Climate and average weather in Méhana

In Méhana, 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 Méhana typically varies from 17°C to 41°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 44°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 Méhana for warm-weather activities is from mid December to late January.

Hottest
Apr
41°
Coldest
Jan
17°
Wettest
Aug
104 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
206 mm
36 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
218 m
14.4°N
Clearest
Feb
27% cloud

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

The hot season lasts 3.1 months, from March 20 to June 20, with daily high temperatures above 39°C. The hottest month of the year in Méhana is April, with an average high of 41°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 1.5 months, from December 16 to January 29, with daily high temperatures below 33°C. The coldest month of the year in Méhana is January, with an average low of 17°C and high of 31°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)
Jan3117
Feb3420
Mar3823
Apr4126
May4129
Jun3928
Jul3626
Aug3425
Sep3626
Oct3826
Nov3721
Dec3318

How hot and cold Méhana 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, Méhana feels like about 42°C (around June 9). About 330 days a year carry some heat stress, and 170 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
Apr41412626
May42412929
Jun42392828
Jul40362626
Aug38342525
Sep40362626
Oct39382526
Nov36372121
Dec33331818

Average hourly temperature in Méhana

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 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

Méhana 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°0011.25.8
Feb34° / 20°0011.53.7
Mar38° / 23°00.111.91.1
Apr41° / 26°10.312.30.0
May41° / 29°51.312.70.0
Jun39° / 28°134.312.80.6
Jul36° / 26°509.612.82.1
Aug34° / 25°10412.712.52.9
Sep36° / 26°296.412.12.0
Oct38° / 26°41.211.71.0
Nov37° / 21°0011.32.3
Dec33° / 18°0011.24.8

Chance of rain

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

Méhana gets about 206 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 3.9 months, from around Jun 3 to Sep 30, peaking in July at about 43% 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 104 mm over about 13 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 31 · 43%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr10
May51
Jun144
Jul3110
Aug4013
Sep236
Oct41
Nov00
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Méhana collects about 206 mm of rain across 36 wet days — roughly 17 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 104 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 89% of the year’s total.

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Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb00
Mar00
Apr10
May51
Jun134
Jul5010
Aug10413
Sep296
Oct41
Nov00
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Méhana, 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 May 25 and lasts for 1.5 months, ending around July 9. The clearest month is June, 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 10 and lasts for 2.3 months, ending around September 17. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 44% 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 · 86%Aug 20 · 54%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan8020
Feb8119
Mar7525
Apr7030
May7327
Jun8218
Jul7030
Aug5644
Sep7228
Oct8020
Nov7822
Dec8020

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 19, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 19, 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)
Jan11.27:286:42
Feb11.57:246:56
Mar11.97:087:02
Apr12.36:467:05
May12.76:327:12
Jun12.86:307:21
Jul12.86:387:24
Aug12.56:457:14
Sep12.16:476:52
Oct11.76:506:31
Nov11.37:016:20
Dec11.27:176:26

Sunny days

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

Méhana averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 10 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 1.2 months, from around Jun 1 to Jul 6. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 10 sunny days — about 50% fewer than the June peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1922 daysAug 1810 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan21Bright
Feb19Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr16Bright
May17Bright
Jun20Bright
Jul15Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep16Bright
Oct21Bright
Nov20Bright
Dec21Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around May 10 to October 17. 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 18 to May 9, and February 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 13 · 100%Jul 10 · 0%oppressivedryhumidmuggycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9810100
Apr75148300
May2522331920
Jun152557110
Jul00444510
Aug00010882
Sep121138471
Oct3714252130
Nov9631000
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 Méhana is typically light breeze, near 13 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Dec 1 to Apr 2. The windiest month is January, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 29 to Nov 30, with October the calmest month at about 11 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 6 · 15 km/hOct 17 · 11 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb15light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May13light breeze
Jun14light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug12light breeze
Sep12calm
Oct11calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Méhana

In seasonPeak

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

Méhana sees dust haze year-round, heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Méhana

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Méhana 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 Méhana 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 7 · 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
Feb3.6fair
Mar1.1poor
Apr0.0poor
May0.0poor
Jun0.6poor
Jul2.1poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep2.0poor
Oct1.1poor
Nov2.3poor
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 Méhana 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 7 · 8.7

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 Méhana, 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 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 April, Méhana sees daytime highs around 41°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Méhana 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 Méhana peaks around August 20 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highExtremeVery highAug 20UV 13Dec 16UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan9Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr10Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul9Very high
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct11Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Méhana

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)
Jan6.54.5
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr7.55.5
May7.55.5
Jun85.5
Jul85
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55
Nov6.54.5
Dec6.53.5

Air quality in Méhana 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 Méhana is worst in February — around 94 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.1× the cleanest month (August, 18 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1993 µg/m³Aug 1619 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan85Unhealthy
Feb94Unhealthy
Mar91Unhealthy
Apr69Unhealthy
May48Poor
Jun36Poor
Jul23Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep23Moderate
Oct44Poor
Nov56Unhealthy
Dec74Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Méhana 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. Méhana banks about 7,355 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)
Jan436
Feb475
Mar639
Apr711
May772
Jun709
Jul655
Aug605
Sep634
Oct680
Nov565
Dec473

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.

Méhana receives about 6.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.5 and 7.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Feb 23 to Jul 27. The brightest month is April, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.6 kWh/m² — roughly 22% less than the April peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 127.2 kWhDec 205.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.2Intense
May7.0Intense
Jun6.8Intense
Jul6.6Intense
Aug6.2Intense
Sep6.5Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.0Intense
Dec5.6Bright

Where is Méhana?

Méhana sits at 14.4°N, 1.1°E, 218 m above sea level, in Niger. The nearest listed city is Tillabéri, 40 km away.

DoriNiameyTorodiYouri KourtéréKollo

Topography around Méhana

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Méhana has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 51 m around an average of 221 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 112 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 176 m.

The land around Méhana is covered by grassland (55%) and cropland (25%) within 3 km, grassland (81%) within 16 km, and grassland (77%) within 80 km.

3 km
51 m
16 km
112 m
80 km
176 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Tillabéri 40 km · Ayorou 44 km · Téra 59 km · Dori 132 km · Niamey 144 km · Torodi 159 km · Youri Kourtéré 168 km · Kollo 178 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 Méhana (14.3939°, 1.1338°, elevation 218 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).