Climate and average weather in Guerou

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

Best: early January to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Guerou typically varies from 17°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 14°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 times of year to visit Guerou 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
61 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
143 mm
23 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
183 m
17.1°N
Clearest
Jun
25% cloud

Guerou 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 Guerou, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from April 4 to July 8, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Guerou is May, with an average high of 41°C and low of 29°C.

The cool season lasts 2.1 months, from December 6 to February 7, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Guerou is January, with an average low of 17°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2917
Feb3220
Mar3623
Apr3926
May4129
Jun4130
Jul3728
Aug3527
Sep3727
Oct3827
Nov3423
Dec3019

How hot and cold Guerou 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, Guerou feels like about 41°C (around May 18). About 287 days a year carry some heat stress, and 151 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan29291717
Feb32322020
Mar36362323
Apr39392626
May41412929
Jun41413030
Jul39372828
Aug39352727
Sep40372727
Oct38382627
Nov34342323
Dec30301919

Average hourly temperature in Guerou

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

Guerou 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° / 17°10.211.17.0
Feb32° / 20°10.211.45.2
Mar36° / 23°00.111.92.9
Apr39° / 26°0012.40.6
May41° / 29°10.412.80.0
Jun41° / 30°40.9130.1
Jul37° / 28°193.312.91.6
Aug35° / 27°618.212.62.5
Sep37° / 27°417.112.11.9
Oct38° / 27°112.411.61.5
Nov34° / 23°10.211.23.6
Dec30° / 19°20.3116.3

Chance of rain

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

Guerou gets about 143 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 Jul 3 to Oct 18, peaking in August at about 31% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 18.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 61 mm over about 8 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetAug 30 · 31%Mar 18 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May10
Jun31
Jul113
Aug268
Sep247
Oct82
Nov10
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Guerou collects about 143 mm of rain across 23 wet days — roughly 12 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 61 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 85% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1100141961411112
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May10
Jun41
Jul193
Aug618
Sep417
Oct112
Nov10
Dec20

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Guerou, 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 February 20 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around July 27. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 28 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around February 19. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 40% 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 20 · 88%Nov 22 · 56%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb7129
Mar8218
Apr8416
May8416
Jun8614
Jul8020
Aug6139
Sep6634
Oct7129
Nov6139
Dec6040

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 2, 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)
Jan11.17:256:30
Feb11.47:206:46
Mar11.97:016:54
Apr12.46:377:00
May12.86:207:08
Jun13.06:187:19
Jul12.96:267:22
Aug12.66:357:10
Sep12.16:406:45
Oct11.66:456:21
Nov11.26:586:09
Dec11.07:156:14

Sunny days

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

Guerou averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 12 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Feb 17 to Jul 23. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 23 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 13 sunny days — about 44% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2124 daysAug 2212 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr22Bright
May22Bright
Jun22Bright
Jul21Bright
Aug13Mixed
Sep15Bright
Oct19Bright
Nov15Bright
Dec15Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around June 17 to October 17. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 18 to June 16, 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 12 · 100%Aug 22 · 1%miserablemuggyoppressivehumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb9910000
Mar9910000
Apr9820000
May8693100
Jun472421710
Jul5143133152
Aug028275310
Sep761127427
Oct5612131090
Nov9531100
Dec9811000

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

The windier part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Nov 22 to Mar 22. The windiest month is January, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Aug 11 to Nov 21, with October the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 4 · 19 km/hOct 2 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan19light breeze
Feb17light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul16light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov14light breeze
Dec17light breeze

Hazard calendar for Guerou

In seasonPeak

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

Guerou 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 Guerou

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 12 · 7.3

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
Jan7.0good
Feb5.2fair
Mar2.9poor
Apr0.6poor
May0.0poor
Jun0.1poor
Jul1.6poor
Aug2.4poor
Sep1.9poor
Oct1.6poor
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 Guerou for hot-weather activities is from mid November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 22 · 8.8

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 Guerou, 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 29°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In May, Guerou sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 29°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Guerou 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 Guerou peaks around March 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 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 highMar 18UV 13Dec 16UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct9Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Guerou

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 March 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)
Jan6.54
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct74.5
Nov6.53.5
Dec63

Air quality in Guerou 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 Guerou is worst in January — around 120 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.7× the cleanest month (September, 45 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJan 16118 µg/m³Sep 1145 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan120Unhealthy
Feb106Unhealthy
Mar77Unhealthy
Apr61Unhealthy
May68Unhealthy
Jun91Unhealthy
Jul74Unhealthy
Aug47Poor
Sep45Poor
Oct57Unhealthy
Nov60Unhealthy
Dec108Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Guerou 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. Guerou banks about 7,328 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)
Jan407
Feb440
Mar595
Apr680
May777
Jun751
Jul697
Aug649
Sep650
Oct683
Nov554
Dec446

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.

Guerou receives about 6.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.6 months, from around Feb 26 to Aug 15. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 32% less than the April peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 307.5 kWhDec 205.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.5Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul7.0Intense
Aug6.5Intense
Sep6.5Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Guerou?

Guerou sits at 17.1°N, 12.0°W, 183 m above sea level, in Mauritania. The nearest listed city is Elghabra, 83 km away.

ElghabraKiffaMagṭa‘ LaḥjarKaédiEl ’AyoûnAlegMatamṬinṭâne

Topography around Guerou

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Guerou has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 236 m around an average of 183 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 399 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 594 m.

The land around Guerou is covered by bare terrain (56%) and grassland (42%) within 3 km, bare terrain (51%) and grassland (47%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (64%) and grassland (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
236 m
16 km
399 m
80 km
594 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Elghabra 83 km · Kiffa 85 km · Magṭa‘ Laḥjar 122 km · Kaédi 187 km · El ’Ayoûn 192 km · Aleg 199 km · Matam 205 km · Ṭinṭâne 213 km

Mauritania travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 31% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,198
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
1
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
25.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 100%

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 Guerou (17.0775°, -12.0387°, elevation 183 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).