Climate and average weather in Richard-Toll

In Richard-Toll, the summers are sweltering, dry, and clear and the winters are hot and mostly clear.

Best: mid December to mid February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Richard-Toll typically varies from 18°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 43°C. May is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Richard-Toll for warm-weather activities is from mid December to mid February.

Hottest
May
39°
Coldest
Jan
18°
Wettest
Aug
59 mm
Driest
Apr
0 mm
Rain / yr
152 mm
23 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
16.5°N
Clearest
May
22% cloud

Richard-Toll is town in Senegal.

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

Richard-Toll 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 mid February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Richard-Toll stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is May, with an average high of 39°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 18°C and high of 31°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in April.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3118
Feb3319
Mar3521
Apr3721
May3923
Jun3824
Jul3625
Aug3526
Sep3626
Oct3825
Nov3623
Dec3320

How hot and cold Richard-Toll 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, Richard-Toll feels like about 42°C (around September 14). About 331 days a year carry some heat stress, and 135 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in September.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31311818
Feb33331919
Mar35352021
Apr37372121
May39392323
Jun40382424
Jul40362525
Aug41352626
Sep42362626
Oct39382525
Nov36362323
Dec33332020

Average hourly temperature in Richard-Toll

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 May afternoons, near 39°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 18°C.

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

Richard-Toll 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° / 18°40.311.15.5
Feb33° / 19°20.311.44.5
Mar35° / 21°00.111.93.0
Apr37° / 21°0012.41.9
May39° / 23°00.112.81.0
Jun38° / 24°20.3131.4
Jul36° / 25°122.312.92.7
Aug35° / 26°597.512.62.8
Sep36° / 26°558.312.12.3
Oct38° / 25°162.911.61.4
Nov36° / 23°10.211.22.6
Dec33° / 20°20.3114.6

Chance of rain

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

Richard-Toll gets about 152 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 3.3 months, from around Jul 16 to Oct 22, peaking in September at about 30% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Mar 10.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 59 mm over about 8 wet days; April is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetSep 1 · 30%Mar 10 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan10
Feb10
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun10
Jul72
Aug248
Sep278
Oct103
Nov10
Dec10

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Richard-Toll collects about 152 mm of rain across 23 wet days — roughly 13 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 59 mm, while April is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 85% of the year’s total.

0255075JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec420021259551612
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan40
Feb20
Mar00
Apr00
May00
Jun20
Jul122
Aug598
Sep558
Oct163
Nov10
Dec20

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Richard-Toll, 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 February 17 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around July 21. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 22 and lasts for 2.5 months, ending around October 5. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 46% 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 7 · 89%Aug 26 · 49%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb7129
Mar8218
Apr8515
May8713
Jun8614
Jul7426
Aug5446
Sep5941
Oct7129
Nov6040
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 9, brings about 13 hours of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.17:396:46
Feb11.47:347:01
Mar11.97:167:09
Apr12.46:527:14
May12.86:367:22
Jun13.06:347:32
Jul12.96:427:35
Aug12.66:507:24
Sep12.16:547:00
Oct11.66:596:36
Nov11.27:126:25
Dec11.07:286:30

Sunny days

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

Richard-Toll averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around Feb 19 to Jul 17. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is August, down near 11 sunny days — about 53% fewer than the May peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMay 824 daysAug 269 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar22Bright
Apr22Bright
May24Brilliant
Jun23Brilliant
Jul19Bright
Aug11Mixed
Sep13Mixed
Oct18Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec15Mixed

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 Richard-Toll, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around May 25 to October 26. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 27 to May 24, 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 17 · 99%Jul 20 · 0%miserablecomfortablehumidoppressivemuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9541000
Feb8983000
Mar78193000
Apr57357000
May313526700
Jun7112742120
Jul01332595
Aug00055639
Sep11284245
Oct21121621237
Nov731210310
Dec8963100

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 Richard-Toll is typically light breeze, near 16 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Dec 22 to Jul 22. The windiest month is April, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 23 to Dec 21, with September the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezyApr 25 · 19 km/hSep 18 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan17light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar18light breeze
Apr19light breeze
May19light breeze
Jun17light breeze
Jul17light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct14light breeze
Nov15light breeze
Dec16light breeze

Hazard calendar for Richard-Toll

In seasonPeak

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

Richard-Toll sits in the Atlantic hurricane belt; the season peaks August–October.

Richard-Toll 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 Richard-Toll

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Richard-Toll is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Richard-Toll for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid December to mid February, with a peak score in the third week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 15 · 5.7

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
Jan5.5fair
Feb4.5fair
Mar3.1poor
Apr1.9poor
May1.0poor
Jun1.4poor
Jul2.7poor
Aug2.8poor
Sep2.3poor
Oct1.5poor
Nov2.6poor
Dec4.6fair

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 Richard-Toll for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 18 · 8.3

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 Richard-Toll, 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 May (highs near 39°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 May, Richard-Toll sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Richard-Toll 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 Richard-Toll peaks around March 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 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 highExtremeVery highMar 18UV 13Dec 15UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan8Very high
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug11Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct9Very high
Nov8Very high
Dec7Very high

Average hourly UV index in Richard-Toll

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
Jul7.55
Aug85.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct74.5
Nov6.53.5
Dec63

Air quality in Richard-Toll 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 Richard-Toll is worst in January — around 115 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.7× the cleanest month (August, 31 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorPoorUnhealthyJan 24115 µg/m³Aug 1932 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan115Unhealthy
Feb115Unhealthy
Mar85Unhealthy
Apr73Unhealthy
May73Unhealthy
Jun83Unhealthy
Jul46Poor
Aug31Moderate
Sep38Poor
Oct59Unhealthy
Nov62Unhealthy
Dec105Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Richard-Toll 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. Richard-Toll banks about 6,936 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)
Jan455
Feb452
Mar556
Apr577
May640
Jun628
Jul633
Aug631
Sep626
Oct667
Nov574
Dec497

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.

Richard-Toll receives about 6.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 7.5 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Feb 25 to Aug 4. The brightest month is May, averaging about 7.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 33% less than the May peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 67.5 kWhDec 185.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb6.0Bright
Mar6.9Intense
Apr7.4Intense
May7.5Intense
Jun7.3Intense
Jul6.8Intense
Aug6.1Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct6.1Intense
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Richard-Toll?

Richard-Toll sits at 16.5°N, 15.7°W, 7 m above sea level, in Senegal. The nearest listed city is Dagana, 11 km away.

TékanePodorSaint-LouisLougaNdioumDara

Topography around Richard-Toll

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Richard-Toll has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 19 m around an average of 4 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 27 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 68 m.

The land around Richard-Toll is covered by cropland (40%) within 3 km, cropland (41%) and grassland (38%) within 16 km, and grassland (75%) within 80 km.

3 km
19 m
16 km
27 m
80 km
68 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Dagana 11 km · Rosso 12 km · Tékane 41 km · Podor 82 km · Saint-Louis 98 km · Louga 109 km · Ndioum 112 km · Dara 126 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 Richard-Toll (16.4625°, -15.7008°, 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). 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).