Climate and average weather in Fatick

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

Best: early January to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Fatick typically varies from 18°C to 37°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 41°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Fatick for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and early December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
37°
Coldest
Aug
25°
Wettest
Aug
196 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
478 mm
56 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
14.3°N
Clearest
Mar
26% cloud

Fatick is commune of Senegal.

Density
2,459/km²
people per km²

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

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

Temperatures in Fatick stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 37°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 25°C and high of 32°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3318
Feb3419
Mar3620
Apr3721
May3622
Jun3424
Jul3325
Aug3225
Sep3225
Oct3425
Nov3521
Dec3319

How hot and cold Fatick 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, Fatick feels like about 41°C (around October 7). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 69 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in October.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331818
Feb34341919
Mar36362020
Apr37372121
May37362222
Jun38342424
Jul38332525
Aug39322525
Sep40322525
Oct41342425
Nov36352121
Dec33331919

Average hourly temperature in Fatick

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 37°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 25°C.

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

Fatick 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
Jan33° / 18°20.211.24.7
Feb34° / 19°10.211.53.6
Mar36° / 20°00.111.92.4
Apr37° / 21°0012.32.1
May36° / 22°00.112.72.7
Jun34° / 24°61.412.83.7
Jul33° / 25°7710.312.83.6
Aug32° / 25°19619.312.53.2
Sep32° / 25°15017.112.13.3
Oct34° / 25°426.311.73.4
Nov35° / 21°10.311.33.2
Dec33° / 19°20.311.24.3

Chance of rain

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

Fatick gets about 478 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.7 months, from around Jul 1 to Oct 21, peaking in August at about 67% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 27.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 196 mm over about 19 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 27 · 67%Jan 27 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun51
Jul3310
Aug6219
Sep5517
Oct226
Nov20
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Fatick collects about 478 mm of rain across 56 wet days — roughly 40 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 196 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 89% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec21006771961504212
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun61
Jul7710
Aug19619
Sep15017
Oct426
Nov10
Dec20

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Fatick, 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 10 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around June 29. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 30 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around October 10. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 78% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 2 · 86%Aug 24 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6436
Feb7228
Mar8119
Apr8317
May8020
Jun6931
Jul4357
Aug2278
Sep3466
Oct6238
Nov5842
Dec5842

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 27, 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)
Jan11.27:386:52
Feb11.57:347:06
Mar11.97:187:12
Apr12.36:567:15
May12.76:427:22
Jun12.86:417:31
Jul12.86:487:34
Aug12.56:557:24
Sep12.16:587:02
Oct11.77:006:41
Nov11.37:116:31
Dec11.27:276:36

Sunny days

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

Fatick averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Jan 5 to Jun 26. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the April peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantApr 123 daysAug 271 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr21Bright
May21Bright
Jun16Bright
Jul7Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct14Mixed
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 Fatick, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around May 5 to November 13. 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 14 to May 4, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 97% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 17 · 99%Jun 14 · 0%miserablecomfortableoppressivemuggydryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8892000
Feb81145000
Mar57329100
Apr204527800
May4173236110
Jun00526635
Jul00035641
Aug00001882
Sep0000793
Oct02292759
Nov22212021115
Dec691610500

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 Fatick is typically calm, near 11 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Dec 5 to Jul 7. The windiest month is March, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 8 to Dec 4, with September the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 31 · 14 km/hSep 28 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb13light breeze
Mar14light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun12calm
Jul11calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Fatick

In seasonPeak

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

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

Fatick sees seasonal dust haze (January–October), heaviest in June.

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

Best time to visit Fatick

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 10 · 4.8

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
Jan4.7fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar2.4poor
Apr2.1poor
May2.7poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.4poor
Nov3.2poor
Dec4.3fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Fatick for hot-weather activities run from mid May to mid July and again from mid October to early March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 17 · 8.0

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 Fatick, 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.

Fatick packs about the same all year — highs hold near 37°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 April, Fatick sees daytime highs around 37°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

Sea temperature near Fatick

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 56 km away) is warmest in October at about 29°C and coldest in March near 19°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Apr 16 to Feb 5 — about 9.7 months when the water holds above 20°C.

20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan21Refreshing
Feb20Cool
Mar19Cool
Apr20Cool
May22Refreshing
Jun26Warm
Jul28Warm
Aug28Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct29Tropical
Nov27Warm
Dec24Refreshing

UV index (midday) in Fatick 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 Fatick peaks around March 19 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 19UV 13Dec 17UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7High

Average hourly UV index in Fatick

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
Oct75
Nov6.54
Dec63

Air quality in Fatick 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 Fatick is worst in February — around 105 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.2× the cleanest month (August, 33 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorPoorUnhealthyFeb 10104 µg/m³Aug 1834 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan100Unhealthy
Feb105Unhealthy
Mar84Unhealthy
Apr66Unhealthy
May60Unhealthy
Jun71Unhealthy
Jul46Poor
Aug33Moderate
Sep41Poor
Oct66Unhealthy
Nov76Unhealthy
Dec96Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Fatick 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. Fatick banks about 6,556 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)
Jan472
Feb469
Mar563
Apr560
May583
Jun570
Jul585
Aug568
Sep553
Oct595
Nov543
Dec494

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.

Fatick receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 13 to Jul 7. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 31% less than the May peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 27.3 kWhAug 264.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.4Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.2Intense
Jun6.8Intense
Jul5.7Bright
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.9Bright
Nov5.6Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Fatick?

Fatick sits at 14.3°N, 16.4°W, 7 m above sea level, in Senegal. The nearest listed city is Poukham Un, 3.0 km away.

TiéboDiourbelKaolackBambey

Topography around Fatick

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Fatick has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 11 m around an average of 3 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 21 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 131 m.

The land around Fatick is covered by grassland (32%) and cropland (27%) within 3 km, cropland (47%) and grassland (29%) within 16 km, and cropland (56%) within 80 km.

3 km
11 m
16 km
21 m
80 km
131 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Poukham Un 3.0 km · Gandiaye 17 km · Thiadiaye 34 km · Gossas Village 36 km · Tiébo 38 km · Diourbel 39 km · Kaolack 41 km · Bambey 41 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 Fatick (14.3324°, -16.4051°, elevation 7 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).