Climate and average weather in Gossas Village

In Gossas Village, 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 Gossas Village typically varies from 18°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 42°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 Gossas Village for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and early December to late December.

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Aug
25°
Wettest
Aug
171 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
425 mm
49 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
21 m
14.5°N
Clearest
Mar
27% cloud

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

Temperatures in Gossas Village stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 38°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 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 17°C) in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3318
Feb3519
Mar3720
Apr3821
May3822
Jun3624
Jul3425
Aug3225
Sep3224
Oct3524
Nov3521
Dec3319

How hot and cold Gossas Village 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, Gossas Village feels like about 41°C (around October 3). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 143 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
Feb35351919
Mar37372020
Apr38382121
May38382222
Jun40362424
Jul39342525
Aug40322525
Sep40322424
Oct40352424
Nov36352121
Dec33331919

Average hourly temperature in Gossas Village

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 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 25°C.

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

Gossas Village 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°30.211.24.6
Feb35° / 19°10.211.53.4
Mar37° / 20°00.111.92.1
Apr38° / 21°0012.31.4
May38° / 22°00.112.71.6
Jun36° / 24°71.512.82.4
Jul34° / 25°729.112.83.0
Aug32° / 25°17117.512.53.1
Sep32° / 24°1361512.13.3
Oct35° / 24°324.911.73.0
Nov35° / 21°10.311.32.9
Dec33° / 19°20.311.24.1

Chance of rain

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

Gossas Village gets about 425 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 3.7 months, from around Jun 30 to Oct 20, peaking in August at about 61% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 25.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 171 mm over about 18 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 27 · 61%Jan 25 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun62
Jul299
Aug5618
Sep4815
Oct175
Nov10
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gossas Village collects about 425 mm of rain across 49 wet days — roughly 35 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 171 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 89% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec310007721711363212
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan30
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun72
Jul729
Aug17118
Sep13615
Oct325
Nov10
Dec20

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gossas Village, 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 7 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around June 30. 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 July 1 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around October 9. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 79% 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 3 · 86%Aug 25 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb7129
Mar8119
Apr8317
May8020
Jun7030
Jul4258
Aug2179
Sep3466
Oct6337
Nov5941
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 June 16, brings about 12 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, 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)
Jan11.27:376:51
Feb11.57:337:05
Mar11.97:177:11
Apr12.36:557:14
May12.76:417:21
Jun12.86:397:30
Jul12.86:477:33
Aug12.56:547:23
Sep12.16:567:01
Oct11.76:596:40
Nov11.37:106:29
Dec11.27:266:35

Sunny days

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

Gossas Village 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 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Jan 4 to Jun 28. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 2 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the May peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMay 922 daysAug 241 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb17Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr21Bright
May21Bright
Jun16Bright
Jul7Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct15Mixed
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 Gossas Village, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around May 12 to November 8. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 9 to May 11, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 22 · 99%Jun 20 · 0%comfortablemiserableoppressivemuggydryhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9541000
Feb9082000
Mar77203000
Apr454013200
May1226362340
Jun011240452
Jul00096625
Aug00012970
Sep00001783
Oct337153339
Nov4320171261
Dec8396200

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 Gossas Village 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 2 to Jul 4. The windiest month is February, averaging about 14 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 5 to Dec 1, with September the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 25 · 14 km/hSep 23 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb14light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr13light breeze
May12light breeze
Jun12calm
Jul11calm
Aug9calm
Sep8calm
Oct8calm
Nov10calm
Dec12calm

Hazard calendar for Gossas Village

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Gossas Village

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Gossas Village 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 Gossas Village 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 12 · 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
Jan4.6fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar2.1poor
Apr1.4poor
May1.6poor
Jun2.4poor
Jul3.0poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.0poor
Nov2.9poor
Dec4.1fair

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 Gossas Village for hot-weather activities is from mid November to late February, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 16 · 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 Gossas Village, 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.

Gossas Village packs about the same all year — highs hold near 38°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, Gossas Village sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Gossas Village 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 Gossas Village peaks around March 19 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 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 18UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct10Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Gossas Village

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 Gossas Village 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 Gossas Village is worst in February — around 96 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.3× the cleanest month (August, 29 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyFeb 1494 µg/m³Aug 1930 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan84Unhealthy
Feb96Unhealthy
Mar79Unhealthy
Apr68Unhealthy
May63Unhealthy
Jun69Unhealthy
Jul42Poor
Aug29Moderate
Sep36Poor
Oct58Unhealthy
Nov61Unhealthy
Dec79Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gossas Village 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. Gossas Village banks about 6,690 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around June.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan476
Feb476
Mar579
Apr583
May614
Jun599
Jul601
Aug573
Sep551
Oct595
Nov545
Dec498

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.

Gossas Village receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 7.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 14 to Jul 9. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

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

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 37.4 kWhAug 254.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr7.3Intense
May7.3Intense
Jun6.9Intense
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct6.0Bright
Nov5.6Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Gossas Village?

Gossas Village sits at 14.5°N, 16.1°W, 21 m above sea level, in Senegal. The nearest listed city is Tiébo, 21 km away.

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Topography around Gossas Village

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gossas Village has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 21 m around an average of 20 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 36 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 64 m.

The land around Gossas Village is covered by cropland (65%) and grassland (31%) within 3 km, cropland (79%) within 16 km, and cropland (66%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
21 m
16 km
36 m
80 km
64 m
shrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Tiébo 21 km · Diourbel 23 km · Guinguinéo 30 km · Gandiaye 32 km · Poukham Un 35 km · Fatick 36 km · Kahone 37 km · Kaolack 37 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 Gossas Village (14.4841°, -16.1138°, elevation 21 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).