Climate and average weather in Kollo

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

Best: mid December to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kollo typically varies from 17°C to 40°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 43°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kollo for warm-weather activities is from mid December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
40°
Coldest
Jan
17°
Wettest
Aug
132 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
298 mm
46 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
189 m
13.3°N
Clearest
Feb
27% cloud

Kollo 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 late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.6 months, from March 16 to June 2, with daily high temperatures above 38°C. The hottest month of the year in Kollo is April, with an average high of 40°C and low of 27°C.

The cool season lasts 1.4 months, from December 17 to January 27, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Kollo 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 16°C) in November.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3117
Feb3420
Mar3823
Apr4027
May4029
Jun3727
Jul3426
Aug3224
Sep3425
Oct3725
Nov3620
Dec3318

How hot and cold Kollo 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, Kollo feels like about 42°C (around May 17). About 331 days a year carry some heat stress, and 136 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)
Jan31311717
Feb34342020
Mar38382323
Apr41402727
May42402929
Jun41372727
Jul38342526
Aug36322424
Sep39342525
Oct39372525
Nov36362020
Dec33331718

Average hourly temperature in Kollo

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 40°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 17°C.

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

Kollo 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°0011.35.7
Feb34° / 20°00.111.63.7
Mar38° / 23°10.311.91.2
Apr40° / 27°30.912.30.0
May40° / 29°92.512.60.3
Jun37° / 27°255.412.81.7
Jul34° / 26°6811.612.73.0
Aug32° / 24°13215.712.43.5
Sep34° / 25°507.512.13.2
Oct37° / 25°92.311.71.8
Nov36° / 20°0011.42.6
Dec33° / 18°0011.24.9

Chance of rain

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

Kollo gets about 298 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 4.1 months, from around May 30 to Sep 30, peaking in August at about 51% 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 132 mm over about 16 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 17 · 51%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr31
May83
Jun185
Jul3712
Aug5016
Sep268
Oct72
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kollo collects about 298 mm of rain across 46 wet days — roughly 25 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 132 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 84% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec01392568132509
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar10
Apr31
May93
Jun255
Jul6812
Aug13216
Sep508
Oct92
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kollo, 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 September 23 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around March 13. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 82% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 3 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around September 22. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 60% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 27 · 86%Aug 16 · 37%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8218
Feb8119
Mar6931
Apr6238
May6535
Jun7525
Jul5644
Aug4060
Sep6139
Oct7624
Nov7822
Dec8218

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 7, brings about 12 h 48 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.37:216:39
Feb11.67:186:52
Mar11.97:036:58
Apr12.36:427:00
May12.66:297:05
Jun12.86:287:14
Jul12.76:357:18
Aug12.46:417:08
Sep12.16:436:47
Oct11.76:456:27
Nov11.46:556:17
Dec11.27:106:23

Sunny days

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

Kollo averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Sep 22 to Mar 13. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 6 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2622 daysAug 155 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb20Bright
Mar17Bright
Apr14Mixed
May15Mixed
Jun17Bright
Jul11Mixed
Aug6Gloomy
Sep13Mixed
Oct19Bright
Nov19Bright
Dec22Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around April 24 to October 24. 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 October 25 to April 23, and November is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 94% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNov 30 · 100%Jun 24 · 0%comfortabledryoppressivehumidmuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb9901000
Mar9332100
Apr5212201510
May772450130
Jun01445491
Jul00013870
Aug0001955
Sep0019856
Oct1891428300
Nov8773200
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 Kollo is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 3.8 months, from around Dec 1 to Mar 26. The windiest month is February, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 30 to Nov 30, with October the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 7 · 13 km/hOct 19 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May12calm
Jun12light breeze
Jul12calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov11calm
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Kollo

In seasonPeak

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

Kollo sees seasonal dust haze (January–July), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Kollo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Kollo 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 Kollo for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 6.2

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
Jan5.7good
Feb3.7fair
Mar1.2poor
Apr0.0poor
May0.3poor
Jun1.7poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.5poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct1.9poor
Nov2.7poor
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 Kollo for hot-weather activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 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 Kollo, 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 40°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 April, Kollo sees daytime highs around 40°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kollo 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 Kollo peaks around August 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highAug 18UV 13Dec 13UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr10Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kollo

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)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr7.55.5
May85.5
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov6.54.5
Dec6.54

Air quality in Kollo 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 Kollo is worst in February — around 97 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.0× the cleanest month (August, 20 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 2197 µg/m³Aug 1320 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan87Unhealthy
Feb97Unhealthy
Mar96Unhealthy
Apr74Unhealthy
May46Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul22Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep26Moderate
Oct48Poor
Nov62Unhealthy
Dec77Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kollo 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. Kollo banks about 7,093 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)
Jan439
Feb479
Mar645
Apr712
May749
Jun664
Jul608
Aug563
Sep582
Oct646
Nov541
Dec465

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.

Kollo receives about 6.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — intense — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.6 and 7.1 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 57.1 kWhAug 165.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.0Intense
May6.8Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.2Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep6.2Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Kollo?

Kollo sits at 13.3°N, 2.3°E, 189 m above sea level, in Niger. The nearest listed city is Youri Kourtéré, 10 km away.

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Topography around Kollo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kollo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 32 m around an average of 183 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 97 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 119 m.

The land around Kollo is covered by grassland (46%) and cropland (30%) within 3 km, grassland (61%) within 16 km, and grassland (65%) within 80 km.

3 km
32 m
16 km
97 m
80 km
119 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Youri Kourtéré 10 km · Say 23 km · Niamey 34 km · Torodi 62 km · Birnin Gaouré 67 km · Baléyara 85 km · Dosso 97 km · Tillabéri 139 km

Niger travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type A / B / C / D / E / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 36% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$775
2025
Happiness
4.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
4.4
per 100k, 2012
Road deaths
25.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Muslim 96%ethnic religionist 4%Christian 0%agnostics and other 0%

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 Kollo (13.3043°, 2.339°, elevation 189 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).