
Jul2278
Aug1189
Sep2773
Oct4654
Nov6436
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 May 30, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.47:116:33
Feb11.67:096:45
Mar11.96:556:50
Apr12.36:356:51
May12.66:226:56
Jun12.76:227:04
Jul12.66:297:08
Aug12.46:356:59
Sep12.16:356:39
Oct11.76:366:20
Nov11.46:456:11
Dec11.37:006:18

Sunny days

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

Sagalo averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.4 months, from around Oct 30 to May 12. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the February peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantFeb 2622 daysAug 161 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan19Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar20Bright
Apr16Bright
May11Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct8Mixed
Nov14Mixed
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 Sagalo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around May 3 to November 11. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 12 to May 2, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 7 · 100%Jun 15 · 0%muggyoppressivedryhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9721000
Feb9541100
Mar8594200
Apr4922181010
May9132332240
Jun01211842
Jul0001972
Aug0001981
Sep0000963
Oct0128835
Nov33211517140
Dec9262000

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 Sagalo is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Nov 27 to May 28. The windiest month is February, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 29 to Nov 26, with October the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 8 · 9 km/hOct 21 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr8calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Sagalo

In seasonPeak

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

Sagalo's monsoon runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Sagalo sees seasonal dust haze (February–July), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Sagalo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early November, Sagalo 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 time of year to visit Sagalo for general outdoor tourist activities is from late October to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 5.2

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
Jan4.9fair
Feb3.5fair
Mar2.1poor
Apr1.3poor
May1.7poor
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.1poor
Sep3.1poor
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.4fair
Dec4.8fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 10 · 8.2

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 Sagalo, 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 April (highs near 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Sagalo sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Sagalo 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 Sagalo peaks around August 17 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 highExtremeExtremeVery highAug 17UV 13Dec 17UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May10Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Sagalo

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 8.5 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)
Jan6.54
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr85.5
May7.55
Jun86
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec63

Air quality in Sagalo 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 Sagalo is worst in April — around 67 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.5× the cleanest month (August, 12 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModeratePoorUnhealthyApr 1166 µg/m³Aug 1713 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan55Poor
Feb58Unhealthy
Mar61Unhealthy
Apr67Unhealthy
May33Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul17Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct32Moderate
Nov46Poor
Dec61Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Sagalo 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. Sagalo banks about 6,365 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan468
Feb489
Mar622
Apr657
May664
Jun545
Jul497
Aug482
Sep478
Oct509
Nov486
Dec468

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.

Sagalo receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.6 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.7 months, from around Jan 29 to Jun 21. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 4.6 kWh/m² — roughly 34% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 77.0 kWhAug 164.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.6Intense
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Sagalo?

Sagalo sits at 12.2°N, 10.7°W, 540 m above sea level, in Mali. The nearest listed city is Dinguiraye, 101 km away.

DinguirayeTouguéBissikrimaKintinianKitaBankoKédougouDabola

Topography around Sagalo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sagalo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 192 m around an average of 537 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 601 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 826 m.

The land around Sagalo is covered by shrubs (43%) and trees (39%) within 3 km, trees (47%), shrubs (29%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (44%), grassland (29%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
192 m
16 km
601 m
80 km
826 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcropland
Nearby: Dinguiraye 101 km · Tougué 134 km · Bissikrima 152 km · Kintinian 158 km · Kita 161 km · Banko 165 km · Kédougou 166 km · Dabola 168 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 Sagalo (12.2°, -10.7°, elevation 540 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).