Climate and average weather in Mbera

In Mbera, 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 Mbera typically varies from 15°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 12°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 Mbera for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and mid December to late December.

Hottest
May
41°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
Aug
97 mm
Driest
Dec
0 mm
Rain / yr
212 mm
36 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
295 m
15.9°N
Clearest
Mar
28% cloud

Mbera is UNHCR refugee camp in Mauritania.

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

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

The hot season lasts 3.4 months, from March 28 to July 8, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Mbera is May, with an average high of 41°C and low of 28°C.

The cool season lasts 1.9 months, from December 9 to February 4, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Mbera 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
Feb3218
Mar3621
Apr4025
May4128
Jun4028
Jul3727
Aug3425
Sep3625
Oct3825
Nov3520
Dec3116

How hot and cold Mbera 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, Mbera feels like about 41°C (around May 13). About 296 days a year carry some heat stress, and 136 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
Feb32321818
Mar36362121
Apr40402525
May41412828
Jun41402828
Jul40372727
Aug39342525
Sep39362525
Oct38382525
Nov35352020
Dec31311616

Average hourly temperature in Mbera

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 15°C.

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

Mbera 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°10.211.26.8
Feb32° / 18°00.111.54.9
Mar36° / 21°00.211.92.5
Apr40° / 25°10.312.30.4
May41° / 28°51.212.70.0
Jun40° / 28°113.112.90.1
Jul37° / 27°539.212.81.7
Aug34° / 25°9712.612.52.8
Sep36° / 25°347.212.12.0
Oct38° / 25°81.611.61.5
Nov35° / 20°10.111.33.4
Dec31° / 16°0011.15.9

Chance of rain

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

Mbera gets about 212 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 3.6 months, from around Jun 17 to Oct 4, peaking in August at about 42% 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 97 mm over about 13 wet days; December is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 19 · 42%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar10
Apr10
May41
Jun103
Jul299
Aug4013
Sep247
Oct62
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mbera collects about 212 mm of rain across 36 wet days — roughly 18 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 97 mm, while December is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 87% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1001511539734810
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10
Feb00
Mar00
Apr10
May51
Jun113
Jul539
Aug9713
Sep347
Oct82
Nov10
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mbera, 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 27 and lasts for 1.8 months, ending around July 19. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 20 and lasts for 2.0 months, ending around September 18. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 39% 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 21 · 87%Aug 19 · 59%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6931
Feb7723
Mar8218
Apr7723
May7129
Jun8317
Jul7525
Aug6139
Sep7030
Oct7426
Nov6931
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 May 29, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, 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)
Jan11.26:586:07
Feb11.56:546:22
Mar11.96:366:30
Apr12.36:136:34
May12.75:576:42
Jun12.95:556:51
Jul12.86:036:55
Aug12.56:116:43
Sep12.16:156:20
Oct11.66:195:57
Nov11.36:315:46
Dec11.16:475:51

Sunny days

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

Mbera averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 11 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Jan 28 to May 15. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 12 sunny days — about 44% fewer than the March peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 222 daysAug 2211 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb18Bright
Mar21Bright
Apr19Bright
May18Bright
Jun19Bright
Jul17Bright
Aug12Mixed
Sep15Bright
Oct18Bright
Nov16Bright
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 Mbera, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around May 31 to October 11. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 12 to May 30, 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 14 · 100%Aug 3 · 0%comfortablehumidoppressivedrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb9910000
Mar9811000
Apr9243100
May661613500
Jun2517312430
Jul241143400
Aug00112843
Sep661330451
Oct6013121140
Nov9711000
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 Mbera is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Nov 8 to Apr 17. The windiest month is February, averaging about 16 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 29 to Nov 7, with October the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 13 · 16 km/hOct 7 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug12light breeze
Sep11calm
Oct12calm
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Mbera

In seasonPeak

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

Mbera 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 Mbera

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Mbera 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 Mbera 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 11 · 7.0

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
Jan6.7good
Feb4.9fair
Mar2.5poor
Apr0.4poor
May0.0poor
Jun0.1poor
Jul1.6poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.0poor
Oct1.5poor
Nov3.4poor
Dec5.9good

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 Mbera for hot-weather activities is from mid November to early March, with a peak score in the second week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 12 · 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 Mbera, 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, Mbera sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 28°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Mbera 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 Mbera peaks around March 21 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 highMar 21UV 13Dec 17UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb10Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Mbera

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
Feb75
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct75
Nov6.54
Dec62.5

Air quality in Mbera 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 Mbera is worst in February — around 84 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 4.2× the cleanest month (August, 20 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 884 µg/m³Aug 2221 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan84Unhealthy
Feb84Unhealthy
Mar74Unhealthy
Apr60Unhealthy
May58Unhealthy
Jun56Unhealthy
Jul34Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct49Poor
Nov51Poor
Dec77Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mbera 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. Mbera banks about 7,024 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)
Jan381
Feb422
Mar578
Apr667
May752
Jun727
Jul672
Aug608
Sep624
Oct652
Nov522
Dec418

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.

Mbera receives about 6.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.3 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around Feb 23 to Jul 30. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 187.3 kWhDec 195.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.1Intense
Jun7.0Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.3Intense
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Mbera?

Mbera sits at 15.9°N, 5.8°W, 295 m above sea level, in Mauritania. The nearest listed city is Bougadoum, 169 km away.

BougadoumNaraNémaNionoMoninnpébougouSiribala Coro

Topography around Mbera

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mbera has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 27 m around an average of 278 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 82 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 131 m.

The land around Mbera is covered by grassland (48%) and bare terrain (48%) within 3 km, grassland (77%) within 16 km, and grassland (86%) within 80 km.

3 km
27 m
16 km
82 m
80 km
131 m
shrubsgrasslandbare terrain
Nearby: Bougadoum 169 km · Nara 178 km · Néma 178 km · Niono 180 km · Moninnpébougou 192 km · Siribala Coro 204 km · Ké-Macina 215 km · Dougabougou 229 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 Mbera (15.8561°, -5.7907°, elevation 295 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).