Climate and average weather in Dougnane

In Dougnane, the weather is sweltering, showery, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around August.

Best: early December to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dougnane typically varies from 17°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 39°C. November is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Dougnane for warm-weather activities is from early December to mid July.

Hottest
Nov
34°
Coldest
Aug
25°
Wettest
Aug
122 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
307 mm
39 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
86 m
15.0°N
Clearest
May
25% cloud

Dougnane is a village in Senegal.

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

Dougnane 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 December to mid July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dougnane stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is November, with an average high of 34°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 25°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in March.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3117
Feb3218
Mar3319
Apr3219
May3220
Jun3223
Jul3224
Aug3125
Sep3225
Oct3424
Nov3421
Dec3219

How hot and cold Dougnane 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, Dougnane feels like about 40°C (around October 4). About 305 days a year carry some heat stress, and 34 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in October.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31311717
Feb32321818
Mar33331819
Apr32321919
May33322020
Jun35322323
Jul36322424
Aug38312525
Sep39322525
Oct39342424
Nov35342121
Dec32321919

Average hourly temperature in Dougnane

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 November afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 25°C.

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

Dougnane 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°20.211.25.5
Feb32° / 18°20.211.55.1
Mar33° / 19°0011.94.9
Apr32° / 19°0012.35.3
May32° / 20°0012.75.4
Jun32° / 23°20.712.95.0
Jul32° / 24°406.112.84.5
Aug31° / 25°12213.812.53.8
Sep32° / 25°10812.612.13.9
Oct34° / 24°294.411.73.7
Nov34° / 21°10.211.33.6
Dec32° / 19°20.511.14.7

Chance of rain

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

Dougnane gets about 307 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 7 to Oct 20, peaking in August at about 52% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 26.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 122 mm over about 14 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 27 · 52%Jan 26 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun31
Jul196
Aug4414
Sep4113
Oct154
Nov10
Dec11

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dougnane collects about 307 mm of rain across 39 wet days — roughly 26 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 122 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 88% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec22002401221082912
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20
Feb20
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun21
Jul406
Aug12214
Sep10813
Oct294
Nov10
Dec21

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dougnane, 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 January 16 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around July 7. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 8 and lasts for 3.0 months, ending around October 5. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 71% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 9 · 87%Aug 25 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6436
Feb7129
Mar8218
Apr8416
May8416
Jun7723
Jul5446
Aug2971
Sep4258
Oct6733
Nov6040
Dec5743

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 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)
Jan11.27:416:53
Feb11.57:377:07
Mar11.97:207:14
Apr12.36:587:18
May12.76:437:25
Jun12.96:417:34
Jul12.86:497:37
Aug12.56:567:27
Sep12.16:597:04
Oct11.77:036:42
Nov11.37:146:32
Dec11.17:306:37

Sunny days

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

Dougnane averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Jan 11 to Jul 3. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 3 sunny days — about 86% fewer than the May peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMay 924 daysAug 272 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr22Bright
May23Bright
Jun19Bright
Jul10Mixed
Aug3Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct16Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec14Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around April 19 to November 9. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 10 to April 18, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 15 · 96%Jun 15 · 0%humidmiserableoppressivecomfortablemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan81135100
Feb672011100
Mar393426100
Apr93055500
May210453950
Jun00439551
Jul00077319
Aug00013663
Sep00001981
Oct224144038
Nov28162025101
Dec661412710

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 Dougnane is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Nov 27 to Jun 3. The windiest month is April, averaging about 18 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jun 4 to Nov 26, with September the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyApr 10 · 18 km/hSep 19 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan15light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr18light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul12light breeze
Aug11calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov13light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Dougnane

In seasonPeak

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

Dougnane sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Dougnane sees dust haze year-round, heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Dougnane

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, Dougnane 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 Dougnane for general outdoor tourist activities is from early December to mid July, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 18 · 5.6

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
Jan5.4fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar4.9fair
Apr5.3fair
May5.3fair
Jun5.0fair
Jul4.5fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep3.9fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Dougnane for hot-weather activities is from early October to late July, with a peak score in the second week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 9 · 8.5

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 Dougnane, 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.

Dougnane packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In November, Dougnane sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

Sea temperature near Dougnane

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 29 km away) is warmest in September at about 28°C and coldest in February near 19°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Apr 17 to Jan 26 — about 9.4 months when the water holds above 20°C.

20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan21Refreshing
Feb19Cool
Mar19Cool
Apr20Cool
May22Refreshing
Jun25Warm
Jul27Warm
Aug28Warm
Sep28Tropical
Oct28Tropical
Nov26Warm
Dec23Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Dougnane 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 Dougnane 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 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery highExtremeVery highMar 18UV 13Dec 16UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Dougnane

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
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct74.5
Nov6.54
Dec62.5

Air quality in Dougnane 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 Dougnane is worst in February — around 104 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.8× the cleanest month (August, 37 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyFeb 8104 µg/m³Aug 1838 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan103Unhealthy
Feb104Unhealthy
Mar80Unhealthy
Apr60Unhealthy
May57Unhealthy
Jun74Unhealthy
Jul49Poor
Aug37Poor
Sep45Poor
Oct66Unhealthy
Nov69Unhealthy
Dec96Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dougnane 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. Dougnane banks about 6,088 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around October.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan445
Feb423
Mar483
Apr461
May497
Jun520
Jul560
Aug560
Sep545
Oct584
Nov531
Dec480

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.

Dougnane receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.1 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Feb 18 to Jul 15. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 47.4 kWhDec 185.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.4Intense
Jun7.0Intense
Jul6.1Intense
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct6.0Intense
Nov5.6Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Dougnane?

Dougnane sits at 15.0°N, 16.9°W, 86 m above sea level, in Senegal. The nearest listed city is Tivaouane, 6.0 km away.

Topography around Dougnane

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dougnane has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 37 m around an average of 75 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 126 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 145 m.

The land around Dougnane is covered by cropland (56%) and grassland (31%) within 3 km, grassland (51%) and cropland (35%) within 16 km, and water (35%), cropland (34%) and grassland (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
37 m
16 km
126 m
80 km
145 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Tivaouane 6.0 km · Thiès 20 km · Mboro 20 km · Thiès Nones 22 km · Kayar 27 km · Kbombole 28 km · Khombole 29 km · Pout 29 km

Senegal travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / D / E / K
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 36% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,955
2025
Happiness
4.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
27%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.3
per 100k, 2015
Road deaths
23.5
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 442
Religion
Muslim 97%Christian 3%

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 Dougnane (14.9586°, -16.87°, elevation 86 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. 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).